Bobber Rant # 1 (X-Bones)
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Bobber Rant # 1 (X-Bones)
Had to pick up some parts for my Sloptail last Sunday at the nearest dealer. Finally got to eyeball the Bones. Best I can say is they got close. Overall, it's not bad. Looks better from a distance than it does close-up. Some of my disappointment is personal taste - Front fender needs gone along with its funky mounting arms; handlebar clutter is typical of any stock bike, but then the MoCo's gotsta follow the laws; black pipes with chrome mufflers would look better; seat isn't quite right to my eyes. There's a few other mostly minor things, but the one thing that destroyed the entire looks of the bike was that honkin' big, cheezy plastic cover under the seat! Good gawd, Miss Molly! What the heck was some designer thinkin'? That looks so ... metric!
Ah well, better close than not at all. And everything I'm gripin' about can be fixed with a wee bit of time, and hardly any money if'n you can wrench even the leetlest bit.
Ah well, better close than not at all. And everything I'm gripin' about can be fixed with a wee bit of time, and hardly any money if'n you can wrench even the leetlest bit.
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I haven't seen one yet in the flesh so to speak, the plastic piece does sound cheesy. When I got my Heritage the one thing I couldn't stand was the rear turn signal bar, since then I've spent over three thousand dollars changing and adding to her. Don't know if I'll ever be done.
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RE: Bobber Rant # 1 (X-Bones)
Sat on one of those, and although I like the look of that old school seat, you sit WAY too high on it...think I saw a pic here that a guy put a H-D Brawler solo seat on his, and it looked pretty good...took away some of the retro look tho...and yeah that plastic looks like $hit!
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I really liked the bike and the seat, had to make a few changes but overall it suits me.
I really liked the bike and the seat, had to make a few changes but overall it suits me.
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I really liked the bike and the seat, had to make a few changes but overall it suits me.
I really liked the bike and the seat, had to make a few changes but overall it suits me.
GREAT CALL on those pipes! they really pull the whole look of the bike together. if i had thought of those pipes when i was thinking of getting a XBones I might have actually bought it.
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I like pretty much everything on the bike except for the seat and the cheezy plastic cover under it. Originally, sprung seats were used to compensate for a lack of rear suspension on a rigid. Putting one on a Softail seems kind of dumb. I sat on one at the dealership and it puts you way too high. I like to be in or part ofthe bike, not on top of it.
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but the one thing that destroyed the entire looks of the bike was that honkin' big, cheezy plastic cover under the seat! Good gawd, Miss Molly! What the heck was some designer thinkin'? That looks so ... metric!
but the one thing that destroyed the entire looks of the bike was that honkin' big, cheezy plastic cover under the seat! Good gawd, Miss Molly! What the heck was some designer thinkin'? That looks so ... metric!
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Agree...that plastic thing under the seat has to go...gone, good-bye, right now.
Don't care what it under there...wires, battery, spring, empty space, or whatever. Anything would look better than that piece of **** plastic cover, or whatever it is called.
Don't care what it under there...wires, battery, spring, empty space, or whatever. Anything would look better than that piece of **** plastic cover, or whatever it is called.