Mike - I thought you were running the HD Street Slammer bars. Those looked so good that I was thinking of trying them myself.

 

I am running the Slammers, they are a 7" rise, the best bar for the Low Rider.

 

I would argue that my 10” Wild1 Chopper is the best bar for the Low Rider.

 

I've always had sport bikes, and even the "standards" I've owned I've usually put lower bars on for a lean-forward position.

Got a lovely stainless steel "beach bar" with 3-1/2" pullback risers on my Low Rider now. Was trying to match the position of my stock Dyna Super Glide which I still like a lot. Just one more inch higher and one more inch back might make it perfect except it's still about 2" too wide.

I haven't ridden anything with "high" bars since my first street bike, a 1972 Honda 450 chopper (6" over forks), and that one handled like such pig that I went totally in the other direction for the last 40 years.

Thinking about those Slammers might be fun on the LR. Just wish there were an easier way to try bar/pullback combos.

 

I know my shop has a mock up bar. They can adjust all the dimensions and so on.

 

Dyna fan here and happy owner of a '19 Low Rider.

The new LRS looks cool but no passenger seat and no passenger pegs coupled with that Sportster Iron fairing just isn't made up for by the cool blacked out treatment and cool gold wheels. Inverted forks on a street bike? Meh; and as for dual discs - they look the part but offer no greater braking force than a single disc while adding unsprung weight. Dual discs on a track bike, where hard braking at close repeated intervals requires better heat dissipation, is where dual discs earn their keeps ... and unsprung weight disadvantage; but on a street bike, just like inverted forks - meh.

Don't get me wrong, I do like the new Low Rider S, I would need to add a different seat, passenger pegs - would always feel shortchanged by the buffet producing cafe' fairing on an upright seating position bike and will just happily keep my Plain Jane low Rider in the sexier (and faster) Barracuda Silver.

 

So does this mean the FatBob 114 is an S model now too?

 

Technically, all of the 114 Models are "S"
The 2018 Fat Boy 107 was FLFB, and the 114 was always labled as FLFBS.
Anything with the M8 114 or higher in it was an "S" model to harley.
It wasnt until this model year that the 107 base was nyxxed in models that offered both the non S 107 and S 114 option.

 

I know, it was a poor attempt at humor.

My joke being that this new fxlrs is more similar to the fatbob than it is to the original fxdls, as it's missing all of the premium ride components that made the og fxdls such a good deal.

 

it's funny that every year I look online or in the catalogs and there's some models that really look amazing to me- and others that I just completely overlook. then i go to a demo event and see the bikes in real life and sit on them and ride them and everything changes.

i thought the new low rider s was amazing looking in the pictures- then i saw it in real life and it was just kind of "meh". it was boring and kind of looked old. i rode it and it was really nice- but strangely the bike that really stood out to me and just looked amazing was the new Breakout in that orange color. That bike is probably the best looking Harley I have ever seen. It's lines are balanced, the color is bright and solid but still tough looking and the thing doesn't look too stretched out to not look like a regular motorcycle. That's the bike that made me wish I was in the market for a Softail this year. I even liked the forward controls and the handlebar position. It's a really good fit right off the show room floor for a taller rider as the OP suggested. I'm 6ft3 and it fit nice.

Of course the big front wheel scares me from a handling perspective- I didn't ride it- but I think it'd probably be ok. I know that when I test rode the 117 Fat Bob- I ultimately bought the Street Bob because I really didn't like the way the fat tire felt. I'm not sure how bad such a tall tire would feel especially with that much extra rake and such a slack head angle. Anyway- the bike looked awesome.

The other thing that interested me was how much they reduced the price of the FXDR. I really liked the look of that bike when I first saw it- but my salesman was quick to tell me how terrible it was. That it didn't perform as well as it ought to- it was way overpriced, it was uncomfortable etc. etc. So I decided to pick between the Fat Bob, the Street Bob and the Low Rider. If the Lowrider S was available- I'd have probably bought that- because the only reason I got the Street Bob was because I really didn't want to deal with the chrome.

Anyway- yeah Orange Breakout was the surprise of the line for me. That bike would have been PERFECT for what I just did with my Street Bob- the 124' build with the RB racing pipe---hmmm maybe I should think about getting a giant fat rear wheel for my Street Bob....