The American Iconic motorcycle company that hired some German CEO who could have made MG-42’s in sidecars an option……. but gave us donations to help kids change genders instead…. says you don’t need a full ball bearings on both cams.
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We all know it’s better.
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We all know it was never about Harley Davidson.
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It’s about taking something born flawed and making it great.
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Like making the wilderness into the greatest nation in history.
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Like rebuilding masculinity in a mentally and chemically castrated post-modernist dystopia.
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This machine has been through a lot since my brother bought her after overcoming an amputation and crossing the rainbow bridge a few years later.
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It could kill you they say.
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Who would not risk death for something they love?
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Are they asking if I do not realize that for 29 years I have conquered death?
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If I die tomorrow nearly all the experiences that made life worth living were with these machines.
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They speak of death as if avoiding it by never living is preferable
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She gains scars with me. They heal together.
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Every time she fails she comes back stronger, the lessons incorporated.
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Some are born AMF bikes.
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Some are born hot forged crankshaft 99-02 Twin Cams with tapered timken main bearings.
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Regardless of our birth, if we are still around we are survivors and probably better than we started.
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No matter who we are there’s a cam chain tensioner we have to upgrade.
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At any time the best of us could lose our grip on a lifter and have to split our Evo cases.
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Most cannot understand, but these motorcycles are not things.
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They are us
The Proud Tribalist 