I used to ride everyday before I found cars. I was also broke as hell, trying to get by in College. I ended up riding again and one thing I agree with...what the hell even are New Harleys? My Milwaukee 8 spent more time broken then running. I never abused it, followed maintenance, but it just kept giving me another reason to buy another part for it. I got all the "Common M8" issues right outside of Warranty Period...wonderful. Comp Ramp, Electrical Issues, Oil Pump, the whole nine yards, I got THAT unlucky. After 16K miles...good riddance. I still ride today, but not on a Harley! I usually love American Vehicles, but I'm not going back!!
That's awesome, my dad used to ride the same exact bike. He had to sell it about 13 years ago after he was diagnosed Parkinson's so he couldn't ride any more. I ended up tracking the bike down and buying it back. He knew it was his bike as soon as he heard it pull into his subdivision.
I had to do a double take too, I thought it was my Dad’s bike (he passed in 2017). I inherited his bike, but it was just too big for me to drive. He was a burly Harley guy who looked every inch the scary biker (he actually WAS in an outlaw club in his youth, gave it all up when he met my Mom) and I’m a small, petite woman. I could barely get the thing upright by myself! I wound up selling it, and he’d taken enough care and put enough aftermarket chrome on it that I got an offer before we’d even unloaded the bike trailer at the dealership. 😂
@@TheScrubmuffin69 It wasn’t a brand dealership, just a general new and used motorbike place. I didn’t have the experience with safety inspections, ownership papers etc. to deal with it all myself, especially during COVID when I didn’t want random people coming into our house.
When I was a kid, Mom had a red Indian that she rode to work everyday (she was a Highschool teacher) and all of the other neighborhood kids would watch her ride it sometimes. She was eventually forced to get a real car when me and my sister started going to school, so she got a green Outback she called Fiona. Then a few years before she died, she got a big black Harley that she was way too small for. Miss ya mom 🫡
I bet the kids thought she was the coolest parent/teacher at that school if she Dailied an Indian. Well, some of them probably did, especially if she had a snazzy looking set of riding gear.
There's two kinds of people who buy a Harley brand new: The kind who come to regret their purchase. And the kind who pretend they haven't come to regret their purchase.
The Twin Cam is the engine people think of when they think of a stereotypical Harley, whether they know it or not . Old heads will think of a panhead or a shovelhead, but the twin cam enjoyed an almost 20-year production cycle the longest of any Harley engine, and it was the engine that Harley was using in the motorcycle boom of the late '90s and early 2000s.
@@SentinelHirsc Evos are also real fun, the last of the motors built on the same basic DNA as the knuck and pan but with all the benefits of modern metallurgy -- a little less power than a TC, but a little more old-school in some fun ways if that "authenticity" is what you come to a carbed Harley for. Still very good parts availability on them and they're reasonably priced these days to boot.
The more I watch your vids the more I have a serious mindfuck - what kind of a guy are you, sounds like a modern version of a cool uncle that will have a metric ton of stories to tell when he's 50 and coming back from a wild trip in Africa. What I can say is you convinced me to buy George for washing carpets and seats - what a great extractor.
Hearing the part about not sending 2-3 year old gas through because he loves the engine and carburetor just implies next video is "Can Jeff run on 3 year old gas"
@@matiasaguilar2500 him saying "enshittification" specifically, he's been avoiding it for a while even though he really likes talking about what it means ("the biggest companies make the worst garbage")
Aw man I so get the emotional connection to your Harley. I had the opposite situation, kinda. Got myself a Sporty (their smallest bike) and used it for looong distance trips (well, "long" in Euro terms, not Aussie). Had a pathetic 8 litre fuel tank, so I always carried a spare can of gas. Such good memories, hated to let it go after a drunk driver in their Audi SUV totalled it for me. One day I'm deffo gonna get another Sporty, the sound of the engine idling just directly goes to my heart every time.
Just wanted to say, glad that it was the bike that got totalled and you get to think about your next ride choice. The 8 litre tank sounds "fun", my first 50cc had 9! Gospeed.
@MichalKobuszewski I definitely am! Didn't take long until I was riding again either - but I still kinda yearn for that exact bike (it's weird being attached to an object, but here we are).
@MichalKobuszewski I definitely am! And it didn't take long until I was riding again either - but I still kinda yearn for that exact bike (I still think it's a bit weird being attached to an inanimate object, but here we are). My very first was a 50cc too! But 9 litres lasts you a lot longer there than with a 1.2 litre engine
Dad didn't have that one, since that's got to be the CLASSIC, he had the ULTRA. He used to ride the ROAD KING while mom had the Sportster Softail. Got into two decent wrecks since she was a bad driver. In like the 20 years my father rode, never an accident, bike might have tipped over, but never a "NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL" accident like my mother. Both Hospital trips were not SUPERFICIAL, but not terrible. Don't think she ever needed stitches or casts, just bruised badly. Since my father was an instructor as well, so our family was SUPER big on wear jeans, and long sleeved shirts MINIMUM. Dad would Jeans and Leather Jacket up for long rides. He did Route 66, Blue Ridge, Grand Canyon, week to month long rides. Beauty of owning your own company.
