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Not so much fun, but interesting. We were hoping to get to a lake and national park near Eğirdir when the bike started to feel unstable and bouncing around in ways that it should not. We stopped to investigate and found a load of broken spokes in the rear wheel.

Not good, and less so given we were hundreds of miles from home. We walked a mile or so to a local Sanayi, (industrial area) and found a bike mechanic. A father, son and grandson affair. This was going to be fun, they’d never seen a Harley before, but anyway, they recovered the bike to their place and took a look. They had spokes that would fit, were the right size and the elder mechanic seemed to seemed to know what he was doing and obviously thought he could re-spoke the wheel.

They had never seen a belt drive,...

See if you can read this article. I scan'd it from the latest Cycle World rag. I found it pretty entertaining.

O.k. so the old lady buys a 1999 883 hugger with about 5000 miles on it and we have a rocker box gasket leak on the front cylinder.I am hearing that this is pretty common for this bike.I bought some "jims" gaskets for it and will be doing the job ourselves.It looks pretty stright forward and we probabaly wont do the job until this winter.My question is do I put anything on the gaskets such as grease or gasket maker or anything like that?
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So the new super duper Iphone 5 has turned most of Portland into a park, and the Hoover Dam into a roller coaster ride! Seems the map program is screwy.

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Not a fish tale

Video proves it: Fishermen found finger in a fish - KPTV - FOX 12