883 Iron

**MeHigh** · 24th February 2009, 12:19

Man that's a great looking machine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrADxlf7qQ

Frisco here we go!

**Headbanger** · 24th February 2009, 12:35

An attempt to make this thread a little less gay.

**MeHigh** · 24th February 2009, 12:47

Yeap... on the other heand you can have dum chiks on shiny bikes... yeap... never seen that before!

**Bonez** · 24th February 2009, 13:15

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=92344

**peasea** · 24th February 2009, 13:33

Originally Posted by MeHigh

Yeap... on the other heand you can have dum chiks on shiny bikes... yeap... never seen that before!

I have and I could name one right now. She can't ride for shit either!

**MeHigh** · 24th February 2009, 15:08

Haven’t seen the other topic, sorry!
The public reaction was impressive everybody posting there hate it!
Anywho is worth opening your eyes with something else then the dentist’s stock bike and the OCC “choppers”. For a change have a look here
http://churchofchoppers.blogspot.com...20and%20Flynch)
‘Choppers were never meant to be long and useless…they were meant to be urban assault vehicles. Short, tight, light, and right. Getaway machines. Evasion, speed, performance…these were part of the formula for building a great chopper.

At what point in history did returning a vintage Harley back to stock and treating it like a fragile sculpture become the norm?

When did people stop seeing them as a solid platform for a urban assault vehicle? ‘
Luckily the HD designers are aware of the new trends in bike building and customising bikes this days and not having just the penis enlarger image in their head.
I don’t say that’s the way, I just say that’s a cool response in customising bikes in response to their purpose and the environment are built for (in this case Japanese city streets or quite all crowded big towns)
Saying that, I hardly wait to buy an Iron for my wife so I can ride it trough the town!
I forgot how things are here… ‘ I hate everything that is not between my legs or just half an inch to my bum’ . Twin cam hates Sportys and everybody else hates Harleys.
‘Love is in the air …lalla lalal lalaaaaaaaaaaa…’

**peasea** · 24th February 2009, 18:26

Originally Posted by MeHigh

‘Choppers were never meant to be long and useless…they were meant to be urban assault vehicles. Short, tight, light, and right. Getaway machines. Evasion, speed, performance…these were part of the formula for building a great chopper.

When did people stop seeing them as a solid platform for a urban assault vehicle? ‘
…’

Ahhh, Mister Basics I presume?

You've been a long time coming. (Get your mind out of the gutter and focus on the bikes, ok?)

Yes, the word "chopper" had a bit of a grey start didn't it? Chopped, bobbed? Hmmm, the beginnings were so close to each other yet the modern machines are so far away from each other it hurts. I like both but too much bling and the 'real' (read; scruffy, greasy,t-shirt and jeans-type) biker vanishes over the horizon in a latte`-laden sunset. I see so many, too many, shiny machines in the course of my life/work, that to come across something that is painted with aerosols, welded with gas and spitting flames out the straight pipes is truly a rarity. It still gives me a hard-on though and thank the heavens that they ARE still out there; just few and far between.

**popelli** · 24th February 2009, 18:33

Originally Posted by peasea

I see so many, too many, shiny machines in the course of my life/work, that to come across something that is painted with aerosols, welded with gas and spitting flames out the straight pipes is truly a rarity. It still gives me a hard-on though and thank the heavens that they ARE still out there; just few and far between.

but the nanny state won't like this

and neither with the harley establishment as they can't make any money out of this

**Headbanger** · 24th February 2009, 19:08

Fuck it, HD whoring out trends created in the shed into their line of bikes doesn't strike me as impressive. Its imitation, Its following the crowd not leading it. And its watering down something cool to sell to pretenders.

They take something created by bikers, mass produce a soft corporate safe version of it to sell to the soft headed fools who suck up their marketing.

Whoever made that advert needs to be shot.

**peasea** · 24th February 2009, 19:11

Originally Posted by popelli

but the nanny state won't like this

and neither with the harley establishment as they can't make any money out of this

Real bikers will say "fuck the nanny state"

and

Yes they can, it's called 'The Rocker'. I've aired my views on this machine elsewhere on this site.

**peasea** · 24th February 2009, 19:13

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Fuck it, HD whoring out trends created in the shed into their line of bikes doesn't strike me as impressive. Its imitation, Its following the crowd not leading it. And its watering down something cool to sell to pretenders.

They take something created by bikers, mass produce a soft corporate safe version of it to sell to the soft headed fools who suck up their marketing.

Whoever made that advert needs to be shot.

And, see my comments eleswhere on 'The Rocker'. I call it corporate suckup, like the original Superglide. Old Willie went to see what "those chopper guys" were up to, and hey presto! Instant corporate clone.

**Big Dave** · 24th February 2009, 22:47

Yeah - I find the Iron very aesthetically pleasing - if it goes anything like a smaller version of the XL1200 it would be a very tidy machine for a compact person. Male or female.

**nallac** · 25th February 2009, 07:46

It looks like how i usually like Harleys to look, low and blacked out, minminal
chrome to polish,keep clean..

Pity theres such a jump in prices from a sporty to a Dyna....