Did I Make This 260HP Harley Davidson Road King More Dangerous? 

Its cool that he lets Harley work with him and films it which further pushes their brand

~advertising~ . harley spends a LOT of money on it.. a LOT.. and passes the cost on to you! enjoy the added value!

That’s how companies work 🤷‍♂️

Just get franchise permission. not Harley 's

Harley the company has been awesome to work with. Appilachain as a dealer has also been awesome to with!

Wish I could like this comment twice🤙

Hahahaaa !!!

Only time will tell, it's still a Harley

​@@The_Bearded_Mechanic...You wish you could like it once. Poor fool doesn't know the reliability of a motorcycle when a chain comes off the sprockets.

​@@ballockybill2277....Google wants me to translate that to English! How screwed are we when programming can't handle LAUGHTER?

Yes , we're all aware of what an umlaut is .. Craig is from rural Pennsylvania, so we cut him some slack when he mispronounces words or misspeaks ...

ÖH

That’s awesome! I fly aeroplanes too

No way??? What you fly?

Currently going to AMT school to be an aircraft technician (I’m 18)

A man of many talents I see lol thats awesome!@@The_Bearded_Mechanic

You know a channel is great when it has crossover viewers

Neato. You tell Half Truths and get likes and a heart from the guy who has honed his skills feeding farm animals. The bike isn't Done. They didn't shop for the right parts, the new parts required the alteration of painted parts, longer brake lines, and they Cross-Threaded Bolts while doing it. I think you need a new yard stick to measure "knowledge." You should know that "fun wrenching" is simply taking apart what someone else just put together, to spec, and making it worse. Straight line stability doesn't apply differently to a drag strip and a highway. Overtightening the bearings in a steering assembly is the redneck version of adding a Steering Damper. Had enough knowledge?

@@leviathanr53 Do his Bible verses trigger you? 🤣

Did your weekend project run into Monday, too?

@vicepride2568...The challenge isn't getting Mechanics to work well together. It's getting the customers, management, engineers, and Corporate types to see things Logically, like Mechanics do. This machine now guzzles Race Gas (smells fast) and will never see the open road again, unless from a trailer. 😢 Quite the compromise for a new born machine that Harley has made multiple compromises to keep it a Highway Lazy-Boy.

@kevintaylor31 that is impressive the Rocket 3 is a moster of a bike to start with. Love to see how it turns out. Good luck fella

Do it! Let me know how you make out. Not all air chucks will work without the valve core, just a heads up👍

Well, not quite to H2 levels, but getting closer with the additional $20k. Nothing like spending $75k to get lesser performance than a $20k H2.

I mean even a $5K K6 GSXR has 180hp 🤷🏼‍♂️ it’s like buying a Dodge Caravan and then spending 3X it’s value to get the HP of a stock 5.0L Mustang. HP obsessed Harley guys are a strange animal.

​@@dbk81 Like hotrodders and grassroots racers have been doing for decades? Crazy ain't it?

But the japanese bikes wont be as comfortable riding across the country.

Appalachian Harley Davidson that’s the closest one to me love that place always great customer service

@philp1072...Have that HD starter rebuilt locally. A few cheap parts and an hour labor and your Original Harley part stays with you. I know nothing of the reliability of H.D. fuel pumps, nor their aftermarket equivalents, so I will leave that for someone else to comment on.

^^^What he said ^^^

Holy crap, you could pull a 30’ travel trailer!

Is it supposed to be pronounced like "OOhlins" or "Owlins"?

No, none of them. If you press your lips together, like when you kiss someone. Then you push the air out. Then maybe it will be an Ö. Difficult to explain in a good way.🤔

@@stefanbergvall3268 I tried it. I'm starting to think us Americans are missing some mouth and throat muscles, the rest of the world has. We have some vocal deficits or something.

Haha, keep practice👍

Dan is the best!

@The_Bearded_Mechanic you've got that right, and I love your channel, Craig 👏🏽👏🏽

Buy the tire thats going to give you the best grip in wet weather cause laying a bike down is more expensive than replacing a tire once a year or so.

You spelled overpriced wrong.

That's a aftermarket tensioner all the new HD have belt drive and don't use that tensioner . My 86 HD FLHT has belt drive . With this engine making 260 hp no way in hell is a belt going to stay on it ever . I remember in the 80s some guys with custom built bikes with the Evolution engines were modifying the engines to make much more power than stock and the weak link was always the belt on them until the manufacturers of the belts be it goodyear or who ever started making them out of a mix of kevlar and rubber to strengthen them more and even then belts would still break because they aren't that wide like a belt drive primary belt is so a chain is the way to go for a final drive on this .The early HD shovel head big twin bikes had automatic chain oilers on them and they usually either over oiled the chain or under oiled them so most that owned these bikes would shut them off and plug the oiler tube off and just by a thick chain oil and oil their own chains on those . Starting in the late 70s into the very early 80s the HD shovel head bikes started to come equipped with belt drive final drives on them instead of chains because they were quieter and no oil spray coming off the chain kept the bike cleaner with less maintenance involved . In the early days of motorcycles they primarily used belt drives on them for the primary and secondary drives once transmissions were developed but eventually when progress came along to be able to make a hardened steel drive chain for both primary and secondary drives that changed everything as far as reliability and maintenance but eventually as technology improved the belt came back on some bikes while others used a chain or drive shaft like BMW had for years which the Japanese bike makers started to make shaft drive bikes as well .