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Win friends and Influence People

Join the Caledonia Harley Club of course!

Join the Club

If you mean the Cally:
Get to Rallies and meet the Club, attend Club Meetings,
get joined up, pay your fees, enjoy yourself.

If you're thinking of the Local Working Mens Institute.
I've no idea.

Recognise Club Members

Visual clues include:
wearing of kilts (sometimes by women!)
patches with mystic runes roughly translated as 'Caledonia Harley Club'
T-Shirts with "Probably the best..." on them
Audio clues:
A scottish accent - not compulsory, we have members from all over the world...even Fife!
Other pointer:
If after 9pm and at a rally and sober - then probably not a member.

Contact the Club/Committee

See our Management page!.

Get my knee down while cornering

7 or 8 pints of Old Peculier and the stagger back to the tent does it for me. Mind you all of me tends to get down in that state. If you mean while riding your Bike, I find my McFirefly patented 2 foot thick Knee sliders (available by post and all select stores) do the trick.

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Club Address

By clicking here

The love of my life

Look in the mirror - it works for me ;-). Or use our Classified Ads section.

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My Bike Work

Because with the Dole, FIS and invalidity pension it doesn't have to.
Or try here

The Government repeal the helmet laws

'Cos this is gettin more and more a 'Nanny' state where them in power (whatever bloody party) know best - however ill qualified and badly informed they are. Individuals mean less and less, you need a big voice and need to shout loud to be heard. All bikers should stick together or they'll have us riding 4 wheeled thingies with doors and a roof!.

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That Big White Flash I sometimes notice when riding along

Your Choice:
a) The Police/Fuzz/Old Bill/filth (delete as appropriate) using a GATSO camera to record your biking skills.
b) If near a Nuclear Power Station a none existent, harmless radiation release.
c) Too much dope.
d) If near a school, and Flash was wearing a dirty mac - the local pervert.
e) A Buell White lightning passing by.

The meaning of life

See 'the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy' and Don't Panic.

So good about Harleys

If you have to ask you'll never know - well I think thats the official answer

That special Harley Sound

The reason for the sound has to do with the way the engine is designed. A piston goes through the intake, compression, combustion and exhaust strokes every 2 revolutions of the crankshaft. When your lawn mower is idling you can hear the pop-pop-pop-pop sound of the individual strokes. What you are actually hearing is the sound of the compressed gases in the cylinder escaping when the exhaust valve opens. Each "pop" is the sound of the exhaust valve opening one time, and it happens on every second revolution of the crankshaft. Normally when an engine has two cylinders, the pistons are timed so that one fires on one revolution of the crankshaft and the other fires on the next revolution. One of the two pistons fires on every revolution of the crankshaft. This seems logical and gives the engine a balanced feeling. To create this type of engine, the crankshaft has two separate pins for the connecting rods from the pistons to connect to. The pins are 180 degrees apart from one another. A Harley engine has two pistons. The difference in the Harley engine is that the crankshaft has only one pin, and both pistons connect to it. This design combined with the V arrangement of the cylinders means that the pistons cannot fire at even intervals. Instead of one piston firing every 360 degrees, a Harley engine goes like this: the next piston fires at 315 degrees
there is a 405 degree gap
a piston fires
the next piston fires at 315 degrees
there is a 405 degree gap
and so on...
At idle you can hear the pop-pop sound followed by a pause. So its sound is pop-pop---pop-pop---pop-pop.

I think the above is from somewhere on the web - certainly not the Harley Site. So ..er apologies to whoever created the above. Any how the more interesting and quite regular noise is the CLACK - Grrr...Grrrrrrrr...Grrr which means you need new battery and/or regulator.

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The Wallace

Every spring bank holiday - Click here for this years things.

The end of the World

You'll have to ask your nearest (usually) religious fanatic. Some people believe it ended when Elvis died

This site going to get somebody who knows what they're doin running it

I resent the implication but unfortunately I can't deny it.

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