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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 04:10 PM
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Visited the dealership, ate a hot dog, test rode the 2018 Heritage, and traded my Honda CTX in for a blacked out Heritage.

Amazing bike.


 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 04:11 PM
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Congrats and enjoy it
 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 05:22 PM
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Beautiful. If you need to kill a few hours read this thread, very informative.

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...ge-thread.html

congrats
 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 05:49 PM
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Beautiful bike
 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 07:11 PM
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Congrats! Nice bike.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 07:22 PM
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Welcome to the Heritage club.
Congrat's... you are gonna love it.
Plan on Fangs and a recurve windshield.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 08:09 PM
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You picked a fine ride. Enjoy.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2018 | 08:48 PM
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it was the hot dog....wasn't it? damn good dog will do that for ya. Welcome to the heritage club!!
 
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Old Jul 8, 2018 | 12:56 AM
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Thanks, guys. Best ride I ever had.

Notice the comments above on the recurve shield and Fangs. Not sure what Fangs are. LOL.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2018 | 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by army_eod
... Not sure what Fangs are.
Assuming you are not putting me on, Fangs are fork mounted wind deflectors.

Most owners have found wind buffeting to be a problem with the stock '18 Heritage at highway speeds. A set of Fangs and a proper height (measured correctly to suit the rider) recurve windshield eliminates the wind buffeting problem.

Of course these are only the beginning of the Mods you will most likely want ot do, but IMHO, are the most important right away. Oh, maybe a good set of replacement mirrors might be high on that list also so you can see behind you, The stock mirrors just did not work well enough for me.


 
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