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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Ropata Sefesi
have just found another option
2005 super glide 10000kms



This one absolutely gets my vote.
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 03:44 PM
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thanks for the insight

thanks the advice is great
 

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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 03:55 PM
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Super Glide. I wouldn't think twice about it over the sportsters.
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Cazador
Super Glide. I wouldn't think twice about it over the sportsters.
This...unless you have a 4th choice.
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 07:18 PM
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I started back riding with a Sportster. It was about 3 months and I was on a Street Bob. Less than a year later I added an Ultra. Love em both. I spent a bunch of money on the Nightster but it it wasn't a big twin.
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 08:01 PM
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I love my 48 with a 3.3 gallon tank. Each to their own but I love it. I've heard people comment that it ain't a big twin or this or that but... I have yet to be able to hang with anyone. My dad rides a wide glide and a Kawasaki voyager and he loves riding mine.
 
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Old Jun 5, 2017 | 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Cazador
Super Glide. I wouldn't think twice about it over the sportsters.
^This^

Absolutely nothing wrong with a sportster but there is about an 80% chance you would regret not going bigger within 6 months.
 
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Old Jun 5, 2017 | 08:52 AM
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My vote is the Superglide, try to stay with stock as much as possible. You want an unmolested blank canvass.
I don't like the mods on two of those Sportsters, modifications add nothing to the value of a bike at time of sale. Mods also tell a lot about who the previous owner is.
 
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OP~ How much riding experience do you have?
 
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**** they all have peanut tanks...I thought 1200 sporties had the 4.5 gallon tanks?

The XL1200c has the 4.5.
OP - What country are you in?
 
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