Glide PATH

The last time I wrote an article for RC I had just acquired a Harley-Davidson, a 1977 FLH1200 Electra Glide. Now I’m back, but with a 2001 FXDX-T. I blame Editor Frank for this – partly – and also I acknowledge the good and bad times I enjoyed with the Electra Glide.

I had the Electra Glide for a little over a year and 5000 miles. In that time, I found it to be mostly reliable, comfortable, heavy, slow, numb, pretty, idiosyncratic, remarkably able, hard work, and many other things too. It was like many bikes of its age; a victim of many hands and much love and abuse. It could have been a great bike, but to be the great bike I wanted it needed to be stripped down and rebuilt. Entirely possible, but not what I wanted to do at the time. So away it went and I was Harleyless for a while. I’ll confess I missed having the great numb thing.

A little later, I bought the black bike pictured here. This particular one was first registered in May 2001 and then owned by the same