Bought an 08,883Xl last may and joined the local Hog chapter nice folks but seem like a few with the big twins turn their nose up at the folks riding the Sportsters! Dont get me wrong I love my bike was all I could afford at the time and have put quite a bit into it,SE II slip-ons,Mustang solo seat,HD detach windshield,ghost brackets, and studded bags,relocated blinker,custom chrome liscense plate. Thinking bout trading up to a Dyna Street Bob but the wife might have a cow,anyhow when they introduced new members they asked each person what they ride some of other folks said Dynas,RK's,and utras and people cheered them when I said 883 Sportster things were quiet and one dude in the back said get a real bike! Harleys are expensive and not all of have a lot of bread to laydown on a new skoot.I ride every chance I can have logged almost 4300 miles since last May and have loved it all!Have you other folks run into this Im the type who dont care what ya ride as long as you ride.

 

You probably put on more miles than the rest of the weekend riders. Sounds like you need to find some new people to ride with rather than upgrading. They sound like a bunch of garage queen posers.

 

Outrageous. Doubt I would go to another one of those! I havn't been to our chapters meetings, but plan to go for the first ride this spring. Hopefully it isn't full of a bunch of douche bags.

 

Sportsters are great bikes and if you like it thats all that matters. I would probably own one if I wasn't 6'2 and 260 pounds. I had a 1986 XLCH, great bike and it never let me down. Guys that give you crap for what you ride aren't worth talking to or getting to know anyway.

 

HaHA dude ditch the local R.U.B. chapter and go find some real bikers to ride with. Most of your Indy shop will have rides or once a month dinners go with them. God I wish I would have been there.

 

haha you can do it! 6'3 270 here!

 

I bet those are the same guys who then have no sympathy toward those in foreclosure. They say buy a real bike, a much more expensive one. Then laugh when you can't afford it. The first motorcycles looked more like sporty's than those couches they ride.

 

People who say that about sportsters are just a bunch of posers who bought bikes to make all their other douchbag friends think they are badass.

 

They actually cheer when people say what their bike is. Oh god that's gayer than Richard Simmons **** collection.

 

Didn't say I couldn't.......I just prefer not to!!