10:14 My dad's old bike was absolutely covered in those metal Harley skulls. They would sell them as custom replacement parts for things like gas caps, grips, bolt covers, ect. He had the same exact grips worn out the exact same way.
Those skulls were the personal logo of their former Chief of design and styling. He personally designed the Super Glide, Low Rider, and the Fatboy, just to name some notable examples. He was also the grandson of one of the founders.
I was so bummed to hear how awful the Road Glide turned out, actual heartbreak :( But all of that went away when I heard Susie's baffle-less sound. Brilliant bike
Sounds like my neighbor four or five times a day. -_- Why he feels the need to rev his bike when he PARKS it in his OWN DRIVEWAY after 9pm I will never understand.
@@aliabdi6094 If you're like perfect at matching the clutch with your current speed & driveway slope (& like duckwalking), maybe? But that's how anybody teaches to get a motorcycle moving, & its' not how cops do their low-speed stuff (even on Harleys). You hold the throttle at about 3-4k rpm & use the clutch to meter power input to ground. Motorcycle clutches are touchy. Oh yeah, because this is early in the morning, the choke is probably necessary for a bit. Longer if colder.
I just picked up my first bike this morning! 2013 DR650 with less than 10,000 miles on it. Runs like a dream and I've already dumped it in the dirt once.
Dude, this video came just 1 day after I passed my MSF course and got my motorcycle licence! I've been successfully restoring someone's botched and abandoned project cafe racer CB750 I bought for cheap. A really good friend of mine is letting me ride his smaller bikes out on the road while I get used to it all and work up my skills. Your videos on all your nuggets were and still are a huge inspiration for me to work on my own nugget, which just happens to run on two wheels. It's so cool to hear that you've got your own 2-wheeled nuggets as well! Cheers mate and hello from South Dakota!
Daaaamn, my respect for you just skyrocketed. I am also a motorbike guy, but I'm faithful to one model - Suzuki DL650. Had a 2006 one for years, sold it to try choppers, bought 2009 Honda Shadow 750, did about 1000 km on it, sold it and bought 2011 DL650 :D It's 650 cc V2, stock 67 HP, remapped to Japanese engine map to get about 98 HP, with optional Touring kit. I was through hell with this bugger, and it never failed me. Funny thing - since SV650 in 1999, Suzuki is putting THE SAME EXACT ENGINE to all SV650 and DL650 models, even the ones presented this year. This is the same, exact engine, they developed in 1999, it's so good, they still do it the same way and put it to brand new SVs and DLs.
I regularly joke, I have NO business stretching myself across a motor bike of ANY sort, ever. But I FUCKING LOVE bikes, I love the style, the idea, the culture, good and bad. Bikes are just one of those things I would LOVE to be a part of the culture of because they're SO interesting. I wanna be clear I HAVE the option it's just UNGODLY unsafe where I live, hell it's unsafe in a TRUCK let alone a car or even a bike. Hearing you talk about these is so much fun, it's just fun to hear you talk about your loves and joys
I love seeing how much you enjoy that bike, I live in Wisconsin the birthplace of Harley, it was just a part of life to see Harleys. I'm glad people out of the USA like them too.
I have them all over my bike, but that's because my bike is a super glide. those skulls were the personal logo of the guy who designed the original super glide. It's a send up to him, Willie G. Davidson.
That's not a boomer thing, it's a military thing to honor the POW-MIA from wars past. I get that you wouldn't understand it, but please don't insult them is all i ask. There are many POW-MIA even today including that marine in russia who got passed for that dumb basketball player and is very likely being tortured as you read this. He's but one example of our many lost souls.
I've been riding for more than 15 years and haven't stopped due to growing attached to how it feels to operate a bike. I started off on two wheels because I wasn't able to afford all the costs that came with owning a car and rode for most of the year even after a snow fall and the streets are cleared. It was where I learned to be my own mechanic and started going down the path of repairing cars and bikes as a side gig. I was always into dirt biking but had to borrow friends dirt bikes as my family could only afford a pedal BMX.
Thank you for using baffles! I know about people who's eardrums have ruptured from a biker revving up without baffles. When you say you care about hearing protection, you mean it!
Someone from the Eagle Country here. Love thes old Harleys. My grandparents have a 1995 heritage softtail and an 85 Fxrs they used to drive to Sturgis every year. Eventually stopped because it got really dangerous (early 00s). Love them. Their 95 was pink and tan! They sit in the garage for looks now. though the 85 was started around a year ago because they thought to sell it but decided against it.
My roomie has a cute lil' Honda Trail 125 that packs quite a punch for such a tiny engine ( she doesn't like to do highway speeds though, 42 MPH in 4th is where she settles ) but when he lent that to me for a few days, I tell ya: I might genuinely get that off him instead of a car.
