I took (with my dad on his Heritage) a 375 mile roundtrip ride from Central IL to St Louis, to Ted's in Alton and back with the 2012 1200c and it was pretty decent. With a windshield, ISO grips with boss, a Sundowner, Viking Saddlebags, a sissy with rack, and a few locks I was good to go. I could have easily dropped more than 375 today, but dad didn't want to stick around for the free Brett Micheals concert under the Arch tonight.

I rode up to the Aurora area 3 weeks ago with the same set up, but with a stock seat and I had to get off at 90 miles. It was just too much. I have a Sundowner now and had a vasectomy last Friday and I was good for well over 120+ miles without a pit stop and could go further if there weren't interesting things in between destinations. +1 for a touring seat on a Sporty.

As Billy Corgan once said, "the impossible is possible tonight, tonight with the right seat, the indiscribable feeling of your butt tonight, tonight..."

 

Next time your up by Aurora go see my dad, he lives in Elgin lol. He's got all metric bikes though, I'll get him sold one of these days lol

 

Dude, WTF, I have no idea why but your vasectomy comment still has me chuckling here...'came out of nowhere I suppose[?!], LOL...anyway, glad you got a good safe ride in...

=8^)

 

You need to start thinking air shocks now.