Old age = Harley

I love when people say a "clunky" Harley. what exactly is "clunky" about a Harley? The same suspension that comes on all Honda motorcycles?

i had a bagger, a FLHX Street Glide, a Buell, a sporty and a softail. Ill buy another Street Glide soon enough. I miss my old one but downsizing was part of the economy. Love to cruise! I bought my Street Glide at 27..... I guess I was ahead of the mid life crises curve LOL

clunky refers to the retarded vibrations and rattling that causes things to shake loose. also the transmissions are far from smooth. it's a matter of opinion that i don't like harleys, i've ridden street glides, fat boys, sportsters, night trains, the only one i liked was the street glide and even that just didn't suite me well. Don't even get me started on the Buell's, those things are slow as hell for all the displacement, they're junk too. My 600 (nearly half the displacement) can run with a lightning no problem and i won't have to stop to fix something after 5k miles.

again, no hard feelings here fellas, this is just my opinion.

here's my buddies buell alongside my beater taken back in my college days.

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I'll buy a Harley when I'm 120, since I figure I'll be dead by then and that's the only way I would buy one.

LOL Ill call you when your 119

LOL Ill call you when your 119

Ha! Sounds good, I'll buy one of yours from you lol!

clunky refers to the retarded vibrations and rattling that causes things to shake loose. also the transmissions are far from smooth. it's a matter of opinion that i don't like harleys, i've ridden street glides, fat boys, sportsters, night trains, the only one i liked was the street glide and even that just didn't suite me well. Don't even get me started on the Buell's, those things are slow as hell for all the displacement, they're junk too. My 600 (nearly half the displacement) can run with a lightning no problem and i won't have to stop to fix something after 5k miles.

 

again, no hard feelings here fellas, this is just my opinion.

 

here's my buddies buell alongside my beater taken back in my college days.

http://www.offtopic.forum/uploads/imported/2012/04/100_0099-1.jpg

i agree. also the motors are still ancient push rod and air cooled, slow and unreliable

An older friend of mine has been riding bikes ALL his life, so about 40 years or more, and mostly Hondas. For whatever reason he decided to get a top-of-the-line Harley, don't know what it's called, all I know is the UPS man saw it and told me it was the "nicest" Harley you can buy. Anyway, he says that the harley will not pull itself up a hill. He is riding and is constantly downshifting until he is in third gear just to pull a hill. He tells me that his '86 Gold Wing Aspencade is a much better performing bike and will pull hills in 6th gear no problem. Yet, he still loves the Harley even though it goes through tires and brakes three times faster than his newer Gold Wing and it is in the shop frequently. Oh, and over the winter he had to do a big bore, cams, and pipes just to get the Harley to pull it's own weight on the road.

I'm not bashing, just relating a true story.

If you want to mod your harley, these guys did my Street Glide and were top notch. They just so happen to be in Prescott, Az

http://www.GMRperformance.com

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it's not too uncommon in the harley world, they are torque monsters.

which has me wondering about hoser's friends new state of the art harley. IF there's one thing a harley can do it's maintain speed up a hill (with 2 passengers while pulling a trailer), with all that torque they should not be losing speed or requiring a down shift like the jap bikes do. On some harleys the last gear is strictly highway, so maybe if he's in 6th and approaches a hill, that last gear is real low for smooth cruising, he should be in 5th if he's on some hilly roads, i still find it hard to believe that the hog won't hold speed up a hill at cruising speeds, especially with all the torque they've got.

Wow that is some impressive torque! It's not often you see a graph with higher torque then hp

They do a lot bigger build then that too

Harley and Buell dominate NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle drag racing. Harley's also do pretty well on the AMA Pro mile dirt tracks. In stock form, Harley's are anemic in comparison to the metric bikes....kinda like a bone stock 04-05 trx450 compared to a stock LTR450.

buell and harley can take the nhra straight line drags, i'll stick to my motogp bikes

Never really had a huge interest in street bikes but I had a supermoto for a while and that was fun, and I missed it so a few years later I did get a street bike (actually when I turned 40), only a little SV650 but's a fun thing for cruising where I live. I parked it outside a bike shop not long after I had it and when I came out a Truimph Rocket was parked next to it.. talk about inferiority complex! Now if I do go all out cruiser it's probably gonna be a Triumph Rocket. Would like to maybe do a Harley in between..maybe..

Cool vid of how they make the Triumph Rocket

[video=youtube;HKEuzxC4eGc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEuzxC4eGc&feature=player_embedded