Fatboy for two up riding
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Joined: May 2008
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From: Newcastle, Ca.
It takes me four minutes from 1up, 1+up or 2up!! lol
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Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Richmond, VA
Sheeeet, it takes longer than that just to wait for a buddy to stop laughing, get off his bike and help back an Ultra out of a bad parking spot. 
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Joined: Dec 2010
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From: Sheboygan,Wi
Yep the Fatboy is a great 2up bike. Wife loved the wider passenger pillion, back rest and windshield. She now has her own bike so there is not much 2up riding anymore. But like mentioned above in a matter of less then 5 min you can change it over.
Road Captain
Joined: May 2010
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From: New York
My wife loves the Fatboy. She's quite comfy. I remove the Le Pera and put the Stock seat on along with sissy bar and the detachable bags and we are good. NO complaints and let me tell you, she would complain.
Road Captain
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 610
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From: Indiana
Fatboys are great bikes. For me they are not an option for 2 up due to the gvwr. I am 330, so my wife and I together are quite a bit over the gvwr of the Fatboy. Road King gives us more weight and load capacity.
Tourer
Joined: Dec 2010
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From: Mesa arizona
Fat Boys are outstanding two up cruisers that are very capable of going the distance. One of the best I have ever owned. More roomy than my Dyna and not the 900 pound tank the Ultra's are. I can't tell you how many of my buddy's can't even back there touring bikes out of parking spots, or have to make a big production trying to find a place/way to park just so they can get out of a slanted parking lot. Not for me! Since buying this Fat Boy, I am sold on them. We just rode to the smoke out and back. Almost seven hundred miles round trip in one day. Both me and the other Fat Boy in the pack were as comfy as any other bike. They are outstanding two up motorcycles and with the vast array of accessories such as full size windshields, tour packs, saddlebags, sissy bars and seats, your can customize your Fat Boy to be exactly what you want for two up LONG hauls.
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From: Richmond, VA
But if you have all that experience picking up dropped Ultra's, you pretty much made my point for me.
Last edited by bikerlaw; Jul 21, 2012 at 08:43 PM.
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Joined: Jul 2012
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From: Chicago
We just completed a 6 day, 5 night road trip from Chicago to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky via the Hoosier National Forest on my 2012 Fat Boy Lo. Stock seat, detachable sissy bar and the wide pad. I'm also configured with the detachable saddle bags and no windshield.
Our longest stretch at one time was about 250 miles with no complaints from my wife until our 5th day out. By the end of the 5th day, we were both butt tired but consider this is the most ambitious outing we've taken since I learned to ride in September of last year.
Having completed the trip, I'm inclined to replace the passenger pegs with floorboards to give her greater positioning options and some added sense of security. Performance wise, the bike was responsive and still easy to handle feeling very much like it was just the passenger and nothing more.
To further flesh out the configuration and give you a sense of what we were able to load on the bike for this trip, I packed rain gear in each saddle bag, camp stove in one, camp cookware in the other, sweater/long sleeve shirts in both, camp towels and pillows in both, first aid kit and a handful of other small items.
On the luggage rack I packed a Tourmaster Cruiser III Sissy Bar Large pack fully loaded with two stuff sacks of clothes, camp food, fuel for camp stove, a fry pan, camp shoes, maps and a variety of toiletries.
An REI Quarterdome T2 two man tent was bungied to the back of the Tourmaster pack as well.
That said, I don't know what I'm missing but I'm very happy with the performance of my Fat Boy for 2 up riding.
Our longest stretch at one time was about 250 miles with no complaints from my wife until our 5th day out. By the end of the 5th day, we were both butt tired but consider this is the most ambitious outing we've taken since I learned to ride in September of last year.
Having completed the trip, I'm inclined to replace the passenger pegs with floorboards to give her greater positioning options and some added sense of security. Performance wise, the bike was responsive and still easy to handle feeling very much like it was just the passenger and nothing more.
To further flesh out the configuration and give you a sense of what we were able to load on the bike for this trip, I packed rain gear in each saddle bag, camp stove in one, camp cookware in the other, sweater/long sleeve shirts in both, camp towels and pillows in both, first aid kit and a handful of other small items.
On the luggage rack I packed a Tourmaster Cruiser III Sissy Bar Large pack fully loaded with two stuff sacks of clothes, camp food, fuel for camp stove, a fry pan, camp shoes, maps and a variety of toiletries.
An REI Quarterdome T2 two man tent was bungied to the back of the Tourmaster pack as well.
That said, I don't know what I'm missing but I'm very happy with the performance of my Fat Boy for 2 up riding.