The Low Down:
Make/Model: 2006 H-D Dyna Super Glide
Engine: Twin Cam 88 H-D
Owner: Harold Goff – East Ridge, TN
Photos: “Tom the Bomb” Blevins
If you are truly a Harley fanatic, a lot of the pictures here (and on our Web site) will probably confuse you. What you are looking at is an ’06 Dyna Superglide. I know, I know, it doesn’t look like one… Starting with the front end, it has Heritage Softail triple tree and tins. It has 4-inch over Dyna Wide Glide downtubes and 2007 Road King bottom legs. It also has a Road King gas tank (and console) and Road King fenders. As if that wasn’t strange enough, it’s been converted to right-hand shift. Why? You need only look to this bike’s owner, Harold. Where I grew up, Harold would be considered a “character.” Friendly and outspoken, intelligent and humorous, Harold knows how to tell a story, and you just can’t help but like him. He lost his left leg (and almost his life) in a horrific motorcycle accident. In his own words, he says, “I ran out of road and experience at the same time.” However, he barely let it slow him down. Throughout the hospital stays, surgeries, pain and frustration, this Vietnam era Marine has maintained a phenomenally great attitude. Harold and his good friends Red and Eddie not only do a lot toward boosting the local economy through beer purchases, but they also apparently do fairly well customizing motorcycles. The rear-end for Harold’s trike is a kit sold by “Frankenstein Trikes.” Harold maintains that although his bike’s entire transformation took around three months, installing the trike kit took three hours and 29 minutes: him and Red arguing about how to do it for three hours, and Ed turning bolts for 29 minutes. Harold is impressed so far with the trike’s handling and performance, but Red pointed out that the front brake doesn’t quite hold tight enough during a burnout… Did I mention these guys are crazy?
Oh, I almost forgot… Red is looking for a girlfriend. He says he’d like to find one who has a limp: one who isn’t in a wheelchair but still gets a check. If you need any advice on what kind of trike kit to buy, or any other important decisions (like how to wire up a Road King console to a Dyna or utilize a 9/16 Craftsman combination wrench as a shifter linkage), all you have to do is ask Harold, Red and Ed. If you do happen to catch them out and about (or if you happen to ride by and notice them having another driveway party), ask Harold to sign your copy of Road Rash Magazine. Special thanks goes out to Harold and the rest of the “May Street Crip(ple)s” for their hospitality and patience, to my sis Lana for helping me hunt down our photo location.
