Originally Posted by Certainteed

hey i bought the nightster because it beat the thruxton in the quarter mile, while the thruxton beat the nightster in the twisties.

i figure the vtwin just makes better torque, and thats where the fun is.

the xr is neat, but i dunno. i like it but what the hell is flat-track racing anyway?

anyway... i have a nightster.

i inverted my bars because i like the look, and the aggressive riding stance is way more fun. the center of g is lower. on long trips i lay on my tank bag and ride all day. i think the nightster bars are way too wide for modified suspension (keep reading to understand why) but clip-ons, or drags might be ok. i'm looking at bars from the 883 iron. i think they'd be perfect (inverted of course).

i put road king shocks on my nightster cause they were dirt cheap and raised the rear a great deal. plus theyre air-adjusteable. the dampening is good enough as far as i'm concerned.

raising the rear but keeping the short front-end gives two notable points:
the front suspension is garbage and will scare the crap out of you on uneven surfaces.
the lower front end/ higher rear end equate to less rake which means more responsive steering and a higher lean angle.

when i wrecked last year i was running behind a 750 commando and an rd350. both riders were excellent. i kept up with them untill i ran out of lean angle. not bad for "bar hopper".

i have no engine mods by the way and i was running on stock hd dunlops. the commando was running very skinny/sticky avons. that bike was faaaaast in the curves. in straightaways he had nothing. i owned his ***. same for the rd, but in the curves he was the messiah.

so, if you really want to have a lot of fun, pick up a nightster and do this:

get taller shocks. ghetto-fabulous road king air shocks are a good cheap alternative.
toss the front suspension. you can probably find someone willing to trade for that lowered front-end. get a normal set of forks and slide them down into the trees to lower the front. if you can find fork tubes from a 1200S you'll be pimping hardcore (they are adjustable cartridge type and hard to come by)
forkbrace? i'm not convinced these things work.
invert the bars or get some clipons. anything to get yourself hunkered down on that thing.
rear sets are a must. i have rear passenger pegs but really want rear seats.
flames, whitewalls, dice. all this stuff is necessary to hot-rodding, as any serious racer knows

Originally Posted by Endoz

Buells just don't do it for me, party because you sit perched up on top of them like my last Triumph, ready for something different.

thanks,