My only experience of a Harley was short, it was a heavy lump of a 70`s Sportster with twin discs that were outperformed by the little drum brakes on BSA B40 I owned at the time, the engine had torque a plenty but with that weight and such poor brakes a sporting machine it was not.. Though being such a slow revving engine I can well believe it would cruise on and on and on...Whereas in my yoof we revved the nuts of everything.

I was interested in all m/cycles and in my teens wrote to Fred Warr in London as at the time he was the only person that seemed to have dealings with Harley in the UK and he had quite a few ex military Harleys that he restored in the sixties...

My pal was a Triumph/Honda dealer, and I remember the first unit construction oil in frame Trumpets (72 ?) arriving in his workshop leaking like sieves from the base of the barrels, Triumph sent up this new orange goo to resolve the issue and that was the first time I came across silicone sealant, which was a cut above the Hermatite red and green that one would see slobbered all over old Trumpet rocker cases etc. etc. etc... Happy days right enough..