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Old 11-06-2016, 08:11 PM
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Default What style do you view the Fatboy as?

This me be an od question but as much as i live my Fatboy i feel like its style is almost too unique. Or maybe thats not the way im trying to describe . Basically when i look at it i can't definitively say its old school or new school ect ect... Like when you look at a Deluxe and its blatantly old school style. Or like the Night rod has that high performance new school style. Or like the Low rider S has that So Cal dyna style. The Fatboy seems like old School mixed with a modern Muscle look. It makes it hard. Like i like ape hangers but i dont know if they look right on a Fatboy. Sometimes i see pics and i think they look good but then i look at another pic and i change my mind. Not like with when i look at a Softail Deluxe i think it definitely looks great with apes. I think i big part of it is the Solid wheels and maybe how the fenders are cut shorter then the Deluxe or Heritage but longer then other models . I thought about going with the Harley Chizeled apes. Just dont know if they look right. It seems more at home with that Muscle tough look.
 
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Old 11-06-2016, 08:19 PM
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I would say it's a softail..
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it's a cruiser, like more or less everything Harley makes.
 
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Wait a minute. My bike has a style?
 
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Old 11-06-2016, 09:29 PM
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It has a Terminator style.
 
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Old 11-06-2016, 09:39 PM
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Heavyweight cruiser.
 
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It's a Harley with a bad name attached to it...but then, I'm not crazy about most of the names they've been given.
 
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Motorcycle style.
 
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It has a Terminator style.
 
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I didn't like the factory FB look. Never did. Too fat and scrunched. Had to take matters into my own hands. Now its just a raked softtail with a FB Vin. Just need to go with some 16" apes now. The pull-back drag bars worked for the last decade.

 


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