How can Harley Davidson appeal to younger riders? + Poll.

[Big Dave]

I'd rather be on a Road King running over that snake than almost any other bike!

Run over it! Several of us stopped to check it out. Beautiful creature - I got 2 feet away from it. A courier was out of his van directing traffic around it.

It's like a $10k fine for killing one on purpose.

[Tarded]

I'd rather be on a Road King running over that snake than almost any other bike!

True, but most others would be able to move around it

[Big Dave]

The bike with the best lower leg accommodation/protection as standard is the Victory Vision.

[ducatilover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1bpMBqFiM one for Large Dave
An XR12 can out run poorly ridden sport bikes (looks rather fun). It's not very fast in a straight line though, but it's not really meant to be.

I like XR1200s

[Big Dave]

Well cheers, but goobers going around in circles I am sooo not interested in.

What appeals is 'satisfaction' as a road bike.

[ducatilover]

Well cheers, but goobers going around in circles I am sooo not interested in.

What appeals is 'satisfaction' as a road bike.

Still a neat vid
Plonker rides faster than I do on my stodgy 600

[Tarded]

Still a neat vid
Plonker rides faster than I do on my stodgy 600

And that why tracks are so good.
You can buy everything except skill and tracks are way too confronting for many.

The guy on the 1098 (1198?) should be ashamed! Harley outbraking superbikes - very amusing.

Sporties are much maligned but they shouldnt be.
I take the piss out of hoglys but Ive ridden a couple of sporties and torque is fun. The sport versions appeal more, not the chrome no ground clearance models.

[Big Dave]

Still a neat vid
Plonker rides faster than I do on my stodgy 600

Yuh - one of the first from round'ere to ride one waneye.

[ducatilover]

I want to have a go on an XR1200, I can't say that about anything else in the range.
It's no sport bike, but I think it'd be proper fun to ride up a nice road.

And less stupid than my POS that apparently has to break the speed limit and be leant far too much to be any sort of fun (my fault, I built the damn thing)

[Big Dave]

It appears you have completely got the wrong end of what I was talking about.

I've noted that on the priority list of things I need to correct. How are you placed in 2040?

[Big Dave]

In non harley speak Duckie.

Like I said - I'm not interested in race tracks - just road and off road riding. So that's the qualifier. If you are a track head stop reading now.


If someone said to me here Dave, you can have either a V7 Moto Guzzi or an F4 MV Agusta for a ride around the Coromandel.

In the first instance I'd take the one I hadn't ridden.

Having done it done it on both I would take the 45 hp Guzzi nine times out of 10. (Once because the MV is just so horny).

Because I can really give the V7 a flogging, row it through the gearbox, use a heap of body english and 'use' the machine. Rewarding, engaging - without actually going particularly fast. Fast enough to draw some heat, but you will probably still have enough demerit points to do it more than once and if it does all turn to custard it isn't quite as thick. Big grin factor.

If you do more than sit just above idle on the MV for most of the loop, beautiful thing that it is, you risk having it impounded. You push it anywhere near its handling limits on those sufaces, surrounded by the dropkick motorists...If you *could* do 180kph everywhere - different story. It can do that in first gear. The rest of the ride becomes an exercise in self-control.

That isn't as satisfying as giving something a workout.

[ducatilover]

I get ya.

It's the reason why I'm building my little bike. Bendy chassis and 600cc low power thumper

[Ocean1]

The guy on the 1098 (1198?) should be ashamed! Harley outbraking superbikes - very amusing.

... without touching the front brake. In fact I didn't see him use it at all.

But then I don't think the sporty dudes were actually racing.

[carbonhed]

... without touching the front brake. In fact I didn't see him use it at all.

But then I don't think the sporty dudes were actually racing.

Looks suspiciously like the sighting laps for the slow group. There were a couple of competently ridden sports bikes though @ 1.30 and 3.50... Harley douchebag really haunted them... very fkin briefly.

[idb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1bpMBqFiM one for Large Dave
An XR12 can out run poorly ridden sport bikes (looks rather fun). It's not very fast in a straight line though, but it's not really meant to be.

I like XR1200s

Haha, great fun!