oldmike
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Reged: 03/16/06
Posts: 268
Loc: Tinley Park, IL
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Our weekly Sunday breakfast ride takes us to a Harley dealership a block from our favorite waitress. Nice shop: friendly people. The bike that caught my eye was an 883R Sportster in black everything. Something about that blacked out engine and the checkered tank gets to me (visually). My Speedmaster and my Thunderbird Sport have black engines. I see a trend here.
I test road an 883 and a 1200 in Daytona last year. Vibes were way down, but so was the power. If I ever win the powerball, I'd probably buy the 883R and "biggie size"" it(not to mention a pole barn full of other bikes).
$174 million in powerball today. Good luck.
Mike Sr.
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RobBA05
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Reged: 01/23/06
Posts: 3565
Loc: NH
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no way...not laughing here when I hit...there's a shiney new dyna wideglide in my stable...and a BMW full dresser for the long tour...
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per: Stewart
AF&AM/Shriner/Scoutmaster
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Soren
Should be Riding
Reged: 01/12/05
Posts: 12034
Loc: Beaverton, OR
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No laughing, just shaking my head in emabrrassment for you  . But at least now you know how superior our bike truly are.
Soren
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roundy77
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Reged: 01/11/05
Posts: 3572
Loc: Houston,TX
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I won't laugh at your taste in bikes. As far as HDs go- I think a sporty would be the way I'd go. What I will laugh at - hanging out at a Harley shop on a sunday when you should be riding!!
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"It's outside your field of expertise."
"Poppycock normally is."
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FriarJohn
"Lighten up, Francis."
Reged: 01/11/05
Posts: 18825
Loc: East Helena, Montana
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Sporty is a girl's bike...
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oldmike
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Loc: Tinley Park, IL
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Hi Stewart,
The Sunday morning ride has turned into a year round get together even in our winter months. We take the cars and just hang for some therapy with the boys. We almost always end up at the Viking Chili Bowl on 30 in Valpo around 10 AM. Us old guys wuss-out in the cold and wet and take the 4 wheelers. This Sunday looks like it might be time for the bikes. Look for 2 Harleys, a Kaw and me on some kind of Triumph and ask to sit in Patti's section. Try the country skillet.
Mike Sr.
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kennymc
Learned Hand
Reged: 01/18/05
Posts: 1545
Loc: Middletown, NJ
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All the die hard harley riders that I know, and I know a lot, all say that the sportster is a girls bike.
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if life gives you lemons keep them because hey,free lemons.
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MrUnix
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Reged: 08/11/05
Posts: 834
Loc: North Central Florida
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Before I bought my Speedmaster, I looked at all sorts of bikes, including the new HD's at a local shop. The thing that got me about the Sportster was that it looked, at least to me, to be very cheaply made.. not like the other 'big' HD's in the shop (with price tags to match).
Cheers,
Brad
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Dwight
Fe Butt
Reged: 02/03/05
Posts: 17826
Loc: Sedona, Arizona
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Well good Friar,
If a Sportster IS a "Girl's Bike", does that make a Big Twin a fat-a$$ed, out o' shape, middle-aged "MAN's Bike", then??? 
'Cuz THAT'S who I MOSTLY SEE ridin' Heritage/Softtail/ElectraGlide/or "What Evers" around these days! 
Cheers,
Dwight
(but then again...were talkin' AMERICANS here, who seem to have lost the ability to push themselves away from the freakin' dinner table) 
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
Edited by Dwight (04/05/06 11:20 AM)
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Frank
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Reged: 01/11/05
Posts: 3753
Loc: cambridge massachusetts
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get an all black dyna at least
Frank
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NOW-2010 silver and black tbird
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