Good old Harley Davidson. HD stands for hundred dollar. I got my hands on a 2019 street glide special and I’ve never looked back since. You’re definitely right when it comes to risking your life to ride though lol
"My tenth year risking my life pointlessly" is so on the money when it comes to riding in adelaide, in saying that tho im keen for a ride when ya get that beast back on the road mate
I miss my old KZ250, it didn't go super fast but it sure felt like it. Test drove a friend's 1600cc bike a few years ago and I felt like I was sitting on top of a Volkswagen.
Quite fun that you post this as I'm in the middle of buying a 1999 motorcycle to become my daily driver. I hope we get to see more of Susie and motorbike shenanigans. Having her on the litre board would be kind of cool.
Always been curious what the appeal would be for these bikes outside of America once you got away from the Ra Ra Patriotism. Turns out good noise, reliability, and simple to work on is a good selling point worldwide.
6:03 I HAVE ONE OF THESE! Love it. it's a '97 650 (we only got them till '04 in the UK) but still, i can completely see why they were sold for over 20 years.
I love those late 90's, early 2000's Harleys. It was so much fun to ride. Personally, I had a fat boy for a while before it decided it was done. Now got an mt-07
That's because those engines are rubber mounted to the frame, which gives them that travel. On the Softail models of harley, the engine was rigid mounted with a counterbalancer installed in it, so it didn't move like that.
The good news is that motorcycles have a pretty similar survival rate to cars if you filter out the fatalities that occur when the riders are doing Dumb Biker Stuff. So as long as Dank follows basic traffic safety he should be fine.
got me a 83 Honda cx650c that my dad gave me. never was a bike guy but i'mma ride that beast till there's nothin left. love it way more than i should. mad respect to die hard riders. i don't know how y'all do it.
My family is a big biker fam, and if there’s one thing we believe in is that we don’t like Harley’s. My dad worked for the company and knew there was some shady shit going on with their bikes. We all own Honda’s and they are all more than 10 years old when we got them, with more than 10000 miles in each and they are BEASTS. Obviously things are gonna be replaced with time but you’re able to rebuild everything but the engine cuz it’ll just last forever. So fun to work on, super easy to understand and fix.
I've been riding for about as long. Bought a Goldwing back in the day and I still ride it quite often. I love my dorky looking bagger. Just ticked over 130k miles on mine. It's still the go-to long trip vehicle for the Mrs and I, and with public transit replacing a car for anything close by, every vehicle I own now has 2 wheels.
I got my Motorcycle license a year ago in 9 days, The day I got it my dad said "alright time to get my bike back on the road so we can go and ride", it has been a year and it's still off the road. good luck with your endeavors on repairing this beast!
2:10 the drip of oil is pretty much normal but the m8 motor is the worst they ever made please get another rode glide just get one from 2013 get a twin cam or twin cam 88
as a sportster 883 owner the "50 HORSEPOWER HAS NEVER FELT SO LOUD" is so real. I never thought I would want to own a harley, my first bike was an 85 magna 500 vf500c and I always imagined I would go from that to something sportier but I rode a sportster 1 time and immediately knew i needed to vibrate.
What a beauty. Just a couple cycles of the carb fuel booster and she fired right up no questions asked. Must be nice in comparison to how Tony just cranks for minutes at a time.
MORE MOTORBIKE CONTENT PLEASE Also damn yeh i know what you mean about new engines. I just bought a new BSA 650 to take some slack off my nugget Enfield bullet, but its just not the same. That said half of it is in the pipes though, i'll rip off the stock ones at somepoint, see how she sounds un-cucked.
Hearing your joy about this is just like my dad recently, who just got a bike again for the first time in a couple decades! He sold his back when I was a baby so he and mom could get a Family CarTM, but I'm almost 30 now so that hasn't mattered for a while lmao. I don't know a whole lot about bikes but I love them a lot cause my dad always has. Susie sounds beautiful!
"50 horsepower's never been so noisy!"
Ah yes, the Harley tradition.
It's not a Harley if it can't be recorded on a seismometer.
Harley Davidson perfected the art of turning gasoline into noise and vibration.
@@lbgstzockt8493Without the side effect of horsepower
I dunno about yall, but all I heard was screaming eagles and the Constitution when he started it up.
@@SkyPassYT YEAH DUDE NOT BAD FOR A FUCKN AUSSIE BIKE EH I LOVE AUSSIES THEY HAVE JUST AS MUCH GREAT PRIDE FOR THEIR COUNTRY AS WE DO FOR OURS.
"My tenth year risking my life pointlessly" has gotta be the greatest intro ever
Mad lad rode a motorbike in Adelaide traffic. That is insane.
Life is pointless without motorcycles 👌
it's so real
both emkay and mongoose mentioned? THE TWO MOST BASED THINGS I CAN THINK OF!
