Hello my dad is looking to buy a harley after he had to sell road king earlyer in the
year.
We are look ing at this 1996 heritage w/ 30k at a dealer for $8500. It looks real clean and we are going to look at it tomaro.
Tell.me what you think, is it good price how are those evo's any thing to worry about for that year?

 

I have a '96 Heritage and love it. I paid $9500 with 21,000 miles so I think you're in the ball park. the bike looks nice. BTW, if you buy it, google PappaBag inserts and install them on those saddlebags...will make them pop back up like new. $129 for a set of 2.

 

They were decent bikes, Evo's a good motor. Looks real clean, it's not going to ride as nice as a road king but they weren't bad.

 

love my evo

 

Another thing is its a rigid mount motor not Rubber like the RK's and the Dyna's and will vibrate more. He should give it a good ride first to see if he likes it overall.

 

I had a 95 heritage and it was great.......no issues while I owned it......the evos are as bullet proof an engine as ya can get from harley......in fact I find them to be better in reliability as the newer ones.....computers only serve to get you in the dealership more and take your money.....I wont own anything but an evo currently I have a 98 and its great.......heres a good review on evos.
The Evolution Big Twin (herein referred to simply as "Big Twin") saw a fifteen-year run in Harley-Davidson's "big bikes," in the Dyna, Softail, FXR, and Touring frames.
The Big Twin utilizes a single, four-lobe, gear-driven camshaft located just above the crankshaft axis. While this simplifies camshaft replacement, it complicates the Big Twin valvetrain with lifters & pushrods that each deflect from the camshaft at wildly different angles. The Big Twin pushrods have a distinct helical appearance because the vertical plane formed by each cylinder's rockers (front-to-back) is exactly perpendicular to the vertical plane formed by the cam lobes (left-to-right). The need for one lifter & pushrod set to reach all the way out to the most outboard cam lobe gives rise to the Big Twin's tell-tale offset lifter assemblies, where the forward lifter assembly is located slightly farther out and rotated to enable the valve gear to make the reach.
The Big Twin has been accompanied by a number of different primary drives and transmissions, both on production Harley-Davidson motorcycles and in custom applications. The aftermarket selection of accessories for these closely-related systems is wide, as it is for the engine itself.


The Evolution Big Twin motor is, for now, the last of the line of single cam, overhead valve motors tracing their lineage back to the ground breaking Knucklehead design penned by founder Bill Harley. In its 1994 to 1998 final configuration, with rockerbox and base gasket leaks fixed, it proved to be a robust, durable, and versatile power plant for all of the Big Twin platforms

The Evolution engine (popularly known as Evo or Blockhead) is an air-cooled, 45 degree, V-twin motorcycle engine manufactured since 1984 by the Harley Davidson Motor Company. It was made in the 1,340 cc (82 cu in) displacement for Harley-Davidson Big Twin bikes, replacing the Shovelhead engine, until 1999 when it was replaced by the Twin Cam 88s. It was made in the 1,100 cc (67 cu in) displacement and is still made in the 883 cc (53.9 cu in) and 1,200 cc (73 cu in) displacements since 1986 for the Harley-Davidson Sportster, where it also replaced the Ironhead Sportster engine.
Most analysts consider the Evolution to be the engine that saved the reorganized Harley-Davidson company from certain bankruptcy. Harley-Davidson's official name for the engine was likely related to the company's reformed image following the 1981 employee-led buyback from AMF. The nick-name "Blockhead" is derived from the tradition of nick-naming Harley-Davidson engines based on their rocker box shape, which on the Evolution are distinctly rectangular.
Though a major design advance for Harley-Davidson in many ways, the Evolution is most distinct from earlier Harley-Davidson engine designs by virtue of its reliability, oil tightness, and ability to be run hard under all kinds of circumstances for tens of thousands of miles farther than any of its predecessors. Both the heads and cylinders of the Evolution engine are made from aluminum, which is both lighter than iron (reducing overall vehicle weight) and a superior thermal conductor to iron (improving air cooling efficiency). A problem is avoided thereby which occurs when the heads and cylinders are of different materials. They expand and contract at different rates which induces a relative motion; this motion ruins the gasket seal and necessitates replacement.[1] In water-cooled vehicles the oil and water will often mix and contribute to lubrication failure and engine destruction. The blocky rocker boxes, aluminum heads and cylinders (also referred to as "jugs") are the only part of the Evolution engine that can be said to be essential; the Big Twin and Sportster incarnations of the Evolution are significantly different.

 

I have a 99 FLSTC. Looks just like yours but I don't have the seatbacks.

It does vibrate more than the RK but still very comfortable until you hit above 75mph. I wouldn't hesitate to take it on a long haul. That windshield is awesome. I can smoke a cigarette while riding.

I paid $7,500 for mine with 14,000 miles. Not from a dealer.

 

I've got the heritage classic 1998 love it to bits fantastic bike

 

Looks good love my evo 95 flstn

 

Nice ride 96 Evo Is a great engine but price is a bit high for a 96 with 30K
Needs to come down 1000 assuming is looks as nice is real wold as it does in pictures.
Even at that price it would be on the higher end in today's market