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Old 08-06-2014, 05:38 PM  
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Originally Posted by mikesouth View Post
My days of riding like that are long gone truth is head gasket leaks are common on many harleys that are ridden a lot, most people don't even notice them, except that it will backfire a bit.
It happens because of the air cooling mostly, the rapid expansion and compression of the metal.
This is the first I've ever heard of this issue on a modern Harley, my bike has 30k miles and just passed a compression check so I can get an extended factory warranty, if the motors were such a repair problem I don't think Harley would be selling a 5 year warranty on any Harley that's under 12 years old and less than 75,000 miles.


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Bikes are my primary means of transpo I actually have a Suzuki Burgman 650 that has almost 100 K miles all I have ever done to it are brakes tires and fluid changes....chicks like riding the Harley the first time, after that they always wanna go on the Burgman more comfy and quieter and burn guards on the pipes so no heat there...
Wow! the Burgman certainly is the epitome of cool


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