LOL Well put

 

Howdy all. I'm not yet an owner, but am seriously considering it and want to find out more about the bikes "from the Horses' mouths" so to speak, so I just joined the forum. I'm going on 44 this year, been riding 11 years, started out on 1983 Honda shadow, got into sportbikes and roadraced (knee-down stuff) a little on a kickass 600cc single with an open pipe, whatta sound! Currently ride a Ducati 998 and also used to ride a BMW K1100LT until I got creamed by a roll-off truck in Denver traffic, so I'm looking to replace the BMW with something, I don't know what, just something that connects to my soul the way the Ducati does. But, the more and more I look at bikes, the more I am left cold by the plastic and the overengineering - freakin' linked brakes, wtf is up with that?! I can work brakes, thanks very much. Anyway, I'm currently considering a Dyna, either an FXDWG or an FXDX, but until I have cash in hand from the accident, I have to wait. I used to think HD's weren't all that exciting to ride, but then I realized that my opinion didn't mean a thing if I didn't know what I was dissing, so one day I took a demo ride on a wide glide, and a funny thing happened. I LOVED IT! This sportbike-riding formerly HD-dissing guy was converted. Picture me kicked back in my boy-racer jacket and full-face lid, loping down the road on a DWG with a big freakin' smile on my face! This wave of serenity washed over me and I was baptized into the HD religion. Anyway, I'm leaning more and more into getting one - not because of the image or any of that fake crap, but because it's genuine, it's bonafide, it's the Real Deal. Just like the Ducati sportbike is the Real Deal for sportbikes (analog gauges, riding the front wheel, connected to the pavement at all costs), I think HD is the Real Deal when it comes to the American Cruiser. I now understand what the folks mean when they say "if I have to explain, you wouldn't understand". Yes, it's low-tech, yes it vibrates, blah blah blah but when it's all said and done it speaks to me in a way very few modern rides do, and that's the bottom line for me. I don't want to ride an appliance, a blender, I want a MOTORCYCLE. So that's why I'm here.

Anyway, thanks for listening.

 

Scatterbrain, I've done the sportbike and Shadow thing, and I have to tell you I have never been happier with a bike, friendship, fun and all the rest since I came to Harley. If I would have known this 30 years ago I never would have went that route. Yeah, you'll never get sportbike speed, but you'll also never have the time of your life on a road trip with the wife on anything but a HD. You have to do a trip to understand. It's something else!

 

hahahahah omfg rofl !!!! Tell it like it is bro's hahahah

 

Me too Joe. I wish I had trashed my rice burners along time ago.

 

Scatterbrain,: I'm 43 or 44 lol can't remember any how.. Just baught two nwe HD's one xl883l and FXDI I love both. But the Dyna is sweet.

 

Why Harley , Is there any thing else ????
lostinal

 

Not in my opinion anymore. Japan? Where's that?

 

Did everyone skip work today .
Got the flu.Took vac day , rode to the Doc,Got a shot & meds.
been at this computer ever sence .
Life is getting better .
Think I' ll ride to Ga. Tommarow and do the lotto and scratch off Thing .
You can't keep a good harley down
lostinal

 

Well said Joe. I feel the same way...

Ryan