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Just curious how many of you ride with them. Since you can't buy them or install them yourself (cancels the juju) how did you get them? Should be safe to ask since its past Friday. :rolleyes:

Edit: Upon further research I found you can install them yourself. It just doubles the power when given to you.

 
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Don't know if its just a Harley thing. I came across it at another forum (not Harley). Then as I goggled it I found there were made for many kinds of bikers. Thinking about getting one for both my bikes. Seems the feejer needs it the most lately.

 
Seems the feejer needs it the most lately.
The ones that should....don't.....the ones that won't.....should. Ya gotta remember....karma is justice with out redemption. Me only bell is me drunken brain. Iffn it don't work......I pay the price.

 
A friend gave me one two bikes ago. I just transfer it to each new bike...

 
German Balls??????????????? :dribble: What the *** kinda question was that?

Good thing the bosses are away!

My Balls are powered, just in case ya need to know.

:jester:

 
Seems the feejer needs it the most lately.
The ones that should....don't.....the ones that won't.....should. Ya gotta remember....karma is justice with out redemption. Me only bell is me drunken brain. Iffn it don't work......I pay the price.


*******! Why ya givin out TRADE secrets?

******.

:jester:

 
Last time a gremlin tried to get on my bike, I beat him like a red-headed step-child. So if you see a gremlin with CRAFTSMAN imprinted backward on his forehead, that's him.

 
Just curious how many of you ride with them. Since you can't buy them or install them yourself (cancels the juju) how did you get them? Should be safe to ask since its past Friday. :rolleyes:

Edit: Upon further research I found you can install them yourself. It just doubles the power when given to you.
Haven't gotten one yet **sniff** but I gave a bunch of them away.

Toys for Tots MC parade (in Chicago) had them made last year, and I got a few to give to friends...

 
I've been given two of 'em.

They're sitting in the top drawer of the craftsman toolchest.

The toolchest has never crashed or gotten a ticket, so they must work.

 
On occasion, my wife has bought one and given it to some friend or co-worker.

My oldest son has one.

I will never have one. I don't believe in superstitious nonsense.

 
Okay, I admit it, I've got one on my FJR as of the day before this thread.

Little story, I was given one a few years ago, had it on my custom Honda. Never a problem. Then I bought my Mean Streak, so I transferred it over, the very next day, my Honda chaffed the wiring through the handlebars. Flash forward about a year, the Mean Streak needed new tires, the Streak has a small chin spoiler on it, to which, the bell was attached. Knowing the lugens who were gonna swap my tires would jack up my bike, and thus, breaking my chin spoiler, I took it off - along with the bell.

So I'm riding the Streak home and marvelling at its new found road manners, a gravel truck goes by, showering the road with gravel. Wouldn't you know it, the biggest nastiest piece of rock that came off the truck started bouncing right at me in slow motion. I heard it hit, thinking I was about to witness my windshield disintergrate. Nope, when I got home I started hunting for the hit point. Turns out it was on the backside of the mirror - a pretty good size dent in it. The bell went back on that afternoon.

No problems for a year after that.

I buy the FJR. No gremlin bell. I'm riding down the hwy through a construction zone, yet another gravel truck (actually, a slag truck - think bigger, kiln melted rocks) goes by around a corner, once again, spilling part of its load directly in front of me. BIG HIT. My brand new Cal-Sci windshield took a direct hit in the bottom clutch side area. BIG gouge out of it, but intact.

So, when I got home, the bell came off the Streak and got put on the FJR.

The stupidest bit though is people look at your bike, could be a tricked out custom painted chop, or FJR, and the first damn thing they ask about is the bell.

 
If you got em, may as well use them. I hear they work as well as bear bells tied to your shoe laces and deer whistles. B)

 
I don't believe in superstitious nonsense.
I mostly agree with that, but my version would be:

I don't believe in superstitious trinkets.

Some of them are downright dangerous! My mother-in-law bought a "Guardian Angel" for my (step)daughter when she got her driver's license. My daughter wanted to clip that thing to the visor in my car. I objected saying "In an accident, your going to have enough problems. You don't to be scalped by that damn thing."

Years have gone by and I had forgotten all about that trinket until last Tuesday. I moved my wife's car in the driveway. As I got out of the car, I felt a searing pain in my scalp. That damn "Guardian Angel" stabbed me with one of its sharp little cast metal wings.

Superstitious trinkets are the work of the Devil, same as mosquitoes and 6-32 taps.

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