Just moved from a rubber mounted engine bike 1995 FXDL To a 2005 FatBoy.
Just looking for other people that moved to see their first thoughts and experience were with a hard mount bike.

So far I olny have about a 150 miles on the Fat Boy and it definetly feels different. Better but different

Thanks

 

Your bike has the chain driven balancers in it; much smoother than an older evo rigid mount. If i switch from my '99 Glide to the wife's '88 softail, wow what a difference!

 

The counterbalance engine is one of the main reasons I am on a softail.

 

I have been back and forth a dozen times. Here's my take, every rubber mount has its own idle vibe, some rattle the bones and some are pretty smooth, off idle they seem to smooth out nice. A solid mount evo will vibe always, a B motor is smooth at idle and will vibe at high speed. I dislike idle vibes very much at every stop sign or stop light, i have had a few rubber mounts that idle pretty smooth, more the evo than twinks. The b motor is much smoother in stop and go traffic. Long story short, why not a b motor rubber mounted? HD never did it, why not? V rod comes close.

 

Same for me.

 

Have you found any issue with Vibration at speed or when engine breaking on a B motor bike?

 

As I understand it. The B engine is not rubber mounted because it will not fit in the Softail frame with rubber mounts. The touring engines are not counter balanced because the counter balancers have a parasitic draw on the horsepower that is needed to power the heavier bike.

 

As long as you are on the bike that makes you happy with the way you ride, that's what really counts and I'm glad we all have choices from the moco. Having riden evo softails, twinkie softails, evo rubber mounts and twinkie rubber mounts over the years, my perefrence is for the rubbermount, like how they are smooth on the highway.

 

I'm with 89FLHT. I've ridden them all, and after 33,000 miles on my '05 Deluxe, I switched to my Dyna in '08. As beautiful as it looked the motor just had no personailty. No more counterbalancers for me thanks. I'd rather feel the motor. To each their own.

 

I totally agree...it's that vibration I was looking for in a Harley in the first place. It represents that horsepower to me...those cams loping that engine. Nice V&H 2-2 pipes. That's what I envisioned when I've always thought of Harley's.