No. Thank you. I was beginning to wonder if this forum WAS for Harley enthusiasts. If I wanted to complain about my Harley, this is the last place I would think to do it. So far, I have nothing to complain about. To the contrary, actually I couldn't be happier.

 

My stock '05 Dyna runs nice and crisp up to 100 or so, I don't have any problems bouncing it off red line in every gear and it scoots along quite nicely. With my loud pipes it gets there a little quicker still but I like it nice and quiet so I'm running Harley script baloney cuts and a K&N in the stock airbox....runs just fine.

If you want your HD to go faster try twisting the throttle, TC88's love to rev and pull real nice around 5k or so, if I want to go faster than that I ride my Suzuki Bandit which will go way faster than I need to be going on public streets

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Actually, I think Terry has the final say here. And, you have properly defined your asses here if you don't like HD. [sm=loser.gif]

 

You can say whatever ya want about yer Gayabusa and yer Kawasucky but this ride will blow 'em both back to Tokyo!

 

MNPGRider: Good work and good info.

austiny: EXACTLY.

 

Here is a true story that happened to me today. I was on my way into town on a two lane road. I stopped at the light and noticed a sports bike rolling up behind me. The road changes to 4 lanes across the intersection. There were about three or four cars in front of me but I knew I could pass them on the right into the right lane across the intersection. So I gave her some throttle and flew off when the light changed.

When I was past the group of cars and across the road I saw the sports bike behind me keeping a safe distance. (The road goes back to 2 lanes for a short distance.) We ended up together at the next light. The guy on the sports bike, a Honda said, "What have you done to the engine? I could not hardly catch up with you!" I said it was a 95 CI with a cam. He lookedlike he could not believea Harley could be fast. LOLI sure surprised him.

Like I have said,Japanese bikes, been there done that and there is no bike like a Harley. :-D[sm=biker.gif]

 

I think most people would think of "stock production" to mean street legal. So I dont beleive the VRod destroyer fits into that catagory, no matter how its advertised. You can go buy production race cars from ford and chevrolet, and yes they would be "stock" race cars. But they are not "stock" They are highly modified versions of the production vehicle built to be "turn key" race ready. Same goes for the VRod destroyer. So you cant fairly compare the VRod destroyer to anything, unless you compare it to one of the "production" metric racebikes. And those arent built for drag racing, so it still isnt a proper comparison.
But then , who really gives a rats ***? Just ride and enjoy it. Modern Harleys ARE competitive performance wise with LIKE motorcycles( those in the 95 cu" range) No it probably wont stomp a 125" metric( Kawasakis Vulcan 2000) cruiser, but why do you think it should?

 

It's sad to see this thread turned into a huge flame war over who said what about whatever. The bottom line is, this thread was created by theoriginal posterto show that v-twin metric bikes andHD bikes perform similarly if they have a similarengine size-- which should be fairly reasonable.

 

If you kids are talking about "girls", you may be right. But a real woman knows a Harley. You'll probablyhave to take my word on that.

 

forever? never? dont ask for whom the bell tolls