V-twin
Gaston's Garage provides full service maintenance and repair for your v-twin.
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(2008) A note from Eddie:
I've been riding Harley's since I was a teenager. My father rode a Duo-Glide, the first one in Richmond County, NC. When I told him I was going to buy my first bike he said, "that's great, just don't bring it home if it's not a Harley". In the twenty-five years since then I've ridden more than 250k miles and counting....
My first bike was a 1979 Fat Bob Superglide (AMF). I rode that bike for 30k miles and replaced the drivetrain three times myself - one transmission every 10k miles.
I was a charter member of the Raleigh H.O.G. group, along with my good friend, James Young. I rode a lot with James - whenever the sky was grey I'd look at him and he'd always say, "it never rains on Harley riders," and off we'd go. Well, after a long ride home from the beach in the pouring down rain with no windshield and no gear, I decided you're never too young to ride an "old-man's bike", and traded in my Fat Bob for a 1951 Duo-Glide.
I rode the Duo-Glide for 100k miles and rebuilt two engines. I also had a 1984 Electra Glide that I rode for 40k miles (good bike).
When I met my wife Tina and started traveling again I bought a 2000 Road King that we rode for two years and 43k miles until our wreck in Sturgis.
Our trip bike is a 2004 Screaming Eagle 103 Electra Glide with 130hp at the backwheel that we put 33k trip miles on over the three years before we opened the business. We will be hitting the road again soon!! In the meantime we still ride around locally - I have a 1997 Bad Boy Springer, and Tina has a 2002 Screamin' Eagle Road King.
Tina took the Rider's Edge course about 5 years ago and has been logging miles ever since. She started on a DynaGlide and after 4 months traded it in on a 2006 Softail Deluxe. After putting 15k miles on the Deluxe I found her a 2002 Screamin' Eagle Road King (purple with silver flames). I always told her once you go big you never go back and now she knows what I was talking about - as much as she loved the Deluxe she never rode it again after taking the Road King for a ride.
Tina and I have ridden 2up about 75k miles in the six years before we opened Gaston's - we've been coast-to-coast, down to the Keys, and up to Canada. In Sturgis in 2003 we were run over by a little old lady in a Suzuki Samarai. We were able to walk away but the bike wasn't so lucky - it wasn't able to make the return trip home and had to be shipped.
I had so many problems over the next few months trying to get the bike repaired correctly that I got fed up and decided to one day build a shop that people could trust and depend on - and now here I am doing just that.
I don't like being broken down or having leaks on the ground, and know you don't either. So come check us out and see what we have to offer.
Roll on,
Eddie
Photographer: My friend Ed McCall