steveb leatherworks: the blather

Well if you’ve been keeping up with the adventures of the Shiny Penny, you’ve read my rant on the “quick release/ detachable” crapski that Harley sells us suckers who need this bit of convenience added to their already their hi-priced sleds…it aint pretty this whole detachable deal, but I’ve already covered this ground in previous self indulgent ranting….lol…. i dont lament giving up Big Blue, my 91 FL this year, but I am not sure I am down with the “new deal” of having to bring the bike in for service and for having a relationship requiring I interact with the MoCo on a regular basis…new world for me.

anyway, I need to put this story to bed for good for all of our sakes, and this photo reminds me to finish what i started a ways back…so ….during the trials and tribulations of installing the detachable tourpak hardware, Me and Dan-o tried installing the “antenna relocation” kit that HD sells us poor suckers. You want to talk about “crapski-in-a-box”? You want to talk about a weak attempt to solve a relocation challenge? You want to talk about a successfull hoovering of cash out of your wallet for nothing but a head scratchin’ “what the hell is this box of junk” mechanical session?

this is part of the crap they give you in the box - urk!

here ya go, have fun, good luck to ya!!

Well here ya go, buy this crap in a box and good luck to you big sucka, or you can do like me and figure this conundrum out yerself.

First thing i did was return the crapski-in-a-box to the local Dealer and bought myself a donut for being so smart. It was a filled raspberry donut if you were wondering….almost went whole hog for the almond horn, but that would have sent me into glucose orbit, not a pretty sight as my friends can attest.

So Dan-o had the bright idea you see here, as he did it to his pimping RoadGlide.

Turned that focker of an Antenna upside down and zip tied (hence the .50 investment of parts) to the inner bag support strut and done deal. I kind of like the Stealth tip coming out from under der fender. Looks cool and people usually ask me…ahh…what is that? I need to figure out a wise guy response to that someday.

special road sensor, gov't issued, of course!

There…does it work you might ask?  Well in one regard it does – it got my antenna out of the way of the tourpak…but what does it do for reception?   well…in all honesty..not much, kinda sucks in a way if your a radio listener – which I am not.  Lucky for me I am an iPod listener, never even used the radio once since i got the bike, other than to see how reception was with this inverted setup…which was not very impressive, I must admit. My perspective is , having the iPOd is about a gizabazillion times better than anything ive ever had to date..so who am i to bitch if my weather band doesn’t work so good…know what i mean?

classy and cheap, perfect!!

You roll the dice, ya takes yer chances…. works for me