IN PREVIOUS VIDEOS WADE HAS STATED THAT GAZ IS HIS STEP FATHER, NOT FATHER IN LAW
could be a different person
@@galaxiastyleshe misspoke because he's an exhaust fumes huffing dingus (and we love him for it)
@@galaxiastylesnope, see the Dankpods 1 million special where he first talks about this bike - it is the same Gaz
ok.
No reason he can't be both.
I used to ride everyday before I found cars. I was also broke as hell, trying to get by in College.
I ended up riding again and one thing I agree with...what the hell even are New Harleys? My Milwaukee 8 spent more time broken then running. I never abused it, followed maintenance, but it just kept giving me another reason to buy another part for it. I got all the "Common M8" issues right outside of Warranty Period...wonderful. Comp Ramp, Electrical Issues, Oil Pump, the whole nine yards, I got THAT unlucky. After 16K miles...good riddance. I still ride today, but not on a Harley! I usually love American Vehicles, but I'm not going back!!
12:29 "Never let me down! ..'cept for times that she did..."
WSGGGGG FELLOW KANYE FANNNN
@@sosorazzaq4434 what
Ok we’ve just had the Dankpods is married lore drop
It's not especially surprising all things considered. Wade's got a strong sense of humor and a hard-working personality.
Plot twist: He was referring to James's dad.
it is genuinely food for thought when you realise how reclusive Wade is about his life online, in comparison to almost everyone else.
I suspect that he has kids too
I think he misspoke and meant his stepdad, name dropped Gaz moments later.
An old harley proverb says that an Harley-Davidson not dripping oil has no oil.
As we say in aviation, especially with old airplanes, "If it ain't leakin', it's empty."
@@TheDalhuck they say that about old Italian cars as well😂
The old older models like the Hydra Glide were actually designed to drip oil as their means of lubrication
@@jwalster9412 British too, as well as Subarus!
If it ain't dripping oil it's out of oil!
8:40 This is the only vehicle I've seen wade get defensive over when James does something scuffed and nonchalant. You can tell it's special.
That's awesome, my dad used to ride the same exact bike. He had to sell it about 13 years ago after he was diagnosed Parkinson's so he couldn't ride any more. I ended up tracking the bike down and buying it back. He knew it was his bike as soon as he heard it pull into his subdivision.
I had to do a double take too, I thought it was my Dad’s bike (he passed in 2017). I inherited his bike, but it was just too big for me to drive. He was a burly Harley guy who looked every inch the scary biker (he actually WAS in an outlaw club in his youth, gave it all up when he met my Mom) and I’m a small, petite woman. I could barely get the thing upright by myself!
I wound up selling it, and he’d taken enough care and put enough aftermarket chrome on it that I got an offer before we’d even unloaded the bike trailer at the dealership. 😂
@@SoundShinobiYuki you sold it to a dealership? Damn that's a poor decision
@@TheScrubmuffin69 It wasn’t a brand dealership, just a general new and used motorbike place.
I didn’t have the experience with safety inspections, ownership papers etc. to deal with it all myself, especially during COVID when I didn’t want random people coming into our house.
When I was a kid, Mom had a red Indian that she rode to work everyday (she was a Highschool teacher) and all of the other neighborhood kids would watch her ride it sometimes. She was eventually forced to get a real car when me and my sister started going to school, so she got a green Outback she called Fiona. Then a few years before she died, she got a big black Harley that she was way too small for. Miss ya mom 🫡
Brits would be very uncomfortable with that first sentence lol.
I bet the kids thought she was the coolest parent/teacher at that school if she Dailied an Indian.
Well, some of them probably did, especially if she had a snazzy looking set of riding gear.
There's two kinds of people who buy a Harley brand new:
The kind who come to regret their purchase.
And the kind who pretend they haven't come to regret their purchase.
Father-in-law? Wait, theres a mrs. Nugget?
Just had the same thought lmao
Haha he never said it was a lady...
I think he misspoke because he said that it was gaz his stepdad who had it
@@laluzdelsol7587 maybe him and his old mate james.......
@@Ederick1936james has a wife and i think 2 kids.
whered the other 2 wheels go? 0:01
I was hungry.
😮
Frank needed to borrow them for her rat-mobile
Source: im the rat she just ate
That's a good question
i dunno mate thats all they sold him for a couple thousand bucks
Dank: This is my favorite combustion engine
Me: A 25 year old harley?
Dank: *revs it*
Me: Oh ok, i see why
The Twin Cam is the engine people think of when they think of a stereotypical Harley, whether they know it or not . Old heads will think of a panhead or a shovelhead, but the twin cam enjoyed an almost 20-year production cycle the longest of any Harley engine, and it was the engine that Harley was using in the motorcycle boom of the late '90s and early 2000s.
