hi! help me choose
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Buy both, everybody knows that.
Have a RK and a RG, the fairing bike is more pleasant at interstate speeds and feels like it could just run until the fuel is empty. RK has style points, take the windshield off and a good looking machine, put the windshield on and you do have a wind block but loose your style points. Either one will work and Memphis Shades makes a bat wing for the RK if you think a mistake was made buying a bike without a fairing.
Have a RK and a RG, the fairing bike is more pleasant at interstate speeds and feels like it could just run until the fuel is empty. RK has style points, take the windshield off and a good looking machine, put the windshield on and you do have a wind block but loose your style points. Either one will work and Memphis Shades makes a bat wing for the RK if you think a mistake was made buying a bike without a fairing.
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Kind of the best of both worlds as I have a trunk on it also
I have a RK with a Memphis shade batwing.
With the trunk on it is pretty much a dresser without all the electronic BS
With the trunk on it is pretty much a dresser without all the electronic BS
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I have been stopped in my tracks on a carb bike, when all three of them froze up, bet then I rode year round, regardless of weather and it was way below freezing at the time. Fortunately engine heat thawed them out after about ten minutes or so (and when they froze again not long after). There have also been occasional minor carb problems, such as one bike routinely collected water in it's float chambers, which took a few minutes to drain every few weeks. There have been occasional minor issued with other carb bikes, which have taken a little messing around to get back working once more.
Plainly more of my riding has been on carb bikes, but I would neither accuse carbs nor EFI as being unreliable. Fortunately no fuel problems have ever left me stranded on the roadside, except running out of gas on one occasion - about 50 years ago!
Now excuse me - I must take time out to appease my many gods, in hope of not being struck down on the roadside some day soon.....
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I guess to put it another way-
On a cold dark night in the middle of no where, pretty far from somewhere,
if you FI quits on you. you will be there tomorrow morning too.
Whereas a carb?
You might have to weight to daylight to see- but you will get it going.
I guess i am old school and I want no part what i can't readily fix.
On a cold dark night in the middle of no where, pretty far from somewhere,
if you FI quits on you. you will be there tomorrow morning too.
Whereas a carb?
You might have to weight to daylight to see- but you will get it going.
I guess i am old school and I want no part what i can't readily fix.
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I base my fear on reading on HERE day after-
The bike will not start
Codes mean?
fuel pumps-
injectors -
was running and quit-
sensors -
etc etc.
Do as you all wish..but my bike quitting 1/2 way to Sturgis scares me .
Now I would be at the mercy of a dealer, a tow, a hotel, his knowledge or lack of, parts,
And i am sure at least a thousand bucks for the just the fix
No thanx
The bike will not start
Codes mean?
fuel pumps-
injectors -
was running and quit-
sensors -
etc etc.
Do as you all wish..but my bike quitting 1/2 way to Sturgis scares me .
Now I would be at the mercy of a dealer, a tow, a hotel, his knowledge or lack of, parts,
And i am sure at least a thousand bucks for the just the fix
No thanx
Last edited by Kingglide549; Aug 16, 2018 at 05:45 AM.
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Where's your spirit of adventure?! What happened to the pioneer......
I've travelled on my Harleys and Buells through France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Czech Republik, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia. When you have an idle moment take a look at the H-D website and find the Harley dealers in the more Eastern of those - and bearing in mind I have an S&S engine in my Glide, where their dealers are, anywhere in Europe!
C'mon - chin up and face the World!
I've travelled on my Harleys and Buells through France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Czech Republik, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia. When you have an idle moment take a look at the H-D website and find the Harley dealers in the more Eastern of those - and bearing in mind I have an S&S engine in my Glide, where their dealers are, anywhere in Europe!
C'mon - chin up and face the World!
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Where's your spirit of adventure?! What happened to the pioneer......
I've travelled on my Harleys and Buells through France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Czech Republik, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia. When you have an idle moment take a look at the H-D website and find the Harley dealers in the more Eastern of those - and bearing in mind I have an S&S engine in my Glide, where their dealers are, anywhere in Europe!
C'mon - chin up and face the World!
I've travelled on my Harleys and Buells through France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Czech Republik, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia. When you have an idle moment take a look at the H-D website and find the Harley dealers in the more Eastern of those - and bearing in mind I have an S&S engine in my Glide, where their dealers are, anywhere in Europe!
C'mon - chin up and face the World!
My idea of being a pioneer is doing ot myself and not calling the tow truck
I don't like relying on other people......
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As one of the last 4 or 5 guys on the planet running a fuel injected EVO I can tell you that they mess up once in a while. Sensors go bad. I have yet to be stranded on the road due to a fuel injection issue. I have, however; had to limp home with a bad sensor.
The trick to fuel injected bikes is to get your nose in the FSM and read the fuel injection section. Learn how to read the codes and look them up in the table to see which sensor is bad. If you can't replace the sensor you probably can't work on a carb anyway. Heck, my dog could pull fault codes if she had thumbs.
carl
The trick to fuel injected bikes is to get your nose in the FSM and read the fuel injection section. Learn how to read the codes and look them up in the table to see which sensor is bad. If you can't replace the sensor you probably can't work on a carb anyway. Heck, my dog could pull fault codes if she had thumbs.
carl