Was talking to my friend during the Cleveland / Pittsburgh game yesterday about my recent ride on a Honda Rebel. To me, it felt really small.

He offered to let me try his 97 Fatboy; to which I didn't give a second thought! I have to say, it just felt right. I thought it was going to feel too big and hard to control. Of course, it wasn't. He didn't get his bike back for about an hour!

 

OK ya got bit, how you goona fix that problem?
Ya gotta "Get'er done" by getting yourself a Softail. Yep that will fix that bite.

 

I got bit and got the itch for a softail three years ago and I still feel they are the best cruisers on earth. I don't have a desire for any other kind of motorcycle. Before I got into softails I had purchased a used Suzuki C50T for city riding and short trips. The C50T was so smooth and easy to ride that my wife and I did most of our riding on it. As great as the C50T was it still didn't have the feel, sound, or look of a Harley so I did some research and found out the softails had the same kind of counterbalanced engine as the C50t. I took a test ride on a fatboy lo and was hooked. Softails are the only always smooth air cooled motorcycles Harley offer and are simply the best cruisers around.

 

Welcome aboard.

 

The purchase of a Harley is just the start. Add ons and mods are never and I mean never ending. It is a disease that effects the size of you wallet.
I would not have it any other way.

 

Is it just me, or does OP's thread kind of read like a porno script...e.g. "felt small, felt right, thought it would feel too big..."

 

That wasn't a '86 or '87 450 by any chance.....was it?

 

I hear a lot of members comment on how they owned a jap bike before there harley. I got bit young I was sixteen when I order my first bike an XLCH better known as a Sporster. My brother was three years older and was riding harley so I had to follow suit my bike came in in march only had ridden a bike once a Sporster I was now seventeen when it came in I drove it home with ice on the ground had no garage it ended up in my bed room for three days before a friend let me use his garage harley forever my first was a harley and my last will be also

 

Re read original post and laughed out loud. You are right. Someone minds in the gutter, I think.

 

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