Well, its here! Wish I could take her for a spin. Currently working overseas, so my son is picking it up for me.

So, I have a question. I know Harley did not "officially" number the bike series. But, has any one figured out if there is any way to tell which of the 750 you might own?

 

My son said the dealer had it on the show room floor for a bit. But, it caused too mush of a crowd, with too many wanting to touch. So, they rolled her to the back. Thats ok with me, keep them off my bike!!

 

I can't help with the question, but I suspect it'll have something to do with the VIN.

And, by the way, I'm wickedly jealous. I love that machine!

 

Congrats. Enjoy and Ride Safe

 

Congrats!! Awesome Sporty there

 

Didn't like the bike when I first saw it but after seeing one and sitting on it I got the feeling it's gonna be a blast to ride.I'll get a chance one day.Pics don't do the colors on the bike justice.No doubt Harley is starting to go in another direction especially in part design and finish machine work.Enjoy it.

 

Yes, there is a way to determine which of the 750 you got. Since 1980 US vehicles have been required to have a 17 digit VIN number. The VIN will tell you country of origin, manufacturer, model, engine series, year and production series designation. Generally speaking the production series will start at zero with the last 6 digits beginning with the first bike being 000001 and in this case the last being 000750 if the production run actually stops at 750.

In 2004 Yamaha did a complete redesign of the popular FZ6 which had sold huge numbers in Europe since roughly 1996. When they came out in the US they were very had to come by. I got number 200 and the VIN reads 000200.

Check out your XR and let us know which one you got your hands on...

 

I sat on one last week. I really liked. I didnt like the bars. I think there to wide they should use the buell xb12scg bars. There the same style just about 3 inchs narrow.

 

Ya, that's kinda what I thought. Has anyone started a post to see where the numbers fall? It might be interesting to test this theory out. If there are other XR owners, or soon to be. Let me know. Maybe we can start a post, spreadsheet, or something to see where ours might run on the "production run".

Any way, mine ends with ...432307. Do you think mine is number 307 out of 750 then?

Thx...

 

OK, this brings something up that I knew could happen but wasn't sure if Harley would do it this way. The last 6 are the serial number but they use a series of 3 numbers to start off the sequence so rather than start with unit 1 at 000001 they will use their own sequence starting with other numbers that only mean something to Harley.

The first number in the VIN is the country of origin (1), the second and third is the manufacturers designation (HD) the forth is the weight code, the fifth and sixth are the model code, the seventh is the engine code, the eighth is the introduction date code, the ninth is a check digit for their own us, the tenth is the year, the eleventh is the plant designation and the 12th through seventeenth is the serial number.

We need more XR1200 owners to see the extent of the run. At this point I am going with yours being 307 of 750.