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Posted by Aimee.L
- May 16, 2017, 20:12:05 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on May 16, 2017, 20:07:59 PMAimee go out and get stainless steel acorn nuts for your floorboards, these will be super for you when you corner you can scrape them along and they give a really good spark shower and people will back off from following to close....lol........
Bahahahah, thanks for the tip! Lol
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 16, 2017, 20:07:59 PMAimee go out and get stainless steel acorn nuts for your floorboards, these will be super for you when you corner you can scrape them along and they give a really good spark shower and people will back off from following to close....lol........
Posted by Aimee.L
- May 16, 2017, 19:45:11 PMQuote from: 2beers on May 16, 2017, 11:03:45 AM...shaving that seat will help, Aimee! I've been through lowering 2" front and back, plus a custom seat... Perfect now! 3" lowering was just too much, unable to do parking lot speed bumps, unable to make turns at more than a crawl without dragging points on the frame
. )
Back to the original post...Here in GA we've had some beautiful riding weather lately, and a few days that were 'almost' too warm mixed in already.
--The Bride
Yes I'm hoping to only have to do the seat. I'm used to riding a bike with a ton of corner clearance so if really like to avoid lowering it if I can. I've never scraped so I'm still terrified too. lol
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 16, 2017, 19:04:34 PM Well up north here the snow has melted and seems that our spring is not going to happen anytime soon we will go right into Summer. I have gotten out a few times and the bike is running really well, geewago, my Drifter is the coldest hearted bike I have ever owned, but once it is warmed up man does it run well. I am so looking forward to some decent weather, and then in July hosting Rendezvous:
http://drift-in.org/on2017.html
then in Aug I am heading to PEI (Prince Edward Island) and the Cabot Trail, once again and visiting with Mike and Lorraine....oh mikeakafred and Driftingal............
Posted by Tfrank59
- May 16, 2017, 18:25:58 PMNice to hear of an Indian owner who's also a Drifter guy! I also have another bike--Honda 1500 Valkyrie--that I consider my main girl, but the Drifter (I call her Skinny) is my run-around-town bike, so much fun, handles like a dream, gets tons of compliments. Last season some guy (who I'm pretty sure thought it's an Indian) asked at a red light, "Hey, beautiful bike! How much are those things?" I held up three digits, which (based on his frown) he took to mean 30k, but I clarified was closer to 3k 
Posted by geewago
- May 16, 2017, 16:16:19 PMHere in Texas (Waco) we can ride most of the year. But I try to avoid rain. Don't like that stuff on a bike. My Drifter has around 26,000 on it now. Probably need to tune my carb up a bit as it is somewhat cold natured. But after 30 miles or so it runs like a scared turkey. I just ride it every once in a while as I spend most of my time on the seat of my Indian Chieftain. It's my Cadillac. My drifter is my Chevy.
Posted by Tfrank59
- May 16, 2017, 12:17:10 PMQuote from: Aimee.L on May 16, 2017, 08:28:20 AMI'm new to the group. I just got a 2005 Drifter 800. Thankfully we have some nice weather coming this week in NH. Hopefully my Drifter will be ready in time. I am getting the seat shaved so that I can touch the ground a bit better. Lol short leg problems!
Great looking bike--Love the driver backrest!
Posted by 2beers
- May 16, 2017, 11:03:45 AM...shaving that seat will help, Aimee! I've been through lowering 2" front and back, plus a custom seat... Perfect now! 3" lowering was just too much, unable to do parking lot speed bumps, unable to make turns at more than a crawl without dragging points on the frame . )
Back to the original post...Here in GA we've had some beautiful riding weather lately, and a few days that were 'almost' too warm mixed in already.
--The Bride
Posted by Aimee.L
- May 16, 2017, 08:28:20 AMI'm new to the group. I just got a 2005 Drifter 800. Thankfully we have some nice weather coming this week in NH. Hopefully my Drifter will be ready in time. I am getting the seat shaved so that I can touch the ground a bit better. Lol short leg problems!
Posted by mittico68
- May 16, 2017, 01:53:35 AMHere in my county actually the weather is really fine: 20 C° (68 F°) already at 8 AM.
But it's been a long and really cold winter... it's been snowing even in my town (BTW: I live in Italy, in a seaside town)...
During those many cold w.ends I've been busy makin' some mods to ma-deuce.
If you like to see the results, go to my gallery over this forum and look at the links.
Keep on ridin'!
Posted by Tfrank59
- May 16, 2017, 00:44:27 AMJust making conversation. where you guys been? what's new with your drifter? I've barely been able to ride mine. Our Pacific Northwest weather has really been uncooperative so far in 2017. I added a small rack to my rear fender because well I had nowhere to put stuff and at least need to be able to bungee down my lunch or if it gets hot eventually in the afternoons here I'll probably put my jacket and chaps on there. Anyway I hope to get some good riding in the next week or so as we're supposed to dry out eventually maybe hopefully. Ride safe.
Here's the fender rack...