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Do you think HD will go to a water cooled Softail/Fat Boy in the near future ? Or will they remain air/oil cooled bikes ?
 
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Originally Posted by yankees1996
Do you think HD will go to a water cooled Softail/Fat Boy in the near future ? Or will they remain air/oil cooled bikes ?
I'd say a shop or a bloke might do it first , the bagger engines will fit a Softy frame ?
I don't know.
 
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In about seventeen years they might.
 
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M8 Bagger motors can't be shoe horned in to a M8 softail frame prot I got no ideas ?
 
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Originally Posted by badcooky
M8 Bagger motors can't be shoe horned in to a M8 softail frame prot I got no ideas ?
M8 is scheduled to be replaced in 2034.
 
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It's just be grafting some wet heads on a M8 Softy and some fabrication , how hard could it be !
 
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I can't imagine Harley ever voluntarily making its cruise bikes liquid cooled. The bleats of outrage from the nouveau traditionalists would be enough to break the internet.
 
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Not a fan of the new fatboy......Looks like a hybrid between traditional fatboy and V-Rod....And the V-Rod IMO should never have been introduced into the harley line.
 
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Not a fan of the new fatboy......Looks like a hybrid between traditional fatboy and V-Rod....And the V-Rod IMO should never have been introduced into the harley line.
This is what I love about the new Fat Boy looks !
 
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Originally Posted by yankees1996
Do you think HD will go to a water cooled Softail/Fat Boy in the near future ? Or will they remain air/oil cooled bikes ?
Somebody already did, in 2004 and it's 125 cubic inches. Vulcan 2000. I still have it. It corners like a Buss, pulls like a Freight train.
 
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