I have read all sorts of things about the flathead on the internet, but most of it was just articles and stuff and from my experience people writing those often times don't have a clue what they are writing about.
In general I have a feeling that the flathead is often forgoten, everybody just talks about the OHVs, I would say 99% of the builds i see are OHV bikes. Are Flatheads any good? I mean the moco built them for like 41years and didn't change to many things. Looking at the inside of those engines, I find them very simple, the 4 cams remind me of the sportster. Over all I can see nothing wrong with them, even tho I never owned ore rode one, of course. But somehow i keep reading that they are bad and unreliable engines and that is what i believed for a long time. Then i saw a video of pacific mike on YT, he was about to rebuild a 80ci flathead and he said, ''they have big heavy flywheels and once the start going down the road they don't really want to stop''. Since then I am somehow intrigued by them and really wanna know the truth.
MIke
In general I have a feeling that the flathead is often forgoten, everybody just talks about the OHVs, I would say 99% of the builds i see are OHV bikes. Are Flatheads any good? I mean the moco built them for like 41years and didn't change to many things. Looking at the inside of those engines, I find them very simple, the 4 cams remind me of the sportster. Over all I can see nothing wrong with them, even tho I never owned ore rode one, of course. But somehow i keep reading that they are bad and unreliable engines and that is what i believed for a long time. Then i saw a video of pacific mike on YT, he was about to rebuild a 80ci flathead and he said, ''they have big heavy flywheels and once the start going down the road they don't really want to stop''. Since then I am somehow intrigued by them and really wanna know the truth.
MIke
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