I believe that he is referring to number of units sold. I'm sure they make more Sportsters all together than one model out of the other families.

 

I may have the answer for you seikan1. I have an 05 1200 Custom, and an 07 EG Classic. It's hard for me to ride my Sportster for more than a few hours, but I can stay on my Classic for days. Its a comfort thing. So, maybe we see more baggers just because they stay on the road longer. By the way, for the short time that I ride my Sportsterit's really ablast. The Classic is fun, but in a different way than the Sportster. Hard to beat its pure get up and go!

 

well there are probably 15 or so big twin models,so say the sportster sold 3000 units and all the big twins sold 1000 units each.The sportster is the best selling,but youll still see more big twins.

 

I am noticing alot of Sportsters out on the road these days, more than Baggers.Over the summer it was the opposite.
The only things I notice about the big baggers is how often they are dropped....

 

well there are 4 families of big twins and only one family of sportsters. so that is why you see more big twins

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I know a few guys with Sportsters,but it seems that around here (Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas areas) you will see more of them when you get in the more populated metropolitan areas.

But most of the guys that I know that are required to put a lot of miles on their bikes, riding state to state to attend various sanctioned functions, prefer the larger big twins whenputting ina lot of hard miles.

 

BINGO!!

If you want to see all the Sportsters that are sold, ya gotta start looking in garages, not on the road. Speaking of which, it's time to get mine back outta the garage. I've got a full day of riding planned. [sm=biker2.gif]

 

Don't sweat it... consider yourself to be in a unique category of riders.

Sure, I'd like to be one of those guys with a Harley that is so-decked out that it should be sitting in a motorcycle museum on display somewhere... but I ride what I ride and marvel at what I see other's are riding and tell myself "someday I'll have something like what that guy is riding."

At dozens ofbiker parties, I've sat back at a distance and watched riders (riders of Fatboys, shovelheads,Roadsters, customs, etc.)stand around a look over my bike for several minutes... I get up and slowly walk to the bike while they are there and unzip my tank bag to get something out and say "hello" to them.They always say "nice bike, what year?" I answer back "it's the 07 with the Evolution engine." Then a reply of "cool" or "sharp bike" is a common reply... then I say "yeah, I turned 42 this year and felt like getting a bike so I chose thisSportster for my very first bike." Then they usually say "great choice", "nice" or "cool."

As you've read in this HD forum, a majority of HD riders have started with the Sportster and then graduated to bigger models. They say the Sportster is the hardest bike to ride because it's top-heavy which makes it harder to control. And if you can ride a Sportster,the rest of the HDbike line will seem extremely be easy to ride.

I learned in my MSF course that you should ride what you feel safest on so you are controlling the bike instead of it controlling you... otherwise youcould end up in the obits.

Riders don't dis' other peoples rides... even if they have to lie when saying "cool" and "awesome" when looking at the bike.

Relax, you've got a Harley. Feel the greatness of it when you are at a stop sign. Look around at the guys in the cars when you realize that they are looking at your bike and they are wishing that they were you or the women in the cars looking and wishing they were riding on the bike with you... I see this everyday, especially when I fly by the bus stops. I see the heads turn my way when I'm coming towards them about a 1/2 mile away, and then they are usually smiling at me as I go by.

It's great.

 

Sales figures for HD Sportsters... 12.4% increase in 2007 over 2006 with54,903 sold. Both custom and touring models dropped by 6.6% probably because of cost.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/071102/hog10-q.html

Motorcycle Unit Shipments & Net Revenue

The following table includes wholesale motorcycle unit shipments and net revenue
for the Motorcycles segment (dollars in millions):

Nine months ended
September 30, September 24, (Decrease) %
2007 2006 Increase Change
---------------- ---------------- ------------ ---------
Motorcycle Unit Shipments
United States 182,447 198,720 (16,273 ) (8.2 %)
International 66,966 57,628 9,338 16.2
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Harley-Davidson motorcycle units 249,413 256,348 (6,935 ) (2.7 )
-------------- -------------- ----------
Touring motorcycle units 84,934 90,914 (5,980 ) (6.6 )
Custom motorcycle units* 109,576 116,604 (7,028 ) (6.0 )
[b]Sportster motorcycle units 54,903&n

 

The reason you're not seeing all of the Sportster riders out on the road is because they're all recuperating from sexual exhaustion from the scores of hot babes angling for a bit of their "Sporty Vibe."

Oh oh, alarm went off. Time to stop dreaming.[&:]