@@SentinelHirsc Evos are also real fun, the last of the motors built on the same basic DNA as the knuck and pan but with all the benefits of modern metallurgy -- a little less power than a TC, but a little more old-school in some fun ways if that "authenticity" is what you come to a carbed Harley for. Still very good parts availability on them and they're reasonably priced these days to boot.
2:42 congrats on Mrs.Dank Pods 🎉💐
Sorry but he meant his step dad Gaz
Gaz is the man his mom married after dank's dad passed.
@@skalkabob Gaz could be both his step-dad and his father in law
Maybe that's how Gaz met his mum
Garbage Time is now officially also a motorbike channel!
An motorbike channel!
Fortnine just woke up in a cold sweat
i love it
@@thisisabsolutelystup Yammie Noob is cursing the world
Seems like every car youtuber recently also started doing motorcycle content. Not sure why, but it's a good thing cuz I love both lol
Oh man, sorry you had to learn about the new Harley era the hard way.
Mates a part of every motor community and I love it.
Except planes
@@istvanlorinczi2817 beat me to it bastard
@istvanlorinczi2817 he lives close to an airport iirc that's close enough
@@ElectroNicko_ yeah I know he hates planes now
Never seen him on a ride out hear in Adelaide ,no comunity at all bro he a loner
The more I watch your vids the more I have a serious mindfuck - what kind of a guy are you, sounds like a modern version of a cool uncle that will have a metric ton of stories to tell when he's 50 and coming back from a wild trip in Africa.
What I can say is you convinced me to buy George for washing carpets and seats - what a great extractor.
Hearing the part about not sending 2-3 year old gas through because he loves the engine and carburetor just implies next video is "Can Jeff run on 3 year old gas"
I think that petrol is going in the Goober, like the Merc contaminated petrol
WADE IS OUT HERE CRANKIN HIS HAWG
HE'LL YEAH BROTHER GOBBLESS.
SMELLED A TRUFFLE AND WENT HOG WILD
Harley-Davidson: 119 years of tradition, unfettered by any progress.
I love them so so much
6:17 FINALLY, I'VE WAITED 4 YEARS FOR THIS!
Wade swearing?
@@aussierobber and here I am still waiting for the car converted to an EV
@@infinitytec the e-nugg?
@@aussierobberthe e-nugg was converted before he bought it, he did say he wants to try convert the donkey van with old solar batteries
@@matiasaguilar2500 him saying "enshittification" specifically, he's been avoiding it for a while even though he really likes talking about what it means ("the biggest companies make the worst garbage")
What you get buying a Harley davidson:
Power ❌
Reliability ❌
Technology ❌
Performance ❌
Debt ✅
Noise ✅
CRANKIN YER HAWWWG ✅
And if you buy it upfront, in cash, you don't even get that.
Baffles on a Harley? The whole point of Harley's is to convert gasoline to noise
Wade's a musician - it has to be the right kind of noise.
Aw man I so get the emotional connection to your Harley. I had the opposite situation, kinda. Got myself a Sporty (their smallest bike) and used it for looong distance trips (well, "long" in Euro terms, not Aussie). Had a pathetic 8 litre fuel tank, so I always carried a spare can of gas. Such good memories, hated to let it go after a drunk driver in their Audi SUV totalled it for me. One day I'm deffo gonna get another Sporty, the sound of the engine idling just directly goes to my heart every time.
Just wanted to say, glad that it was the bike that got totalled and you get to think about your next ride choice. The 8 litre tank sounds "fun", my first 50cc had 9! Gospeed.
@MichalKobuszewski I definitely am! Didn't take long until I was riding again either - but I still kinda yearn for that exact bike (it's weird being attached to an object, but here we are).
@MichalKobuszewski I definitely am! And it didn't take long until I was riding again either - but I still kinda yearn for that exact bike (I still think it's a bit weird being attached to an inanimate object, but here we are).
My very first was a 50cc too! But 9 litres lasts you a lot longer there than with a 1.2 litre engine
Dad didn't have that one, since that's got to be the CLASSIC, he had the ULTRA. He used to ride the ROAD KING while mom had the Sportster Softail. Got into two decent wrecks since she was a bad driver. In like the 20 years my father rode, never an accident, bike might have tipped over, but never a "NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL" accident like my mother. Both Hospital trips were not SUPERFICIAL, but not terrible. Don't think she ever needed stitches or casts, just bruised badly. Since my father was an instructor as well, so our family was SUPER big on wear jeans, and long sleeved shirts MINIMUM. Dad would Jeans and Leather Jacket up for long rides. He did Route 66, Blue Ridge, Grand Canyon, week to month long rides. Beauty of owning your own company.
why are you shouting their names?
GOBBLESS @@johnjohannesjuan
10:14
My dad's old bike was absolutely covered in those metal Harley skulls.
They would sell them as custom replacement parts for things like gas caps, grips, bolt covers, ect.
He had the same exact grips worn out the exact same way.
