Pulled the trigger
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Pulled the trigger
Well, there I was walking around the local Harley dealership on my way to West Palm for the weekend. My buddy had come down from Nashville the night before and we started joking about upgrading our bikes. His is a 2011 FLHTK and mine is a 2012 FLHTK, we had looked at the HD website the night before, and we were both sold on the new CVO's. of course, we were joking and just stopped in to look at them, I liked the burgundy, and he was partial to the tribal orange (color would be close to his Challenger). I think if they had the bikes in stock we would have traded that day. But we were told that the CVO's were difficult to come by, and that was a great excuse to get our ***'s out of there before we did something foolish... Yeah right....
Instead we went to the John Staluppi Auction. I don't know how many of you are familiar with his collection, but lets just say it was amazing, I think the 117 cars sold for around $11,500,000.00. Wow! The highlight for us was a 2005 VRod that sold for 51,700.00, this was Evel Knievel's screaming eagle.
So after a weekend of rubbing shoulders with some very wealthy collectors (Leno was there), came back home with hundreds of photo's and a desire to upgrade.
So there I was again, back at the Harley dealership (Spacecoast), and my favorite salesman came up and told he just got a Tribal Orange CVO'S in off the truck. But I held firm, told him I needed to see it in the sun before I would commit to trading in my 6 month old Limited.
Off I went, back home to ponder this purchase and telling myself all night, that I was not going to buy... Yeah right...
Next day in the sun.... And my only question was "Where do I sign?"
I only needed three changes:
1. Swap out my backrest from the Limited to the new bike (I really like the hydraulic back support).
2. Ordered replacement hinges for the tour pack.
3. Replaced the 10 inch windshield with a 12.
I can't think of anything else that needs to be done, what a beautiful color scheme, the striping is dead on...
I am one happy camper, now all I want to do is ride, glad I live in Florida, heading to Miami tomorrow...
Instead we went to the John Staluppi Auction. I don't know how many of you are familiar with his collection, but lets just say it was amazing, I think the 117 cars sold for around $11,500,000.00. Wow! The highlight for us was a 2005 VRod that sold for 51,700.00, this was Evel Knievel's screaming eagle.
So after a weekend of rubbing shoulders with some very wealthy collectors (Leno was there), came back home with hundreds of photo's and a desire to upgrade.
So there I was again, back at the Harley dealership (Spacecoast), and my favorite salesman came up and told he just got a Tribal Orange CVO'S in off the truck. But I held firm, told him I needed to see it in the sun before I would commit to trading in my 6 month old Limited.
Off I went, back home to ponder this purchase and telling myself all night, that I was not going to buy... Yeah right...
Next day in the sun.... And my only question was "Where do I sign?"
I only needed three changes:
1. Swap out my backrest from the Limited to the new bike (I really like the hydraulic back support).
2. Ordered replacement hinges for the tour pack.
3. Replaced the 10 inch windshield with a 12.
I can't think of anything else that needs to be done, what a beautiful color scheme, the striping is dead on...
I am one happy camper, now all I want to do is ride, glad I live in Florida, heading to Miami tomorrow...
Tourer
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 435
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Well Congratulations & Welcome to the CVO club!
It sure seems like FLHTK is the spring board for the CVO Ulra. I traded in my 2011 FLHTK for my 2012 CVO Ultra and couldn't be happier! Enjoy, & post some pics when you get a rest from riding!
P.S. I did the hinges soon as I got home. They look a lot better!
It sure seems like FLHTK is the spring board for the CVO Ulra. I traded in my 2011 FLHTK for my 2012 CVO Ultra and couldn't be happier! Enjoy, & post some pics when you get a rest from riding!P.S. I did the hinges soon as I got home. They look a lot better!
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Jun 2010
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From: Sussex, South of England
There I was thinking that you just fessed up on killing the dealer. It seems now that you bought a new bike, again. Man, I would love to have a little pruning session on that money tree of yours.
Congrats!!!!!
Congrats!!!!!
Road Warrior
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Beautiful bike. congrats and welcome to the cvo world. I don't know if you saw Kingspoke's thread about his bags getting stolen but check into Brutkus saddlebag secure set up just to keep them safe.
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Road Master
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Well, there I was walking around the local Harley dealership on my way to West Palm for the weekend. My buddy had come down from Nashville the night before and we started joking about upgrading our bikes. His is a 2011 FLHTK and mine is a 2012 FLHTK, we had looked at the HD website the night before, and we were both sold on the new CVO's. of course, we were joking and just stopped in to look at them, I liked the burgundy, and he was partial to the tribal orange (color would be close to his Challenger). I think if they had the bikes in stock we would have traded that day. But we were told that the CVO's were difficult to come by, and that was a great excuse to get our ***'s out of there before we did something foolish... Yeah right....
Instead we went to the John Staluppi Auction. I don't know how many of you are familiar with his collection, but lets just say it was amazing, I think the 117 cars sold for around $11,500,000.00. Wow! The highlight for us was a 2005 VRod that sold for 51,700.00, this was Evel Knievel's screaming eagle.
So after a weekend of rubbing shoulders with some very wealthy collectors (Leno was there), came back home with hundreds of photo's and a desire to upgrade.
So there I was again, back at the Harley dealership (Spacecoast), and my favorite salesman came up and told he just got a Tribal Orange CVO'S in off the truck. But I held firm, told him I needed to see it in the sun before I would commit to trading in my 6 month old Limited.
Off I went, back home to ponder this purchase and telling myself all night, that I was not going to buy... Yeah right...
Next day in the sun.... And my only question was "Where do I sign?"
I only needed three changes:
1. Swap out my backrest from the Limited to the new bike (I really like the hydraulic back support).
2. Ordered replacement hinges for the tour pack.
3. Replaced the 10 inch windshield with a 12.
I can't think of anything else that needs to be done, what a beautiful color scheme, the striping is dead on...
I am one happy camper, now all I want to do is ride, glad I live in Florida, heading to Miami tomorrow...
Instead we went to the John Staluppi Auction. I don't know how many of you are familiar with his collection, but lets just say it was amazing, I think the 117 cars sold for around $11,500,000.00. Wow! The highlight for us was a 2005 VRod that sold for 51,700.00, this was Evel Knievel's screaming eagle.
So after a weekend of rubbing shoulders with some very wealthy collectors (Leno was there), came back home with hundreds of photo's and a desire to upgrade.
So there I was again, back at the Harley dealership (Spacecoast), and my favorite salesman came up and told he just got a Tribal Orange CVO'S in off the truck. But I held firm, told him I needed to see it in the sun before I would commit to trading in my 6 month old Limited.
Off I went, back home to ponder this purchase and telling myself all night, that I was not going to buy... Yeah right...
Next day in the sun.... And my only question was "Where do I sign?"
I only needed three changes:
1. Swap out my backrest from the Limited to the new bike (I really like the hydraulic back support).
2. Ordered replacement hinges for the tour pack.
3. Replaced the 10 inch windshield with a 12.
I can't think of anything else that needs to be done, what a beautiful color scheme, the striping is dead on...
I am one happy camper, now all I want to do is ride, glad I live in Florida, heading to Miami tomorrow...
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