You guys want to laugh?
#42
11-02-2006, 10:38 AM
RE: You guys want to laugh?
After reading the post there and here I thought of a couple questions:
1. In the next five years how many of them will have traded their softail for a touring model?
I bought a Road Glide with intentions of keeping my 2001 Dyna Super Glide as the crappy weather work ride. After enjoying it for 4.5 years, I sold it after a month of owning and riding the RG.
2. How many of those softails have bags on them because, subconsciously, they envy the room of a bagger’s saddlebags?
It may say Hertage Softail Classic, but it screams bagger with its windshield and saddlebags covering the rear swingarm.
3. When you really look at the issue.....who really gives a flying flock if you are on a Buell Blast learning to ride, any other HD model, or the king of touring bike, Ultra Classic Electra Glide... so when you boil away all the BS, what you have is still a Harley and better than all the bikes out there trying to look and sound like a Harley.
1. In the next five years how many of them will have traded their softail for a touring model?
I bought a Road Glide with intentions of keeping my 2001 Dyna Super Glide as the crappy weather work ride. After enjoying it for 4.5 years, I sold it after a month of owning and riding the RG.
2. How many of those softails have bags on them because, subconsciously, they envy the room of a bagger’s saddlebags?
It may say Hertage Softail Classic, but it screams bagger with its windshield and saddlebags covering the rear swingarm.
3. When you really look at the issue.....who really gives a flying flock if you are on a Buell Blast learning to ride, any other HD model, or the king of touring bike, Ultra Classic Electra Glide... so when you boil away all the BS, what you have is still a Harley and better than all the bikes out there trying to look and sound like a Harley.
#43
11-02-2006, 11:17 AM
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RE: You guys want to laugh?
ORIGINAL: DeathWind
After reading the post there and here I thought of a couple questions:
1. In the next five years how many of them will have traded their softail for a touring model?
I bought a Road Glide with intentions of keeping my 2001 Dyna Super Glide as the crappy weather work ride. After enjoying it for 4.5 years, I sold it after a month of owning and riding the RG.
2. How many of those softails have bags on them because, subconsciously, they envy the room of a bagger’s saddlebags?
It may say Hertage Softail Classic, but it screams bagger with its windshield and saddlebags covering the rear swingarm.
3. When you really look at the issue.....who really gives a flying flock if you are on a Buell Blast learning to ride, any other HD model, or the king of touring bike, Ultra Classic Electra Glide... so when you boil away all the BS, what you have is still a Harley and better than all the bikes out there trying to look and sound like a Harley.
After reading the post there and here I thought of a couple questions:
1. In the next five years how many of them will have traded their softail for a touring model?
I bought a Road Glide with intentions of keeping my 2001 Dyna Super Glide as the crappy weather work ride. After enjoying it for 4.5 years, I sold it after a month of owning and riding the RG.
2. How many of those softails have bags on them because, subconsciously, they envy the room of a bagger’s saddlebags?
It may say Hertage Softail Classic, but it screams bagger with its windshield and saddlebags covering the rear swingarm.
3. When you really look at the issue.....who really gives a flying flock if you are on a Buell Blast learning to ride, any other HD model, or the king of touring bike, Ultra Classic Electra Glide... so when you boil away all the BS, what you have is still a Harley and better than all the bikes out there trying to look and sound like a Harley.
2. I do envy the storage capacity, but I will not put bags on my Custom, I like the way it looks, handles, and rides now. With some minor cosmetic and performance upgrades of course. If I need to carry annything on it I have a small rack on back and a backpack. Anything that won't fit in the backpack, or on the rack is too big or heavy for the bike anyway. I have a nice little Ranger pickup truck for that stuff.
3. AMEN brother, AMEN!!!!! [sm=biker2.gif]
#44
11-02-2006, 12:18 PM
RE: You guys want to laugh?
FLH's were made to be ridden.
Sloptails were made to be parked at a bar and looked at.
"HEY! LOOK AT ME! I'M NEARLY A BAD-***! IF YOU SQUINT REAL HARD, YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY MISTAKE MY BIKE FOR A RIGID"
tim
(I say this in jest. My brother owns a Sloptail Heritige Classic)
Sloptails were made to be parked at a bar and looked at.
