HD????

I was looking for some riding boots for my wife at a Harley dealer and stumbled across a Sportster?? This would be the first Harley worthy of space in my garage. All I could say was "woah".

Yeah the XR1200 has been around in Europe for a while, I'm really glad they brought it here, tis the first harley I've ever liked.

I rode a buddy of mine's Buell which is based on the 1200 sportster engine from what I understand. My gosh that thing vibrated. I rode it probably 1 mile at 35mph and that was well enough of that for me.

Ha, I had a laugh on my buddy's Buell XB9R. I guess I'm young though.

Nice bikes. HD had an 883R a few years back that I thought was pretty nice. Couldn't talk myself out of the $8000.

that new 1200 rocks right along it is a pretty stout piece for a pushrod twin. but those pipes would have to go and a set of half mile super traps would be going on right away.

to me, this is still the only Hardley worth owning...

timebomb33 wrote:

that new 1200 rocks right along it is a pretty stout piece for a pushrod twin. but those pipes would have to go and a set of half mile super traps would be going on right away.

Something like this timebomb? I would buy this one, they styled it as a "standard". Our style of bike is making a small comeback. People are getting tired of cruisers or crotch rockets.

yes sir those are the babies i'd throw a set of them on in a heartbeat i've always shied away from h-d's mostly due to the fact for 20,000 they could at least give you a bike that handled,stopped,accellerated and cornered decent and also because of some of the attitudes the money seemed to bring into that end of the market but i would definitly ride one of those 1200's they really rip. if i had to deal with real harley guy's all day long i would have stay working on them they are among the easiest bikes there are to work on but when the shop became more of a boutique then a real bike shop and the biker for a week-end started to show up it all changed for me. and i hate forward controls!!!!!!!!!!!!

kztee wrote:

to me, this is still the only Hardley worth owning...

I second that...I also lust after this HD...and it is the only one, although the XR1200 ain't bad.

I like it

Not lust though.

Nice but overpriced.

I do agree with the styling. Not a cruiser and not a sportbike.

Edgy

Our kinda style