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I pulled the battery out and took it in the house. It's not quite 2 years old, but no sense making it sit out in the cold if I'm not going anywhere soon.

It's been over a week since I rode it, mostly because of road salt. They started putting it down before last week when we got 4" of the white stuff. Over the past 2 days they just doubled down with the salt spray for this current snow chance. It will probably be another week before it is clear enough to go out again. 60's and even 70's coming, with some rain. Got to love this NC WX.

I even pulled a boner and drove my car for about 2 miles on the main drag yesterday. Pin striped road the whole way. I hate it when that happens. I forgot to stick to the back roads where they don't spray.
 

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I haven't done a very good job of taking pictures but the fender is ready for paint, the struts and mounts are ready for powder and last weekend I past the point of now return on cutting off the original mounts. I have a Le Pera Spring solo to get mounted next.


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There was the second time. I'm not sure why there wasn't initially.
Probably operator error.
 

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This is where you can post about the upgrades you do, or day trips you make. Anything not deserving of its own thread. You can show off your mods, or post a photo or two of the ride you took.

This in not a how-to area. But if someone posts a mod, its OK to ask how they did it. It is also not the place to post your 10 to 20 vacation photos, that would deserve a thread of its own in the proper area of the forum.
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I've been chasing some noises my '07 Dyna Street Bob's been making for quite a while. Some of the noise, like a metal-on-metal sharp crack sound were probably due to worn fork tubes and bushes, which I've since replaced. Other noises sounded like a tin can full of marbles being shaken. The noises were produced when I rode over uneven surfaces and seemed to be coming from the front end. Since I had already replaced the fork tubes and bushings, and had the fork stem adjusted to spec per the "flop test," and I couldn't find anything loose on the bike, I was getting ready to pull the fork stem apart to check the bearings. A friend of mine come over to check one of my other bikes, but took a look at the Dyna and noticed that my (stock) shift linkage had quite a bit of slop. He mentioned that if the shift linkage is loose, the primary case can effectively amplify that sound and can sound like a rattling bucket of bolts.

I found a replacement shift linkage with Heim joints at each end at the Dennis Kirk site, and ordered it, which was here in two days. After I removed the OEM (and cheesy) linkage and installed the Alloy Arts linkage, I took the bike for a ride and found that about 90% of the noises I had been hearing were no longer there.

Here's the Alloy Arts shift linkage. You can adjust the length by turning the middle section. Very nice product and much improvement over the OEM part.
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Here's the OEM shift linkage I replaced. No adjustment, and the ball ends were loose in the connecting rod.
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Changed my crank case fluid. I usually been 75/140 Lucas gear oil full synthetic. But this time I found a QT of 80/140 Hardrive full synthetic gear oil amongst all my fluid shelf and don't remember when I purchased it so in it went. Went for a short ride to recheck the level and low and behold...didn't have the drop into 1st gear clunk! Will be riding tommow and can't wait to see if that continues.
 
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