Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷. God bless y'all, and God bless America 🇺🇸

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Greetings and the best to all of you and yours.

Love the documentary of the builds and their builders at this show. Thanks for posting.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@cameramanmike2072

5 ай бұрын

👍😊

Thanks for these videos Mike! And G’day from Sydney Australia! Seeing the bikes at Paradise is what got me in to bikes and you make me want to make the trip out one year!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Sounds good to me. Born Free 2024 will have all those bikes in June.

Thanks Mike nice ride

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Sweet ride. Thank you guys!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Sweet ride guys, thanks Mike and Mike!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Thank You.

That's a cool bike. Funny how all that stuff was common place back in the day. Oh, the stories! Hahaha.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Can't help it. It's just fun.

I bought a 1967 Electraglide from Ghost Motorcycles in Port Washington NY in 1981, I pulled $3300 out of my sock & they accepted my offer. Bike ran like a Swiss watch was 100% stock in appearance. I yanked the pogo stock seat installed a mustang seat & pad & rode the bike all over the east coast, Twice I did 120 MPH with my girlfriend on the back same stretch of road the long slight downhill on Sunrise highway {rt.27} in the Hamptons. I told the part of the story of my 67 electraglide doing 120 & a guy didn't believe me the electraglides were that fast top end ..mine was.. the 1967 motor was a great engine

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Hard to say what all was in that motor, what the gearing was like for the drive system. I don't doubt you.

@Scalihoo

5 ай бұрын

@@pacificmike9501 exactly, the bike was 14 years old when I bought it but I didn't think the motor was ever open up could be wrong

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Some of the cams from back in the day were pretty interesting. 67's came with Linkert "DC" series carburetors. There were guys that would put Tilotsons on them and make them scream. I never learned that one.

Love it! "ZoMbie cyles" makes some of my favorite bikes!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Cool.

Great to see choppers for as far as I can see. I am drooling. Think I have an early magnesium rear wheel sort of like that stashed away. Think it was an old alphabet one as I recall. Great to see all those choppers. Just don't get that down my way. Thanks for sharing with us!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Well, maybe you can visit down our way in the future.

@itsmytimeletsgo

5 ай бұрын

That would be great but unfortunaly can't afford a trip like that, but thanks for the offer. I will just keep watching and drooling over all these choppers. Thanks for letting us all see these bikes and spreading the word out there.@@pacificmike9501

Good lookin flat side he’s got there. That for setup and American are just right on that jewel.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Yes, it's fun stuff.

Interesting information,68 Harley was electric start only because they said you don't need a kick starter....69, they put the Kickstarter back on for a backup.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

And most of us added kickstarters on them anyway. Every aftermarket company around carried kickstarter kits.

You Guys have the Greatest Lives.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

We try. There ain't no free lunch. Takes determination. But, it is fun.

Great videos...beautiful bikes! Hope you're not being too affected by that nasty weather in California Mike!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Thank You. I try to maintain. Right now, I'm considering building an Ark, with two of each kind of Harley.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Maybe see you at Chopperfest.

HOWdy P-M, ... Thanks COOP ...

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

And Hello to you.

... Aww man , im all about learning new stuff. You normally teach us cool stuff, but why wouldn't ya let us know why the 69's are a lot more smoother running engines. 😅 ... Now I can't stop thinking about it... 🤔 But that is a sweet looking motorcycle!👍🏻

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Good question!

Cool bike 😊..... would like to hear it run😊

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Maybe next time we all get together. I imagine Scotty will be at Chopperfest next Sunday.

I can't recall the original production numbers for the 66-69 shovels but they are somewhat rare. You do not see a lot of them come up for sale. Everyone was putting shovelhead tops on their panheads back in the day. Thinking boy am I going to have a fast motorcycle. You put a 40 degree or more rake on a glide your tubes are just going to bounce anyway especially the early Superglide front end

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Yes they did. They would flex. There were a bunch of 66-69 big twins. A lot of those topends came from the Highway Patrol. They ran them for something like 20 thousand miles and replaced the entire topend. I had a 65 Panhead Harley that had been California Highway Patrol. The guy I got it from in 1974 had gone through the whole bike, but sadly, he raked the frame from the stock 30 degrees to 40 degrees. He also had 12" over tubes. Those tubes just flexed instead of sliding. The lower legs had been turned down and shortened to the point that there was no room for seals. It drove me nuts. I hit a bump on the freeway and one slider collapsed and stuck. As for generator Shovelheads, there were bunches in SoCal. Don't know where they all are today. But I worked on a bunch during the eighties and nineties. Then, there were tons of cone motors until Evos outnumbered everything.

@everettcalhoun8197

5 ай бұрын

@@pacificmike9501 True the production numbers in the evo years just dwarfed the shovel and panhead years. Like I think Sonny or someone else said years ago about the evo's. Now anyone with $25,000 and a new leather coat can pretend to be a biker. Still a lot of evo's with 5000 miles on them. Later.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

I try to be a live and let live kinda guy. They can be whoever or whatever they want. I love my old bikes. They're old like me.

@everettcalhoun8197

5 ай бұрын

@@pacificmike9501 I agree. My comment wasn't about excluding anyone but explaining that not everyone has the same background. Hamsters have never been my cup of tea but I will acknowledge they are a positive group.

A Californian tooth-gap contest!? . . . Whoa, English dentistry sez - 'Do hold my Pimm's old son'. (Having no heart to leave, not even in San Francisco, I must adapt . . . apols. to Frank & Tony) # 'I left my teeth, . . on Langar's runway, . . Spread on the ground, . . . they smile at me' . . . # UK 'Summer Teeth' are different to the US version, ours means 'amazingly, some are still there'. Naturally enough, those that do remain, each retain their obtuse angles & compass heading. So. Greetings from the land of the buckshot bite-radius, crunchy apples & whistling dialog! Y'all : )

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Guess I shoud'a kept my mouth shut.

@loddude5706

5 ай бұрын

''B'dum - tish!' Have fun out there : )

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

"Thank You, Thank You very much."

Nice Video looks very family oriented. Beautiful people. Thanks Yall. Have fun.

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Absolutely love your videos Mike!! I’ve been watching your videos for sometime now, but this is the first time I’ve commented. Do you have it a shop website? Thanks so much for all the great videos!

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy our videos. Our website is pacificmike.com

Interesting stories😀Life. Me teeth is out😀No more.Fuc.n alcohol-Caribbean RUM and Jim Beam🥃

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

It's an ongoing story between Scotty and I. Guess it got a bit out there.

@michaelkoxsolapov8523

5 ай бұрын

Two Jentlemen Talking.@@pacificmike9501

I'll go rhythm

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Okay.

Hi Mike it looks like you have some great weather for the show. I have a quick question for you. I’m setting the timing on my 1979 FXS with a timing light. When the engine is running about 2,000 RPM I have the timing line dead center with the hole. Is this correct or should it favor to the left or right of the hole?

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

It's very close. Hard to do with a timing light. But, see how it runs. It's pretty rare that an older bike is 100 % stock. You're either there or very close.

Enjoying your videos. Learning a lot. I have a 67 flh I am reviving. Where would you recommend I purchase the su carburetor and manifold. I have located a few on ebay but haven't made the purchase yet

@pacificmike9501

5 ай бұрын

Used ones on ebay. Try for new ones at American Prime Manufacturing 562-889-8665

@nealmarsh1196

5 ай бұрын

Will do. Thanks Mike.

@cameramanmike2072

5 ай бұрын

👍😊