I love Sportsters. I'm dying to get ahold of one and bob it out. The Nightster and 48 are killer bikes.

 

Rode a Heritage Softail for years. Got rid of it and just bought a Sporty 48. Don't plan on taking it on any long trips but I really, no I mean REALLY like this Sporty. It'll just blow the doors off my Softail - that is if it had doors. Sportys are great bikes. Wouldn't have survived this long if they weren't.

 

Agree w/all - really hated parting w/my 05 XL1200C, but wanted a bigger ride for longer trips - thus the FLHX. Definitely will add one to my stable again someday b/c they're fast & fun for scooting around. Look'n to get a 48, or Nightster when my glide's paid off.

 

Just purchased a new sporty xl1200 last month. My first bike was a sporty when I was 14. What a difference. No I'm not a girl but 235 lb, 6'1 and muscle. This bike will do things my old chopper couldn't do. Last weekend I pulled-off into a pine forest 40 ft. down a slope to camp. It was a bear to turn around (540 lbs) wet. Yet I rode it up the embankment easily. Do that with Eltra Glide. No I can't two-up but who wants to. Yes it does sound funny, unlike the old engines. And it doesn't shake me like the old 63 I had. But I still feel the suspension when I hit a pothole like my old hard tail. The new sporty has a lot of good things like: brakes, halogen headlight, electric starter, auto choke, belt drive... Belts don't break like a chain when you are going 90 and wrap around rear sprocket. This experience in-its-self is worth not having, all of you that are younger than 62. Remember Evel Knievel didn't ride an Eltra Glide for his jumps.