will a 883 push a windshild ok?
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RE: will a 883 push a windshild ok?
the bike can handle 250lb guys. don't ya think that that's more extra drag than the little more a windshield creates? There are cars out there with engines just barely more powerful than the 883 and they push around a windshield AND the car it's attached to...
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RE: will a 883 push a windshild ok?
I love how a 883cc bike gets talked about like it's a ten-speed. In the Harley world, it may be small, displacement wise, but by any other standard, it is a big bike. Remember, it is still a heavyweight cruiser, not a 250 Honda rebel.
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RE: will a 883 push a windshild ok?
ORIGINAL: OldFenderGuy
A windshield doesn't have much more (if any) 'surface area' than your chest/head/arms.
If you don't use a windshield the wind is hitting your body.
If you use a windshield the wind is hitting the windshield.
Not much of a difference one way or the other as far as the wind pushing something.
A windshield doesn't have much more (if any) 'surface area' than your chest/head/arms.
If you don't use a windshield the wind is hitting your body.
If you use a windshield the wind is hitting the windshield.
Not much of a difference one way or the other as far as the wind pushing something.
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RE: will a 883 push a windshild ok?
An XL883C is one of the most fun all around bikes I have everrode, but cruise at 75MPH ??? Excuse me for saying so, but with only five gears you will be a milk shake in no time.
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RE: will a 883 push a windshild ok?
ORIGINAL: why_me
I love how a 883cc bike gets talked about like it's a ten-speed. In the Harley world, it may be small, displacement wise, but by any other standard, it is a big bike. Remember, it is still a heavyweight cruiser, not a 250 Honda rebel.
I love how a 883cc bike gets talked about like it's a ten-speed. In the Harley world, it may be small, displacement wise, but by any other standard, it is a big bike. Remember, it is still a heavyweight cruiser, not a 250 Honda rebel.
PS: If she really wants to "cruise" at 75, dynamolowrider, rather than twisting the heck out of the engine, drop in for her 883 a set of 1200 sprockets.
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RE: will a 883 push a windshild ok?
ORIGINAL: Thongs2U
An XL883C is one of the most fun all around bikes I have everrode, but cruise at 75MPH ??? Excuse me for saying so, but with only five gears you will be a milk shake in no time.
An XL883C is one of the most fun all around bikes I have everrode, but cruise at 75MPH ??? Excuse me for saying so, but with only five gears you will be a milk shake in no time.
and highly ignorant...