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In Reply to: RE: One picture is worth... posted by 1973shovel on November 28, 2016 at 16:49:30
You think that was an odd description then you should have seen it in real life. The knobs stuck out too far and there was no real face plate - just knobs and buttons. And the tuning dial was on top. Fugly it was but cute.
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I can see why the H-K designers thought the dual dial was a good idea.
They should have put an FM dial on the underside too, for those drunken nights when someone ended up on the floor.
The top of the line citation receiver shares the same top and front dials. Not too many around. A friend has a mint one. Dual power supplies. A beauty of a receiver.
David
1947
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Nice Knucklehead! I have a soft spot for them, but doubt I will ever be able to afford one now. My 1200 Sportster will get me down the road though. A friend of mine had a Knucklehead on a softball frame. (This was in the 70's when people built bikes to ride!) I've liked them ever since.
Dave
I'm guessing you wrote "softail" frame, and it changed it on you. Although, after riding my friend's rigid frame Panhead all day, a soft ball frame would have made things easier on my "boys"
Boy did the auto-correct get me there. I was thinking softail when I was typing. In retrospect, I now remember that it was actually a lowrider. This was the 70's and a lot of the 70's was a blur to me! Another friend of mine had a rigid panhead chopper. I did not envy him on long rides!
Dave
That's a fine looking Knucklehead, Mikey!
I've only been on one once, and that was as a passenger. A bunch of us were camping one weekend, many years ago. Double D showed up with his sidecar equipped Knuckle, a 1930 something. One afternoon, after a few too many beers, he offered me a sidecar ride.
Never one to say "no", I hopped in, and we hit the road. I don't think the sidecar tire touched the ground more than a few times on the entire ride. Mostly he had me tipped up, about seven feet in the air, flying down the road, doing about 85 MPH.
Loved it!
Exactly.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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