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Well over last weekend there was a poker run to raise money for a local fire department.  Its one of the bigger ones in the area and me and about 8-10 friends decided to go out on the run.   It was pretty sweet.  Altogether I believe there must have been 450 bikes in this run.

As we took off in the morning and through out all the towns we went there were people out in lawns and on the streets just watching us all go by and waving.  

 

Had some great food both at the eagles when we left and at our first stop in Kilkenny (Liquor Hole).  Then we drove to Elysiah (The thirsty Beave), Union Hill, and then back to Eagles in Shakopee.  Was a total of 160+ miles for this particular run. 

A couple weeks ago was another we had gone on that was a charity run for Suicide prevention, and then of course the pullman run to benefit a family.  This Saturday I believe we are going to the open house/Party at American Thunder.  Should be a good time, free food, drink, contests, and burn out contest.  Will have a few pictures to show after that.

Not a very good picture of my bike but will do for now.  I have spent a lot of time on it since I bought her new in April and now I am working on the final stages of the Stage 1 Kit.   Air Cleaner is probably only thing I have left.   So far I have chromed out the Pegs/Grips, added a drag bar which I internally wired, braided break line, New D&D Exhaust, and new chromed Kuryakyn LED flashers.   The stock flashers were  pretty plain jane, along with the fact they like to burn out quite a bit due to vibration I would imagine. 

Spring is around the corner and I am getting the itch.   So I have been out motorcycle shopping.  Found my self at the Wild Prairie Harley Davidson grand opening this past weekend.   I finally decided I am going to get the Dyna Low Rider, new of course.   I demo’ed the first available demo’s this weekend.  I rode both a Dyna Low Rider and a Softail Deluxe.   Both rode fairly well the dyna vibrated more at an idle but smoothed out very nicely once you took off.   This is due to the rubber mounted engines.   The Softail was pretty uniform in vibration all around, but you could feel more of the road due to the suspension having the under side mounted shocks.  The Dyna has side mounted ones.   So this week I will be doing the finalizing to hopefully have the bike next weekend.

 For those curious based no some information I have gathered up, it looks like dealers get a 21% markup from cost at sticker price.  This gives a guy some good negotiation room.  I wouldnt expect more then 10% off the sticker price though.   Can’t wait to get back out on the bikes this year.