The Fat Boy Is Home!
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Road Warrior
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From: Retired and living in the mountains of NE PA
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Beautiful bike XTrooper! Nothing like a Softail! If you get close to Indianapolis let me know and we'll go for a ride!
Beautiful bike XTrooper! Nothing like a Softail! If you get close to Indianapolis let me know and we'll go for a ride!
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From: Columbus, OH
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Nice bike Troop! The stock pipes do "loosen up" a bit with time. Once you break her in and get on it they bark a little more (but not enough). I have heard the Rush slip ons on a Fatboy and they sound great, however, they don't get rid of the annoying reflection of the rear pipe that you can see in the oil tank. There, I did it, now it's going to bug the hell out of you too! LOL.
I will probably be going with Vance and Hines (Big Shot Staggereds) and a PCIII this winter to get my bike really barking!
Enjoy your new ride.
I will probably be going with Vance and Hines (Big Shot Staggereds) and a PCIII this winter to get my bike really barking!
Enjoy your new ride.
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Great looking bike!!
Sold my 1972 Triumph and bought a Low Rider last Spring. Took a while to get used to the Low Rider.
I'm sure you'll get your "sea legs" real soon, especially when your new exhaust talks to you!!
Sammi
Sold my 1972 Triumph and bought a Low Rider last Spring. Took a while to get used to the Low Rider.
I'm sure you'll get your "sea legs" real soon, especially when your new exhaust talks to you!!
Sammi
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Road Warrior
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From: Retired and living in the mountains of NE PA
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I have a feeling that if the weather cooperates at all you'll probably have well over a 1000 miles on your bike and be comfortable enough on it to want to go the advancd route. In any case whichever route we go I'm sure it will be time and money well spent for both of us.
I have a feeling that if the weather cooperates at all you'll probably have well over a 1000 miles on your bike and be comfortable enough on it to want to go the advancd route. In any case whichever route we go I'm sure it will be time and money well spent for both of us.
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Road Warrior
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From: Retired and living in the mountains of NE PA
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Thanks, men!
Well, I spent all yesterday afternoon riding and put another 40 miles on the bike. I also spent a good hour or more in our local movie theater parking lot practicing my takeoffs while getting used to the clutch, doing figure 8s, and executing slow right and left turns. My confidence level is WAY up from what it was just yesterday morning and it's amazing how much better a rider I am with just an afternoon of practice. It's supposed to be nice again tomorrow and Thursday, so I'll be back at the parking lot going through my drills.
Well, I spent all yesterday afternoon riding and put another 40 miles on the bike. I also spent a good hour or more in our local movie theater parking lot practicing my takeoffs while getting used to the clutch, doing figure 8s, and executing slow right and left turns. My confidence level is WAY up from what it was just yesterday morning and it's amazing how much better a rider I am with just an afternoon of practice. It's supposed to be nice again tomorrow and Thursday, so I'll be back at the parking lot going through my drills.
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On Saturday I'd have send NEVER to this idea, but now I think your prediction may very well come true. I'll likely be taking the advanced course in the spring so that I can learn on my own bike and my confidence level is at the point now where I feel I'll do well enough to not embarrass myself.
On Saturday I'd have send NEVER to this idea, but now I think your prediction may very well come true. I'll likely be taking the advanced course in the spring so that I can learn on my own bike and my confidence level is at the point now where I feel I'll do well enough to not embarrass myself.
Given that, I have to think that there is no way in hell your going to leave it parked in the garage for the next 6 or so months.
Your an Ex-Trooper, what do you call a case where all of the witness statements, physical, and circumstantial evidence identifies only one possible perpetrator, solved?
Your like me, and will probably be comfortable enough by next spring to wonder if you really need to take a course at all. While it’s a foregone conclusion we haven’t grown up, that we bought Harley’s is proof of that, we have hopefully gotten a bit wiser with time and will go take the course.
In the case of the beginners vs. advanced courses it really doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense to take the beginners course.
Think about it, we are more than likely going to ride our bikes to a class where they are training real beginners. Then park it to practice staying upright on something that feels like a rinky dink scooter or mini bike when compared to the 700+ lb, 8+ foot long gorilla you used to get there. Doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it.