It depends on your purpose, and the handlebars on mine vibrated intensely, causing finger tingling.

 

04 1200R nice

 

This is the picture that inspired me to get one . And after a two year search I did get one , right down to the colour .

 

Well it looks like my 1200-S just went up in value, like by $10 or $15 bucks! Yahoo! I'm on Easy Street now....

I wish they had used a picture of an S with the OEM paint scheme; that bike was repainted. The original paint scheme is iconic to the S model.

 

HMMMM..."XR1200, the sportiest Sportster ever created, and a bike straight out of left field. The XR1200 was a street tracker styled sport bike, WITH RADICAL TINGS l... While maintaining the American legendary design, the wider aluminum tank"

Gotta love those "radical tings" actually the egregious comment is that it has an aluminimum tank- NO it has a carbon (plastic?") tank that expands and pops off the cover- a flaw never really addressed or acknowledged by harley- Ducati had the same issue with theirs. It's a known issue among XR owners and annoying in such an otherwise amazing machine. I love mine nevertheless.

 

Man I dodged the bullet on that, my tank never swelled. that made me extremely happy.

 

XL883. Anytime someone with a big twin bagger gives me **** about a sportster I respond with "Well it did well when it took me up into Canada and back", which usually is followed up with "You took that thing up into Canada and back? With only a swingarm bag?" "Yep" "Youre crazy man" 883 Sportsters are solid bikes and arguably the most bulletproof engine Harley offers since they were designed to be 1200, they can take pretty much any beating. Ride them anywhere and everywhere.

 

Some Dudes say Sportster are Girls bikes, I say "what you don't like Girls"?

 

 

I must be a girl then, dag nammit.