Those skulls were the personal logo of their former Chief of design and styling. He personally designed the Super Glide, Low Rider, and the Fatboy, just to name some notable examples. He was also the grandson of one of the founders.
11:52 sounds like the Harley guys in that one South Park episode
I was so bummed to hear how awful the Road Glide turned out, actual heartbreak :( But all of that went away when I heard Susie's baffle-less sound. Brilliant bike
This is the most brother-ass brother to ever brother.
It's the bike from the video, when he attached 2 ipod behind it ! 😎
lmao i remember that one!
50 hp is a very funny amount of power to have. It's in competition with tony even, maybe.
They probably weight the same too 😂
@@gb2983 it's hard to say if it's because tony is an eggshell or Susie is a lumbering beast
@@gb2983 not far off
@@gb2983an Electra Glide with all the chrome and the top box weighs about 800, so this is probably in the 750 range
Believe it or not, stock Tony does 24HP.
Without the baffels sounds like my neighbor at 6:30 in the morning
Sounds like my neighbor four or five times a day. -_- Why he feels the need to rev his bike when he PARKS it in his OWN DRIVEWAY after 9pm I will never understand.
@@zekenelsons2069 Tell me you've never worked a clutch, esp. a bike clutch, ever in your life.
@@kingnull2697 most people haven't
@@kingnull2697doesn't it have enough torque to get moving without throttle input?
@@aliabdi6094 If you're like perfect at matching the clutch with your current speed & driveway slope (& like duckwalking), maybe?
But that's how anybody teaches to get a motorcycle moving, & its' not how cops do their low-speed stuff (even on Harleys). You hold the throttle at about 3-4k rpm & use the clutch to meter power input to ground. Motorcycle clutches are touchy.
Oh yeah, because this is early in the morning, the choke is probably necessary for a bit. Longer if colder.
I just picked up my first bike this morning!
2013 DR650 with less than 10,000 miles on it. Runs like a dream and I've already dumped it in the dirt once.
Harley Davidson: The most efficient way to convert petrol into noise without the unwanted byproduct of horsepower.
Dude, this video came just 1 day after I passed my MSF course and got my motorcycle licence! I've been successfully restoring someone's botched and abandoned project cafe racer CB750 I bought for cheap. A really good friend of mine is letting me ride his smaller bikes out on the road while I get used to it all and work up my skills.
Your videos on all your nuggets were and still are a huge inspiration for me to work on my own nugget, which just happens to run on two wheels. It's so cool to hear that you've got your own 2-wheeled nuggets as well! Cheers mate and hello from South Dakota!
That grey spot on the green wall fu*ks with my eyes
LOVE
I kept thinking it was dirt on the lens
@@ProtoV33MK1 Yessss
>Rode to Melbourne and back
I'm in Florida, literally 5 miles south of Melbourne, named by an Australian immigrant.
Thanks for the smile.
There's nothing like the first start of an old friend
Daaaamn, my respect for you just skyrocketed.
I am also a motorbike guy, but I'm faithful to one model - Suzuki DL650. Had a 2006 one for years, sold it to try choppers, bought 2009 Honda Shadow 750, did about 1000 km on it, sold it and bought 2011 DL650 :D
It's 650 cc V2, stock 67 HP, remapped to Japanese engine map to get about 98 HP, with optional Touring kit. I was through hell with this bugger, and it never failed me.
Funny thing - since SV650 in 1999, Suzuki is putting THE SAME EXACT ENGINE to all SV650 and DL650 models, even the ones presented this year. This is the same, exact engine, they developed in 1999, it's so good, they still do it the same way and put it to brand new SVs and DLs.
this thing gets all the love that tony doesn't
Harley: _gotta get out that old gas, check oil, do a once over, check the battery, miscellaneous fawning_
Tony: *DRINK THE KEROSENE*
I regularly joke, I have NO business stretching myself across a motor bike of ANY sort, ever. But I FUCKING LOVE bikes, I love the style, the idea, the culture, good and bad. Bikes are just one of those things I would LOVE to be a part of the culture of because they're SO interesting. I wanna be clear I HAVE the option it's just UNGODLY unsafe where I live, hell it's unsafe in a TRUCK let alone a car or even a bike.
Hearing you talk about these is so much fun, it's just fun to hear you talk about your loves and joys
It looks less like a stack of Pringles and more like a Bluetooth speaker nugget.
I love seeing how much you enjoy that bike, I live in Wisconsin the birthplace of Harley, it was just a part of life to see Harleys. I'm glad people out of the USA like them too.
Ooh new vid! I have kinda been expecting a Motorcycle-Video for a while and its finally here!
Those skulls are the most boomer thing to put on a Harley
I'd argue a POW-MIA flag is the most Boomer accessory.
Awesome Face! Haven’t seen that in over ten years!
I have them all over my bike, but that's because my bike is a super glide. those skulls were the personal logo of the guy who designed the original super glide. It's a send up to him, Willie G. Davidson.
