Not now. But 12 years ago when this thread was started things were different. The 96 CI motors were just coming out. The VROD was faster but if you were just talking air cooled Harleys the Sportster was pretty quick.

 

Perfect
Only the Spectator wins Every Round!!!!
If my Molested Sporty only ran 12's I would be a bit Upset!!!!!

 

Would I be me if I didn't? Bouncing on my head didn't break my b.s. meter or close the logical response division.

Fantasy land is real.

 

I see that accident didn't knock any since into your head. You are as full of **** as always.

 

yes, it all logically follows

 

I'm new to this forum and feel like I need to defend the Sporty reputation just a little. I ride with 3 buddies, one on a 2019 Road glide, 114, one on 2019 CVO Street glide, 117, and the 3rd rides a 2019 Breakout. They all had at least 3000 miles on them, so new wasn't the issue. None of them could touch me from any point of playing around under 80 mph.The Breakout was the fastest of the three and the best out of the box. We were back and forth on runs so we called it even after 5. All runs were from a roll at various speeds with all the bikes. The Road glide and Street glide guys both went out and spent between $2k and $3k out of embarrassment to make their $30k & $40k bikes fast enough to play with the little guy, me on my 1200 sporty. Yes, now we all run pretty close and play well together up til 85/90 mph when the c.i. really shows off. But I'm still proud to ride my 1200 and keep them in their place for the most part.
When we ride we do between 200 and 350 miles a day. Living in Florida allows 12 month riding and the best is during the winter months. I've worked hard at making my sportster into a cruiser for comfort and still maintaining a look that is pleasing to "my" eyes. It gets a lot of compliments even sitting next to the new, shiny, expensive big boys! This is my 9th sportster and I have owned many H.D. models over the years along with metric and Big Dog bikes. Gotta love the sporty at my age, light weight, quick and easy to maintain.
Happy New Year and Ride Safe!

 

^ Correcta-Mundo!!! Although I am somewhat envious of anyone who owns a V-Rod Night Special. Here's an excellent vid of the V-Rod doing what it was designed to do. Although I wouldn't square off against a damn Beemer effectively trashing the rep of an HD by doing it. I wonder how reliable the V-Rod was because I don't think it was nowhere near as dependable as the Sportster. But it WAS a helluva lot faster. I think in the HD line it was the Corvette while the Sportster is a Camaro.

https://www.hotcars.com/harley-david...d-real-reason/

 

0-60 both the v-rod and the live wire are quicker the v-rod is the fastest hd the sportster this the 3rd quickest you can go to the web site zero to 60 times and compare all bikes 0- 60 times and 1/4 mile times

 

For $17k it had better be FAST. The Buell Black Lightning was supposedly around 3.5secs I think. But it was never more than a demo.

 

the 1130cc v-rod was 3.5 sec 0-60 the 1250 v-rod was 3.7 sec the live wire is 3.2 sec
it would have been nice had my old v-rod had only been 17k