top speed
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top speed
I know top speed isn't an issue for softail owners but would be really interested to know what numbers you guys have managed to wring out of your machines, especially if its a Fatboy! I've seen 138mph on a private road but ran out of road.
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But I guess my 2010 Fat Boy has more steam than I thought.
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I can get my FatBoy to 100+ easily, I do it quite often when riding with my son. He has a Gixxer 1000 and seems to feel a need to shorten the straigtaways 
Any faster than that and the upright riding position makes me feel like sail.
Any faster than that and the upright riding position makes me feel like sail.
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I've been to 107mph on my fatboy lo.. can't stand going that fast, like Tracker said, I feel like a sail. I'm also a big fan of being alive, and there is no where I need to get to that fast which I would need to go over 85 mph.. there's also no bloody way in hell a twin-cam is going to outrun a supercharged police cruiser, so it's just not worth it to me.. but to each their own.
I used to ride with a bunch of guys who owned sportbikes (GSX-R 1000's, R1's, R6's, YZF-600's, etc etc).. i told them before every ride "Okay, where are we going? good, i'll meet you guys there." because they would take off down the road at 150mph and i'd be like "HAHHA no." I don't ride with those guys anymore because 3 of them crashed from doing stupid stuff (no one died, thankfully), but it was just a bad group to be around.
I used to ride with a bunch of guys who owned sportbikes (GSX-R 1000's, R1's, R6's, YZF-600's, etc etc).. i told them before every ride "Okay, where are we going? good, i'll meet you guys there." because they would take off down the road at 150mph and i'd be like "HAHHA no." I don't ride with those guys anymore because 3 of them crashed from doing stupid stuff (no one died, thankfully), but it was just a bad group to be around.
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I ride a Harley for the low end torque; I couldn't care less about top end speed. I ride mostly on mountain roads with lots of hills and tight turns. I can't stand the idiots on crotch rockets who fly past me on a tight twisty road with double yellow lines, completely oblivious to oncoming traffic, putting my wife's and my lives at risk.
It wouldn't bother me at all so see one of those jerks wrapped around a tree. That herd NEEDS some thinning.
It wouldn't bother me at all so see one of those jerks wrapped around a tree. That herd NEEDS some thinning.
