Is there something wrong with this harley?

Question

Now most harleys I hear at stop lights, sound something like this...

potato-potato...*wet f**t* potato potato potato..*wet f**t*

then when I hear them disappear into my mirrors it's a quickly deadening wet f**t...

this bike I heard the other day sounded more like *tomato tomato tomato*, was there something wrong with it?

Answer 1

Hi4 ignition Thats why i dont like them

At least they dont sound like a cat with its tail caught in a door

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure that means they installed a supercharger...

Answer 3

yeah

it had a child listening to it

Answer 4

Wrong fuel

Answer 5

The potato exhaust sound is typically distinctive of the water jacketed VROD (poor resale value). The tomato sound is more typical of their air cooled tractor engine (outdated technology) that gets dusted by the superior Victory V twin. Yes, even the 92 Cubic Inch version.

Answer 6

I'll take ANY sound over the high pitch "whining" sound that comes from ur sport bike as you are compensating for the size of your manhood by being dressed like you're some professional racer...... showing everyone how fast you can go on public roadways.

You got cut from every sports team you ever tried out for didn't you ?

EDIT:  h**l yeah "Mad Jack"..... Say it loud !!!  Perfect answer !!!

Answer 7

If you are happy with your own ride. What difference does it make what other people want to ride?

Answer 8

let me educate you, that distinctive sound is actually a missfire.both pistons and conrods are connected to the crank by a common crankpin.the conrods are siamesed together in a knife and fork desighn. the result is that both pistons travel up and down together at the same time.So its a missfire. when they went to fuel injection they actually had to program that missfire in because the damnb things ran to smooth!!!! They were worried that people wouldnt like them. as for being fast we all know a stock hog isnt. however there are plenty of guys like me with god awfull modified and very fast v twins. you dont have a chance against 120 cubic inches dude. you should see what 150 inch merch total performance motors are like. Alot of the bikes out there arent Harley Davidsons at all but are based on Harley desighn but not an oil leaking Harley part in them.and most Harley guys arent in a hurry,they just wanna putt along. My uncles 71 shovel cruises just fine at 70 and thats what it was made to do. if ya wanna go fast buy a sport bike or build a serious custom. I go hunting for gixxers and smoke em all the time.but check this out I am shoving a gixxer motor in a ridgid frame gonna be the chopper from h**l!!!!! I only wanna go fast in a straight line!!!you dont like crusers cool but check out the aftermarket you might be surprised at the horsepower a lot of us come with.

Answer 9

The guy must of bought the Tomato cam. My boss has the dying bullfrog cam in his Hardly.

"you dont have a chance against 120 cubic inches dude" omg, this guy has no idea of what power is... "Cruises quite fine at 70" - well, a Suzuki GSXR1000 does over 100mph in first gear. Let's see, we got five more gears to go, hmmm.

EDIT: You can't hear a Harley until it goes by?? HAHHAHA I can hear an idiot coming up my road a mile away at 1 AM!

Answer 10

What is your big beef with Harley?  Nearly all of your questions are diggs against them.

Why are you really so concerned?

You don't make payments on my bike, I don't make payments on yours.  So what does it matter on what anyone rides, as long as they ride.

Or maybe is it that you got recently got your butt kicked by some Harley biker babe?

If you really want to know, why not go to a better source.  Find a biker bar with lots of Harleys parked outside.  Belly up to the bar and start asking around.  Surely someone there will be knowledgeable enough about Harleys to answer your question.

Answer 11

Wait you seen a harley making noise, usually i see them broken down on the side of the road

Answer 12

There might wrong with, but I'm not an expert

Answer 13

Impossible. Everyone knows that a Harley with loud pipes cannot be heard from behind you. They can only be heard once they have passed you. Which in your case, is as improbable as you getting clocked by police radar. Loud pipes do not save lives. Fun time is over, time to go back to work.

Answer 14

That is actually a pretty funny description of how a HD sounds. Remember a wet f**t isn't something to laugh about. What would scare you more:

a: A chrome skull?

b: A wet f**t?

Chrome skulls haven't scared me since I was a little kid, but even at my age, a wet f**t can have me shuffling carefully to the bathroom to check my drawers.

If it sounded like "tomato tomato tomato," maybe the mixture was too rich. Did you get a heavy V8 smell when you pulled up next to them?

Edit:

Chopperchopster? That isn't at all why the HD engine makes that sound. There isn't a miss at all. Both pistons fire one right after the other and then rotate something like 415 degrees before they both fire again. So you get a pop-pop-pause effect when you hear the engine idle.

As far as beating a GSXR with a chopper? Even stepping up to a well ridden GSXR600 would be a stretch. Even then, you better hold the race to city block or so. Challenge a 750 or a 1,000 with a good rider, and you would just embarass yourself.

Answer 15

It has the saliminilla(?) poisening

Answer 16

Tomato, tomato, tomato...... definitely a compression problem!  Now if it were a tomatoe - tomatoe sound it would be a compression problem in Ohio.

Answer 17

are you some kind of downsie? harleys werent built to go a million mph like your friends bike that you are pictured on

Answer 18

another jealous crotch rocket rider !

Answer 19

theres something wrong with ALL harleys

Answer 20

Wrong fertilizer !!