Today I have been...

Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

...mostly joy-riding Harleys. Well, two to be precise; the 48 and the Slim. And what have I discovered? That if my thighs point up all my weight goes onto the base of my cocyx and the numbness within ten miles makes it a non goer.

The seats can be changed for one three inches higher and two inches back and the foot-boards can be changed for pegs (they're lower) but it's all a palaver. Lovely rides though.
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Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

You're getting old Hetz, or were you just enjoying the ah hem "vibrations".
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TheSmiler · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Apr 2011 Karma :

Every time I hear you mention Harley's this is what comes to mind.
https://i.imgur.com/6rqwhLm.jpg
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henry hoover · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 May 2013 Karma :

I thought the comfy seat on the 883 was the only thing it had going for it
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

*cough* Buell *cough*

https://www.farson.com/buell/m2ken854.jpg
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

ScaredyCat · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 May 2012 Karma :

Try a Yamaha XV950 instead, more upright seating position.
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

I've been eyeing up the Kawasaki VN1700 Classic. But it'll probably suffer from the same problem (made for midgits).
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mr jamez · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Karma :

To look at I quite like the guzzi california, it doesn't have the stigma of a Harley either.
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Clanger · Stirrer Joined: 27 May 2004 Karma :

Did you go to the Harley dealers up the A22?
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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

It all depends what you want from the bike, the Hardleys are mainly image, how you want others to see you.
Perhaps that is what some enjoy about biking?
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reed · Nearly there... Joined: 28 Oct 2012 Karma :

Harleys are gay.
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Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Have you considered a ~~KTM~~ BMW?

Got that whole Gestapo-chic going for them.
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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

Pigeon · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Sep 2012 Karma :

Quite like the Fatboy Softail

That being said, for spending 6mths riding around America, not the UK.......Although, having seen loads of Harley's out this year, packs of them, shining in the British sun. Am starting to get the appeal.

Each to their own.

hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I wondered that about the 48, thought it looked too long-slung and you'd have to lean backwards. That's why I considered the XR.

How about getting an old Armstrong MT350 or 500* ... good for tall guys and they're "still" a kinda Harley but just WAY cooler, with street cred coming out their ears.

Although Thinking

... possibly not the engine size you're after Laughing

Can you swap engines in them things?
/noclue Embarassed

*I am desperate to get my hands on one of them.
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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

here you go.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Armstrong-MT500-/181188276606?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2a2fa9b17e
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keggyhander · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Karma :

Hetzer wants a Harley, not something that looks like an East German 125.

hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Well maybe an XR is a better sit-upright sort of bike, than all that sofa-lounging forward-controls sort of style that seem to be de rigeur with the other kinds.
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