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Nothing too crazy for now on mods. Besides the bars, in the short term I'm looking at a paint matched tsport repop fairing, bassani road rage (most likely the chrome one, steering away from black on this build), PC5, then addressing the suspension. Want to add some cornering clearance and address the softness of the front end. Not sure exactly where I'm going with that yet.
Basically, I want this bike to be a nice, solid, comfortable commuter with some get-up-and-go for the day-to-day, but be able to hit the twisties on the weekend.
You picked the perfect bike for what you want Jake. I ride my bike in the mountains a good bit as well as it being my every day transport. I will say that a rear shock change will be a huge upgrade for this type of riding. It would do okay with the stock shocks, but with new shocks you get a much better lean angle and the handling is night and day different.
I can usually keep up with most of the guys on the sportbikes. The front brakes help alot, but when trying to keep up with the sportbike guys with some legitimate skills, I get left behind as the weight doesn't allow me to brake as late as those guys and still make the turns. It still great fun though. The other HDs I run into usually just hold me up. I have been with some other club style guys that haul the mail though.
I was at a dealership that had a purple one. It was nice, all of them are, but I don't think I could have pulled that color off. I thought it was more so aimed at the ladies, but I have seen a few nice purple Street Bobs that were bad azzes.
The Street Bob was offered a few years back in Voodoo Purple. Great color. Whatever color my next LR or LR S will be it will be something other than black.
I won't get it before early October so someone may still beat me to the post.
Looking forward to the pics. I liked the green and orange colors that were offered on the 2015s and the purple and blue colors that was offered on the 2016s. Of all the colors so far, I would have went with the red.
Nothing too crazy for now on mods. Besides the bars, in the short term I'm looking at a paint matched tsport repop fairing, bassani road rage (most likely the chrome one, steering away from black on this build), PC5, then addressing the suspension. Want to add some cornering clearance and address the softness of the front end. Not sure exactly where I'm going with that yet.
Basically, I want this bike to be a nice, solid, comfortable commuter with some get-up-and-go for the day-to-day, but be able to hit the twisties on the weekend.
Be sure to keep us updated on your mods and experience with the LR.
The Street Bob was offered a few years back in Voodoo Purple. Great color. Whatever color my next LR or LR S will be it will be something other than black.
Got the bars on this weekend. Lucky Dave's Lucky 13 bars with Magnum cable kit. So much better, feel like I'm at home on this bike now. Next will be fairing of some sort, exhaust/tuner, and suspension work, not necessarily in that order...
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