The Fat Boy Is Home!
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Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Rochester, NY
RE: The Fat Boy Is Home!
Congrats on getting home in one piece. Just whatever you do please, please keep it upright. Its a really nice piece of work.
Not sure if the mufflers are the same as my Customs inside. But if they are you may find that they get a bit, not a lot, louder with time. Especially when you take off. Mine sounds like its gotten much louder since I took it home. It also may be just that the longer I have ridden it I have become more comfortable with twisting the throttle harder than I did at first, and the higher power settings make it louder. Its still a bit too quiet at highway cruising speeds, but I can live with it for now.
Good idea taking the riders course, I plan on doing the same come spring time. Unlike you I have ridden "some" in the past 30+ years. But its only amounted to a couple of thousand miles total, not enough to call myself anything like really proficient. Hell I put more miles on this bike in the month I have had it than everything else I have been on in at least the last 3 or 4 years.
So come spring I'll be there with you to take the advanced course, not because I'm advanced, but it will allow me to take it with my own bike. That way I can get to know my bike better rather than one of those little Hondas they use for the beginners classes.
Not sure if the mufflers are the same as my Customs inside. But if they are you may find that they get a bit, not a lot, louder with time. Especially when you take off. Mine sounds like its gotten much louder since I took it home. It also may be just that the longer I have ridden it I have become more comfortable with twisting the throttle harder than I did at first, and the higher power settings make it louder. Its still a bit too quiet at highway cruising speeds, but I can live with it for now.
Good idea taking the riders course, I plan on doing the same come spring time. Unlike you I have ridden "some" in the past 30+ years. But its only amounted to a couple of thousand miles total, not enough to call myself anything like really proficient. Hell I put more miles on this bike in the month I have had it than everything else I have been on in at least the last 3 or 4 years.
So come spring I'll be there with you to take the advanced course, not because I'm advanced, but it will allow me to take it with my own bike. That way I can get to know my bike better rather than one of those little Hondas they use for the beginners classes.
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Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Between Chicago & Milwaukee
RE: The Fat Boy Is Home!
ORIGINAL: XTrooper3936
Thank you all, gentlemen! I sure wish it was spring around the corner instead of winter.
Thank you all, gentlemen! I sure wish it was spring around the corner instead of winter.
I can guarantee you I'll be doing the same.
Road Captain
Joined: May 2006
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From: Central Mass.
RE: The Fat Boy Is Home!
Great looking bike. Ride safe and have fun
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