Showing posts with label electra glide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electra glide. Show all posts

Friday, March 16, 2012

1967 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide - Now Showing, New Bit HIt

1967 Electra Glide - more luxurious, more powerful than ever. New diaphragm carb with Power Pak heads boost hp 5%. Wheel bearings are sealed and lubricated for life. New automatic reset circuit breaker. New action accent...When they say go first class they mean Go Harley-Davidson...

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Friday, December 9, 2011

1976 Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide FLH 1200 - His Majesty the Hog

Cover: 1977 Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide FLH 1200 - His Majesty the Hog - the largest, longest, lowest, heaviest, toughest load-haulin' super cruiser of the tourers. The Electra Glide, King of the Highway.

Road Tests: Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide, KTM 400; Features: Getting High with the Mototek CDI - more revs for the Honda CR125; More Spark for your Z-1 - Gerex Multifire CDI; 125 US GP; Ladies Day at Indian Dunes - Women MX Championship; Super Bowl - an Ellis instant replay; Albuquerque Mile; ISDT Preview; The Old Gas-Bag trick - a cheap how-to that works; more

KTM400 CR-125

1976 October Motorcyclist Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com

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Friday, July 22, 2011

1972 Harley-Davidson 74 Electra Glide - The Machine

Contents: Harley-Davidson 74 Electra Glide - The Machine; Lightweight Tests: Rickman 125 Metisse, Harley-Davidson Shortster Mini-Bike; Metal Treating Processes; Saddleback Caps Trans AMA Series; Europe's off-road riding problems; Special Custom Section: Hollywood Six; Showroom Sportster; Flashback Four; Dean's List Honda; Skill School - see what you can learn about trials; Bart Markel; more

1972 March Motorcyclist Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com













Wednesday, February 9, 2011

1966 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Tour Test - Big Daddy gets a fairing!

Photos: A picturesque Dutch windmill at the Danish town of Solvang; Side view shows the great power plant of the FLH Electra Glide with enclosed battery, chromed cover over the exhaust pipe, gear shift lever, clutch linkage and adjustable foot peg for rear passenger. Folding foot rest on the crash bar permits the rider to change foot position; The "goody box" atop the rear luggage carrier is quickly removable as are the large Pak-King panniers. Note nacelles for taillights on the box; Two fastening brackets on each side anchor the Wixom fairing to the front forks. Underside of the fairing is nicely finished; Howard Hayford, service manager; Len Russell, partner with Dick Hutchins; and Sandy Lynch, sales magager at Rich Budelier Harley-Davidson Sales, Los Angeles, pose with the tour-test Electra-Glide and its new Wixom fairing beside the company's sales room; Dean Wixom photographed at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley in October 1965. The fairing shown is an earlier model without dished sides.

1966 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Tour Test -Big Daddy gets a fairing! 4-Pg Article available at www.DadsVintageAds.com















Wednesday, October 6, 2010

1972 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide - His Majesty.

A living legend. Classic elegance and disc-braked safety in a machine great enough to meet the expectations of a special kind of man. Electra Glide...the King. AMF Harley-Davidson, Milwaukee.

1972 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide - His Majesty. Ad available at www.DadsVintageAds.com












Tuesday, August 10, 2010

1973 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra Glide - you just know this one is made in America

Cover: Harley-Davidson FLH Electra Glide

Contents: Road Tests: Harley-Davidson FLH Electra Glide, Honda CR125-M Elsinore, Yamaha TX500, Yamaha RD60 and 80 GT1 Mini Cycles; Technical: Water-Cooling - is it the wave of the future?; Competition: This is the ISDT; Road Atlanta; Isle of Man TT; Features: Kid on a Cota - Marland Whaley; Taiwan - the new Japan?; more

1973 September Cycle World Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue - Harley-Davidson available at www.DadsVintageAds.com












Wednesday, June 16, 2010

1978 Harley-Davidson FLH80 Electra Glide Road Test / Specifications

Harley-Davidson is not one of those factories that rushes headlong into innovation. The FLH-80 is clearly a derivative of the veteran 74 ohv which in its turn (1941 model year) was a derivative of the popular 61 ohv which dates back to 1936...there have of course been modifications great and small over the years, most of them admirable and directed towards endless miles of trouble-free motoring, so that the FLH of today sports such features as hydraulic tappets, a proper clutch, and a wear index that put other manufacturers in the shade...

1978 Harley-Davidson FLH80 Electra Glide Road Test / Specs 5-Page Article available at www.DadsVintageAds.com














Sunday, March 21, 2010

1972 Opinion: BMW R-60 vs. Moto Guzzi 750 vs. Harley-Davidson Electra Glide





It seems that L.S. Van Orden (or Luke as he is known to his friends) also is known to be a "brand-switcher". He has gone through three different makes in just about as many years. Now he has summed up his opinions...here is the gospel according to Luke...

1972 Opinion: BMW R-60 vs. Moto Guzzi 750 vs. H-D Electra Glide 4-Page Article available at www.DadsVintageAds.com


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1972 Coast to Coast and back on a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide





If you're looking for a completely unbiased, thoroughly objective report on the 1972 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide - keep looking. This ain't it!....I left liking it, I liked it before I ever sat the saddle...

1972 Coast to Coast & back on a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide 11-Page Article available at www.DadsVintageAds.com


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

1972 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Test: Coast to Coast and Back







Cover: Electra Glide crossing a draw bridge over the Halifax River

Contents: Roughing it with a motorcycle camper; Haywagons, "Hedgehogs" and barechested Polizja! - Bike Touring in Poland; On buying a used bike; Supergliders sound off; Challenge - the first California 1000; 3-4=1 Relative Merits or demerits of BMW R60, Moto Guzzi 750 & H-D Electra Glide; The Cycle World Show; Coast to coast and back - Rode Test - Harley-Davidson Electra Glide; more

1972 June Road Rider Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue - Harley-Davidson available at www.DadsVintageAds.com in the " Motorcycle Magazines" category


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