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Old 06-23-2017, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mrhammer2u
More power? You mean you're not satisfied with beating up on 883's and Honda Shadows? I'm more and more realizing that my stage 1 1200 is not a fast bike and to make it fast you have to stop bleeding your wallet dry for a few hp here and there. Either drop the few thou for a 100+ hp kit or realize you have a respectable cruiser. A gear change will give you a slight fix that'll be good for day 1. "Drop in" cams (no head work or clearancing) are cheap if you install yourself but only good for a couple/few hp. A few hp is not going to keep you off of WOT.
ok so i guess your vote goes toward the harley xdiavel. Thats more than a few thousands. Thats more like 27k canadian.
 
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Bahahaha that's the dumbest thing I've heard all month lol 😂
sub ten sportster build is in the place. Respect.

**** sport bikes. Thats for kids. I want loud and mean.
 
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Old 06-23-2017, 10:04 PM
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ok so i guess your vote goes toward the harley xdiavel. Thats more than a few thousands. Thats more like 27k canadian.
You can have a fast bike. Or you can have a Harley. Just keeping it real.
 
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Originally Posted by mrhammer2u
You can have a fast bike. Or you can have a Harley. Just keeping it real.
to be fair:
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This was winter time Dyno results. Dry and cold weather. Little more on summer.


 
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Originally Posted by mrhammer2u
You can have a fast bike. Or you can have a Harley. Just keeping it real.
i want a faster harley. But thanks to you and everyone else that tried to point to me the obvious. Would have been really helpful if i were completely retarded. But thats not the answer i'm looking for.
 
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Old 06-24-2017, 08:55 AM
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But is it still a Harley? At some point the line blurs. Kinda like Caitlyn Jenner.
 
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i want a faster harley. But thanks to you and everyone else that tried to point to me the obvious. Would have been really helpful if i were completely retarded. But thats not the answer i'm looking for.
Lol! I don't think any of us were treating you as such. I know I was being self depricating, I love my sporty. You did get real answers but you never really mentioned a budget so you got pot luck responses.

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i want a faster harley. But thanks to you and everyone else that tried to point to me the obvious. Would have been really helpful if i were completely retarded. But thats not the answer i'm looking for.
The words Fast and Harley are kind of an oxy moron..... These bikes were not designed to be fast. You could dump thousands or like some on here even 10's of thousands to make your Harley "fast". Meanwhile a kid on a $3000 fifteen year old sport bike will ride past you on the highway like your stuck in 1st gear. That's fact!!! Don't matter how much HP the little piece of paper on a dyno tells you. Still gonna be heavy still gonna be slow.

I've owned Harley's and I've owned sport bikes and still currently own both so I know wtf I'm talking about. You wanna dump thousands into your slow *** sportster to make it less slow be my guess but that sounds retarded to me. The bike is what it is ride it enjoy it throw a pipe and tune on it and go to town on some back roads. Unless your handy with a wrench and got thousands of dollars to **** away and a few spare motors in the garage don't bother trying to make The tortoise The hare.
 
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Opinions vary Ask Madnss if he likes his 9 second sportster. I know I love my 90 + HP Sportster. It does exactly what I want from it. And if I wanted a sports bike I could buy one and pay cash. Reality is I do not want one. never have and never will.

If I buy any more bikes they would be a 1956 KHK flat head and a 1969 shovel head.
 

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At risk of guffaws, my Sporty is sporty. I've had sport bikes and I like them. My bike is fairly light, handles well and is pretty darn fast. I don't need to apologize for it because it's not a cruiser like the big boys.
 


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