Basic Safety Features?
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From: the 50s & the 60s
RE: Basic Safety Features?
ORIGINAL: badabing
I have learned the hard way that my '06 FXDI (and I'm assuming most other HD's)
do not have some basic safety features that far less expensive scoots do.
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The thing that really gets me is
the my practically new $13K
"real"
bike doesn't have the basic features that my 02 shadow "wannabe" does.
why is that?
I have learned the hard way that my '06 FXDI (and I'm assuming most other HD's)
do not have some basic safety features that far less expensive scoots do.
.................................................. ............................................
The thing that really gets me is
the my practically new $13K
"real"
bike doesn't have the basic features that my 02 shadow "wannabe" does.
why is that?
Press 9 to disconnect, or, just hang up.
And on and on and on......
bada, your sig says you like your bikes fast and naked.
AZ hit the nail right on the head -
"The pussification of the American Harley rider."
mud
Road Master
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,100
Likes: 1
From: Conway, SC
RE: Basic Safety Features?
Those features are there just to slow those types of riders down before they go burning up the tar.
"Real" riders don't need that crap. I know what I'm doing, I always check the lights and always pull in the clutch.
"Real" riders don't need that crap. I know what I'm doing, I always check the lights and always pull in the clutch.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,374
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RE: Basic Safety Features?
Here is the problem it presents for me....I ride a lot of offroad single track on KTM 4stroke dirt bikes which since 03 have electric start....same place on same side as my Bob.....so you get use to throwing you leg over a 235 lb dirt bike not really paying attention or giving a **** if its in neutral or not be cause its not going to get away from you anyway. I've had 3 day weekends when I've been on the KTM and the Bob 2 times each and knocked out 200-300 miles on both bikes....if you don't pay attention its real easy to hit the button on the Bob without even thinking about neutral.
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God, help me...
Sorry folks. I'm just going to say it like it is. I've been on a mission lately about this stuff so as I tell the people in the General section...
IT'S A HARLEY-DAVIDSON.
"Mine has excessive vibration." Geez fricken Louise. Harleys have been doing this for, I don't know, a million years? Get a Jap bike and all that vibration, character, soul, and any other remaining personality is removed. Enjoy the electric smoothness of the engine.
"Oh, and mine is too hot!" It's an air cooled engine ya panty waist. I ride in Ari-frickin-zona. Doesn't get much hotterriding here in the summer.Over 60 days of 100+ degrees, 105-110 many days. I expect the bike will be a tad warm. You can certainly ride your Harley in Pigsknuckle, Indiana where it's 84. If you're getting third degree burns while riding (I can't make this stuff up, check it out for yourself), you're either sitting on the engine itself or you need an IQ test.
IT'S A MOTORCYCLE
"The wind! The buffeting! The drama!"
It's a frickin' motorcycle! What did you expect? Bugs to stop flying? Air to stop movin?, Rain to stop falling? The elements is what gives ridinga MOTORCYCLE its appeal. Get back in your minivan, ya poof.
"I'm wearing my one piece unobtanium full facedhelmet/ nomex/ airbag equipped three inch thick kevlar full-body suit with iron gloves with ski boots."How do I keep from perspiring? I want to protect myself." Yeah, yeah, there's the shuttle right over there on the launch pad, Neil. Just join the space program, OK?
If you're that worried about crashing, get off the bike and back in your bubble and watch life from the sidelines.
There, I feel better.
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