"HEY! LOOK AT ME! I'M NEARLY A BAD-***! IF YOU SQUINT REAL HARD, YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY MISTAKE MY BIKE FOR A RIGID"
tim
(I say this in jest. My brother owns a Sloptail Heritige Classic)
#45
11-02-2006, 12:18 PM
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RE: You guys want to laugh?
Correct me if i'm wrong ,but me thinks them counterbalancers rob HP and torque!
But then so does additional baggage. Additional weight (including body fat) takes more hp/torque to lug around.
That's why I run 5 miles a day.[8D]
After reading the post there and here I thought of a couple questions:
1. In the next five years how many of them will have traded their softail for a touring model?
I bought a Road Glide with intentions of keeping my 2001 Dyna Super Glide as the crappy weather work ride. After enjoying it for 4.5 years, I sold it after a month of owning and riding the RG.
2. How many of those softails have bags on them because, subconsciously, they envy the room of a bagger’s saddlebags?
It may say Hertage Softail Classic, but it screams bagger with its windshield and saddlebags covering the rear swingarm.
3. When you really look at the issue.....who really gives a flying flock if you are on a Buell Blast learning to ride, any other HD model, or the king of touring bike, Ultra Classic Electra Glide... so when you boil away all the BS, what you have is still a Harley and better than all the bikes out there trying to look and sound like a Harley.
1. In the next five years how many of them will have traded their softail for a touring model?
I bought a Road Glide with intentions of keeping my 2001 Dyna Super Glide as the crappy weather work ride. After enjoying it for 4.5 years, I sold it after a month of owning and riding the RG.
2. How many of those softails have bags on them because, subconsciously, they envy the room of a bagger’s saddlebags?
It may say Hertage Softail Classic, but it screams bagger with its windshield and saddlebags covering the rear swingarm.
3. When you really look at the issue.....who really gives a flying flock if you are on a Buell Blast learning to ride, any other HD model, or the king of touring bike, Ultra Classic Electra Glide... so when you boil away all the BS, what you have is still a Harley and better than all the bikes out there trying to look and sound like a Harley.
B- 2. Good question, I don't know. I've never had more than a tool bag on my front forks. But then, a GW has a lot of trunkage on it too. Love seeing the stripped down Kings though, pretendin' to be a Softail
Wonder why those ghost brackets are so popular?
C- 3. True, who gives a F-F. All good natured humour here for sure. It's all Harley. I'm sure most of us here can buy any model we want, as they are for the most part in the same ball park. I special ordered mine, I'm not envious of other models.
So, to carry the Softail banner here, I've said it on many websites that the Fatboy is ***** G's and Harley Davidson's premier, finest example and exhibit of Engineering Artistry. I realize that this may be an unpopular statement here on the bagger board, but sometimes the truth hurts. Peace.
I'm going back to the Softail forum now.
#47
11-02-2006, 12:36 PM
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#48
11-02-2006, 01:37 PM
RE: You guys want to laugh?
I have owned both.
The whole sitting in it/on it thing just depends pretty much on the seat. My softail would vibrate at highway speeds, my Streetglide only vibrates at stop lights.
I own a bike to ride it not look at it, so I like having the bat wing, radio and bags.
The whole sitting in it/on it thing just depends pretty much on the seat. My softail would vibrate at highway speeds, my Streetglide only vibrates at stop lights.
I own a bike to ride it not look at it, so I like having the bat wing, radio and bags.
#49
11-02-2006, 02:19 PM
#50
11-02-2006, 02:45 PM
RE: You guys want to laugh?
for the record, i like both....am looking at a bagger right now. wouldn't give up my deuce though so i may have to get back into a payment to do it .......in my opinion both bikes have their place, i like the deuce for around town and under 500 mile trips but i'm getting a bagger for the long stuff and multiday trips so i can take my gear and get there in one piece.....jabbing at each other is cool and fun but some of this crap i'm hearing is stupid, both on this thread and the other one....