That's not a boomer thing, it's a military thing to honor the POW-MIA from wars past. I get that you wouldn't understand it, but please don't insult them is all i ask. There are many POW-MIA even today including that marine in russia who got passed for that dumb basketball player and is very likely being tortured as you read this. He's but one example of our many lost souls.
@@oceanbytez847 He just got home last week, what are you talking about?
Wade when he buys junk (harley) and is surprised its junk
Dankpods enters his Mad Max saga
all hail dankmentus
WITNESS ME, STINKY AND RUSTED!
THE AYATOLLAH OF DANK AND ROLLAH, LORD DANKMUNGOUS.
Brother when have we ever seen a Harley in mad max
I ride a regular bicycle, which is basically the same thing, right?
Yeah yeah, it has 2 wheels and a motor right? Basically the same thing
If you eat a lot of beans will also sound like it😂
Well you wear more protective gear on a bike, and if you get hit by somebody else and it's their fault I have to imagine it's pretty similar
It's a human-hill hybrid.
I've passed Harleys in the twisty roads on my bicycle....
I've been riding for more than 15 years and haven't stopped due to growing attached to how it feels to operate a bike. I started off on two wheels because I wasn't able to afford all the costs that came with owning a car and rode for most of the year even after a snow fall and the streets are cleared. It was where I learned to be my own mechanic and started going down the path of repairing cars and bikes as a side gig. I was always into dirt biking but had to borrow friends dirt bikes as my family could only afford a pedal BMX.
If you want Tony's bike equivalent, I suggest checking out the Simson SR/KR series
Thank you for using baffles! I know about people who's eardrums have ruptured from a biker revving up without baffles. When you say you care about hearing protection, you mean it!
0:15 probably the first time I ever heard someone use words 'carb' and 'love' is same sentence.~
I love carb you, you darn injector junkie!
@@cskalle1213 funnily enough, there were 5 carburetors and only 4 fuel injectors in my life total.
Love carbs to. just so easy to tune and fun to tinker with
Someone from the Eagle Country here. Love thes old Harleys. My grandparents have a 1995 heritage softtail and an 85 Fxrs they used to drive to Sturgis every year. Eventually stopped because it got really dangerous (early 00s). Love them. Their 95 was pink and tan! They sit in the garage for looks now. though the 85 was started around a year ago because they thought to sell it but decided against it.
My roomie has a cute lil' Honda Trail 125 that packs quite a punch for such a tiny engine ( she doesn't like to do highway speeds though, 42 MPH in 4th is where she settles ) but when he lent that to me for a few days, I tell ya: I might genuinely get that off him instead of a car.
Fyi for a engine that size they actually don't pack much punch at all but they have really short gears to make it feel good😂
@@Jacobtheunwise well, yeah. Fuel-injected 125cc that barely wheezed out 30 or so horsepower. Much better than their older carbureted brethren.
I’ve been eyeing a Trail 125 for months now, but I think I’m settling on a BMW 310GS.
Good old Harley Davidson. HD stands for hundred dollar. I got my hands on a 2019 street glide special and I’ve never looked back since. You’re definitely right when it comes to risking your life to ride though lol
9:11 Genuine question, how do you clean it without damaging the paint? I thought microfiber was the solution
"My tenth year risking my life pointlessly" is so on the money when it comes to riding in adelaide, in saying that tho im keen for a ride when ya get that beast back on the road mate
I ride, I love Wade, but we have completely opposite tastes in motorcycles, lol. Small displacement toe shifter standard bikes for me EVERY day.
Heck yeah, gotta rev the crap out of em! Started on a VTR250, now rode a versys-x 300. Great little bike!
@@Lolwutfordawin I have a 2021 RE Meteor 350 single and a 1978 Honda Hawk 400 twin. Fantastic bikes!
@@throughcracker6591 i think wade has completely opposite tastes in everything, and thats a part of what makes him amazing lol
I agree for the most part, but I gotta admit there's something cool about all that metal shaking at the end. All motorcycles are awesome.
I miss my old KZ250, it didn't go super fast but it sure felt like it. Test drove a friend's 1600cc bike a few years ago and I felt like I was sitting on top of a Volkswagen.
06:32 craig's brother jensen doin' audio honors.
11:50 South Park 😂
Quite fun that you post this as I'm in the middle of buying a 1999 motorcycle to become my daily driver. I hope we get to see more of Susie and motorbike shenanigans. Having her on the litre board would be kind of cool.
6:17 he gave in
What?
@@TheAutisticOwl he said "enshittification" without trying to go around it or just throwing the word on screen
@@segarallychampionship702 ah
Wonderful play on that album name btw. BoC is excellent.
@@thejay8963 that and campfire headphase are my favorite albums
So much lore being dropped in this video!! I really enjoyed this! I'm a Harley and Twin Cam owner so this was a treat!
