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Those are some heavy bikes, nice and smooth when their going but hard to get going from a stop, especially if there's turning to do.
You got that right! Notice that I have saddle bag guard rails on my geezer glide as well? I'm not too worried about dropping my old softie but this new bike is taking some getting used to.
I attended an accident scene last summer where a girl on a Kawi cruiser collided with a deer. The critter's head shattered her knee. I figured if she'd have had a guard on her bike she might not have been hurt at all.
The other reason, is I would really like a set of highway pegs so I can move around a bit on long trips. That's not as important since I bought my geezer glide. I don't put nearly as many miles on the old softie.
If it id not violate the look of my bike so much I would have it for safety reasons as well... I have the leg to prove what happens when an fxst gets Teed by a drunk driver
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