2007 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail

One day, I was with my friend Clint. He had decided that he absolutely get a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

He had picked out a Springer Softail in black, and indeed, it was a fantastic looking bike to be sure, but settled on the Softail Custom instead.

That day I saw my motorcycle, I didn't care if it was a Harley or not, I was looking for a 'specific' style that I felt fit my personality.

Then I saw it - a 2007 Heritage Softail. Didn't have the seat I wanted on it, so within a few months I took it down to Corbin and had a custom seat put on it.

This is the stock 2007 Heritage Softail:

It's a fine Harley all by itself, but I found that there were a few problems with it, mostly it looked pretty plain.

The handlebars didn't *feel* right, and the floorboards were just stock. So within a year I have managed to stick about $5000 worth of chrome on it, new pipes, fender skirt with eagle emblems, and a bunch of Küryakyn parts that looked better (and cheaper) than the Harley-Davidson chrome that I saw in the dealership.

I'm just about done with the chrome upgrades on my Harley. I've recently added a tank pouch onto it as well as a RAM mounts for my iPhone. I created a custom USB adapter to charge the phone while I was on the road too.

Today while I was riding, I stopped by Eagle's Nest Harley-Davidson in Lathrop, California. I picked up a Küryakyn Deluxe Oil Line Nacelle, which compliments the Tappet Block Accent, and hopefully soon I will pick up the Transmission Shroud as well. All three together give the Harley Softail a real nice streamlined look that makes it stand out.

Here's a link to the part on Küryakyn's website. In the picture you can see all three parts (Transmission Shroud, Tappet Block Accent and Deluxe Oil Line Nacelle).

http://www.kuryakyn.com/index.cfm/go/Home.ProductDetail/catID/12/scID/95/IMID/232

I like the Küryakyn parts. It's sad that Harley doesn't make a lot of Chrome parts that look that good. Most of them are kind of plain jane looking stuff.

My purchase complete, I stuffed my new buy into my bag and took off for home. It was around 5:30pm and getting dark fast. I knew the temperature would drop fast, so wanted to get home before I froze something off...

Got home - and was starving, so went to my favorite Japanese food place, and ordered my usual meal. Spicey Miso Ramen soup, California Role and 5-piece of raw red tuna.

It sucks being diabetic. I want to eat other things, but that just makes my blood glucous level go up big time, so have to make sure that I watch the carbs.

Dinner finished, I went back home, took a shower and logged onto Blogger.com to setup my new blog and post something. I still have about 4-5 months of blogs that I need to transfer to this site, and that will take a while for sure.

Until next blog...