My thoughts on the Sportster 72
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Your hands going number and to an extent, coming off the seat are from your riding inexperience. As you become used to riding and relaxing while on the bike, a lot of this stuff will go away. Coming off the seat IS a problem many have (myself included) but it is a 5 minute fix with a new seat and there are plenty of options for that. The stuff about the grips makes me think a lot of your pain isn't from the back, but rather tensing all of your muscles. I teach wrestling and MMA and the number one problem most people have with physical activities is being super tense and rigid, either from nerves or from trying to compensate for a discrepancy in skill-level. This is where injuries almost always come from.
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To my experience, better shift points for a stock 1200 on the km/h scale would be:
__30__50__70__90___km/h
1.....2.....3.....4.....5...Gear
Last edited by Eisentreiber; Oct 15, 2013 at 08:44 AM.
As you're referring to km/h - 60 in 4th gear seems quite low rpm (2000 or less), no wonder the engine's shuddering under that load. Sporties appreciate rpm, so twist that throttle and feel it run much smoother. Plenty of threads out here commenting on lugging the engine with too low rpms.
To my experience, better shift points for a stock 1200 on the km/h scale would be:
__30__50__70__90___km/h
1.....2.....3.....4.....5...Gear
To my experience, better shift points for a stock 1200 on the km/h scale would be:
__30__50__70__90___km/h
1.....2.....3.....4.....5...Gear
it seems to rev a lil high on 3rd gear so i thought i'd stick it into 4th to save some fuel 
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