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biker7 wrote: | With the FP3 my throttle is set to Race |
What sort of racing do they have in mind? ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Nobby the Bastard Harley Gaydar
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Such twaddle written by some. Harley vs Other; my attitude vs your attitude, etc. etc.
Ride your bike - enjoy your bike. If it's not as fast as others, doesn't draw admiring looks, doesn't corner like some fast cornering thing - so what? Ride your bike - enjoy etc.
I bought my first and only Harley in 1965, a WL45 rebuild by Fred Warr when he had the shop in King's Road (the Fulham end) and another round the corner in Waterford Rd. The King's Rd. shop was magical back then, had a smell of its own, a cross between oil, petrol and leather. Monster machines on display, engines, posters.
Hand change, foot clutch, Castle forks, three foot wide handlebars - this wasn't what we were brought up on in the UK, but it was glorious. This was where Roy Rogers met Union Pacific style-wise.
That bike took me to work every day, anywhere and everywhere I wanted to ride at weekends, visiting relations hundreds of miles away in all weather conditions, and was the only bike I have ridden in snow that didn't throw me off. Never did it break down, and whilst the ladies liked it, my greatest pleasure was riding country lanes (even 'green lanes') slow and steady, listening to that exhaust, or just cruising along at 55mph. If I had the opportunity to have just one bike of all that I have owned, and all that may be currently available, that old 45 would be it.
I rode it through my teens and early twenties, and was stupid enough (not to mention skint) to have sold it for a few hundred quid in the mid seventies.
Don't compare Harleys to any other bike. It's like comparing a particular fine wine to whisky. You choose what you like.
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I would actually buy a Harley. Bickering aside, I'm sure after so many decades they can't be any worse than Lexmoto, and there's more models than the Ducati Scrambler
After visiting most major manufacturers websites, I find there's a bit of a lack of choice in the cruiser area tbh, Harley could probably fill that gap, the street rods ain't thaaaaat expensive, just 1k more than the new Rebel, which I tried and didn't like.
Personally, I think they need more smaller cc cheaper bikes, because I'd argue that's what gets youngsters hooked, try the small bike, love it, get the big one when you pass your A2/A test. I love my bike CB400, but when I pass my A, I'm gonna get a CB900.
Quality/Handling wise, never ridden or owned one, so I can not comment. Still, I would never argue a cruiser is better because it handles better than most bikes...that is not what cruisers are made for, I've read many reviews of "sporty" or "scrambler" cruisers, they're always a let down in that department, because that is not what they were made for.
But as many say, any bike can be your forever bike and take you most places. Hell my dad took is firs car, an Opel/Vauxhall Corsa A 1000cc EVERYWHERE, toured through eastern europe, when he lived in the countryside in his 20s the roads where unpaved and more rut than anything else, and it worked for him. He still thinks it was one of his best cars, even if most will agree it's a shitty cheap cage.
I initially wanted a cruiser when I first thought about biking, but when I finally got around to it, I didn't like the ones I dreamed about any more, was much more into standards/nakeds/"""scramblers""", but I still like some cruisers, right now that would be a late model Honda Magna, but could just as well be some har har har har har ley. ____________________
Lexmoto Valiant 125; 94 CB400; 96 CB750F2; 81 CB750 (restoring, lol not gonna happen); 2001 ZX9R(It's about to go :c); 2012 R1200R; 2015 R1200RS |
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So we can't compare Harleys to... an Indian
The only thing we could seriously have a discussion on is "do they offer value for money?"
When I was considering either an Iron 883 or the Vulcan S (i.e. chalk vs cheese) one central theme through all the reviews was "this makes a great starting point" for the HD and "you'd better like it as it is 'cos there's feck all you can do with the Vulcan and, actually, feck all that needs doing."
I think that's just the Jap mentality with vehicles though: all the options come as standard
Question: if you spent 6 bags on the Kwak versus 6 bags on a Harley and then spent another 2 bags on the latter just to get it "perfected" would you expect the HD to sell for substantially more in say 3 or 4 years 'cos of the work you'd put into it?
I'm all for personalising a bike and making it your own but HDs seem event more of a money pit than most. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Comparing a 65 year old Harley with a 65 year old brit or italian bike was fair do's, but even then Jap tech was better.
These days, comparing 60s tech (because thats they still really are) against a 21st century bike is pointless, as you say.
The only real equivelent are the Enfields coming out of India. |
True, though the 1964 Honda CB72 gearbox seized on me twice during warantee, and the later CX500's I ran had generator failures and cam chain slipper tensioner failures, and the Bosch generators on the BMW ('78 R80/7) would fail, and their valve heads drop off, just as the Guzzi V50 did. Replace the V50 valves every 45,000 miles so one wag says. I did run mine to 100,000, so can't complain. I reckon they're good for 70,000, but your chancing it after that.
The Borg & Beck replacement clutch I fitted in the R80 stripped its rivets in less than 2,000miles, replaced f.o.c., and the AP clutch in the Guzzi would self destruct, sending small pieces of broken spring around the bell housing in a 3-4,000rpm blender, eventually spitting them out the timing bung hole (where'd that bung go to??) and brushing past your leg. The joys etc.
Guzzi fun:
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So could this one, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzhc3i0PRY
I'd think it's more to do with the rider than the bike.
It does look lovely though. I'd trade my bike that in the couple times my gf decides she wants to go to Margate. ____________________
Lexmoto Valiant 125; 94 CB400; 96 CB750F2; 81 CB750 (restoring, lol not gonna happen); 2001 ZX9R(It's about to go :c); 2012 R1200R; 2015 R1200RS |
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Yeah, good luck with a UK cul-de-sac ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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This is the road outside my old house (and thats my car, the blue C1 to the right in the parking space.)
I used to ride down the rhs of the road, do a u-turn and go up onto the pavement where the disabled space (dropped curb) behind the car on the left so that I could then reverse the bike onto my front path.
https://i.imgur.com/BXKB8ko.jpg
to put it here.
https://i.imgur.com/R0XQKr4.jpg
I'd like to see a fatpig do that. And that was on my FZ and my exup, without feet going down. Sports bikes are famed for their lack of steering lock....
(Ornamental cherry tree before you ask. Rosewarn close in Bath, before you ask, posh as fuck, I am.) ____________________ trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
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Nobby the Bastard wrote: | This is the road outside my old house (and thats my car, the blue C1 to the right in the parking space.)
I used to ride down the rhs of the road, do a u-turn and go up onto the pavement where the disabled space (dropped curb) behind the car on the left so that I could then reverse the bike onto my front path.
https://i.imgur.com/BXKB8ko.jpg
to put it here.
https://i.imgur.com/R0XQKr4.jpg
I'd like to see a fatpig do that. And that was on my FZ and my exup, without feet going down. Sports bikes are famed for their lack of steering lock....
(Ornamental cherry tree before you ask. Rosewarn close in Bath, before you ask, posh as fuck, I am.) |
Did you just give Ste your home address?! ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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Pfffft, I already know his address, he lives a couple of hundred meters up the road from me.
Things get sent there in the post like free samples of incontinence pants. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 218 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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