I have rode motorcycles since 1970. Of all that I have had the 1975 Harley Davidson Super Glide would be at the top of the list. Number 2 would be the 1971 Honda CB 750 K I had. It had an 836 kit in it and a header It would roughly run with the KZ Kawasaki's of the day.
Other bikes that I should have kept was a 1976 BMW R90S. I bought this for $1500 from a lodge buddy. It had about 2500 miles on it. Toaster tank, brown in color and cool. I also picked up a 1977 Harley Davidson Low Rider. In that grey color they only offered. It was cool too. But dad says that the garage is not a motorcycle store. And I need to go down to one. Hard choice with all of these nice pieces.
I sold the Honda CB750 to a buddy for $1000. Good deal for him. I sold the Low Rider for $2500. Outch. I sold the BMW for $1800 (worth about $20,000 now.) What a beating.
So the one I kept was the 1975 Harley Super Glide. It did not let me down. Never left me sitting anywhere. Always made it to where I was going. Really classic design. Rode nice and was fast. What else would you want from a motorcycle. Did I mention that it got great fuel mileage?
1975 was the last year for a Bendix carb. It had a primary and secondary stage. Like a four barrel carb on a car. I had it balanced, blueprinted, ported and polished. They she really ran. Had it set up with the two into one header that Harley started using in 1976. Nice and quite. And faster.
As a ground breaker my buddies started buying Harley Davidson motorcycles. But they had the later carbs and would smoke and belch. The old Bendix did not and did burn very clean. Even better with 110 octane aviation fuel.
I liked all my bikes, but had used the 1975 Super Glide the most.
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