Always been curious what the appeal would be for these bikes outside of America once you got away from the Ra Ra Patriotism. Turns out good noise, reliability, and simple to work on is a good selling point worldwide.
6:03 I HAVE ONE OF THESE! Love it. it's a '97 650 (we only got them till '04 in the UK) but still, i can completely see why they were sold for over 20 years.
I love those late 90's, early 2000's Harleys. It was so much fun to ride. Personally, I had a fat boy for a while before it decided it was done. Now got an mt-07
this is the best car channel on youtube
i dont care about cars at all yet this still entertains me
its kinda like old top gear
Even his engines swing at idle, what a powermove.
That's because those engines are rubber mounted to the frame, which gives them that travel. On the Softail models of harley, the engine was rigid mounted with a counterbalancer installed in it, so it didn't move like that.
It was quite pleasurable to sit and watch this next to my funny Lil 80's Yamaha 400 :>
You know what has a heel shifter that comes standard ? My dumb little Royal Enfield Meteor 350, and I love it
6:30 THE RADIO IS A JENSEN, THE GOLDEN NUGGET FROM THE NUGG DIP!!!!!!
Please don't die on it bro
what?
The good news is that motorcycles have a pretty similar survival rate to cars if you filter out the fatalities that occur when the riders are doing Dumb Biker Stuff.
So as long as Dank follows basic traffic safety he should be fine.
@@qhu3878statistically, more people die on motorbikes
If you manage to dump a bagger then that's 100% on you
@@SAMPLETEXT285even if it does that death wobble thing?
got me a 83 Honda cx650c that my dad gave me. never was a bike guy but i'mma ride that beast till there's nothin left. love it way more than i should. mad respect to die hard riders. i don't know how y'all do it.
20 KPH with the engine off is quite impressive
My family is a big biker fam, and if there’s one thing we believe in is that we don’t like Harley’s. My dad worked for the company and knew there was some shady shit going on with their bikes. We all own Honda’s and they are all more than 10 years old when we got them, with more than 10000 miles in each and they are BEASTS. Obviously things are gonna be replaced with time but you’re able to rebuild everything but the engine cuz it’ll just last forever. So fun to work on, super easy to understand and fix.
The late 90's really was when civilization peaked.
Both with cars and bikes, though bikes kept being good for longer.
I've been riding for about as long. Bought a Goldwing back in the day and I still ride it quite often. I love my dorky looking bagger. Just ticked over 130k miles on mine. It's still the go-to long trip vehicle for the Mrs and I, and with public transit replacing a car for anything close by, every vehicle I own now has 2 wheels.
That motorcycle needs a PKCELL battery
If would die to see you get into 2 stroke dirtbikes. They have great trails in the land down under
I didnt know the Australian known as dank pods rides a true Wisconsinite ride!
At this point wade has owned every vehicle in Australian history.
This isn't garbage time. This is rad time
It's very funny but also not that twice now you've bought a Nice Vehicle and surprise, it's a nugget. (Road Glide, Mercedes).
>buying a harley
Never stood a chance.
I got my Motorcycle license a year ago in 9 days, The day I got it my dad said "alright time to get my bike back on the road so we can go and ride", it has been a year and it's still off the road. good luck with your endeavors on repairing this beast!
2:10 the drip of oil is pretty much normal but the m8 motor is the worst they ever made please get another rode glide just get one from 2013 get a twin cam or twin cam 88
as a sportster 883 owner the "50 HORSEPOWER HAS NEVER FELT SO LOUD" is so real.
I never thought I would want to own a harley, my first bike was an 85 magna 500 vf500c and I always imagined I would go from that to something sportier but I rode a sportster 1 time and immediately knew i needed to vibrate.
i remeber this from the 1 mill vid
Beautiful bike appreciate you taking the time to show it off
I’ve waited literal years for a moto vid. YEARS
Excited for this new ep of the non bearded mechanic.
Thoughts on the Morgan 3 wheeler?
What a beauty. Just a couple cycles of the carb fuel booster and she fired right up no questions asked. Must be nice in comparison to how Tony just cranks for minutes at a time.
Can't wait to get my M license and blast around on a Ninja 400.
MORE MOTORBIKE CONTENT PLEASE
Also damn yeh i know what you mean about new engines. I just bought a new BSA 650 to take some slack off my nugget Enfield bullet, but its just not the same.
That said half of it is in the pipes though, i'll rip off the stock ones at somepoint, see how she sounds un-cucked.
Why is it called “garbage time” it’s to good of a time to be called garbage time!
This was originally just a channel with no theme. Later it was made into a Car theme. Dankpods asked about a new channel name fans said keep the name
Hearing your joy about this is just like my dad recently, who just got a bike again for the first time in a couple decades! He sold his back when I was a baby so he and mom could get a Family CarTM, but I'm almost 30 now so that hasn't mattered for a while lmao. I don't know a whole lot about bikes but I love them a lot cause my dad always has. Susie sounds beautiful!
Will this be on the litreboard?