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Dec 22, 2008 | 05:43 AM

#31

Raaze07

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From: Broadview Heights, OH

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Originally Posted by Marsh

Your friend need to have 2 of his 4 ***** removed.

Marsh

Thanks - I almost spit my morning coffee all over my keyboard!

Dec 22, 2008 | 06:16 AM

#32

hammerhead32158

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From: Seven Valleys Pa.

Please ask him if I can take an insurance policy on him. I could use the money.

Dec 22, 2008 | 10:44 AM

#33

harley1425

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From: Joplin, Mo

I think most of you that have replied are pansy's. If you have ever ridden through Montana or Wyoming you would understand 85mph. The bike will stop just as quick on cruise as off and you don't get as tired using the cruise on the interstate as having to hold the throttle open. As to the throttle lock, that is the most unsafe thing I have ever seen on a bike. Can't shut it off quick and doesn't compensate for hills.

Dec 22, 2008 | 11:17 AM

#34

glens

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From: Indy area

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Originally Posted by ***** G.

I personally don't get cruise control on a bike... It seems like a waste of money.

It came standard on my FLHRC. I don't feel at this time that I'd ever want a radio on a bike, but I've never traveled with one. I'd have felt the same about the cruise control, but now that I've had it, I can't see spending much real time on a bike without it. Sure, it's not appropriate in all situations. Like going into some curves up a hill, where it's a little weird to have the bike be accelerating. But this is true in cars and trucks, too.

The upper and lower limits of use seem a little arbitrary to me. I'd like to be able to putt around a parking lot or through a campground at a fixed, low speed. It's also appropriate for use above 85 mph on occasion; such as Montana, etc.

There are several reliable ways to quickly disengage it. Not quite as quickly as just letting go of the throttle, but not much slower, either.

Dec 22, 2008 | 02:04 PM

#35

bartb1200

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From: Debary Fl

Then he can lay back on the tour pack and put his feet on the handle bars.woohoo

Dec 22, 2008 | 03:18 PM

#36

badblue

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From: Colorado Springs

You people have to be kidding me!! Do any of you actually tour on your bike or just sit at home and look at it. Because if you tour you will see that having cruise set above 85 is not dangerous if you have more then one brain cell. People who drive slower then the pace of traffic are way more dangerous then someone who stays with the flow. Maybe most of you think the speed limit is still 55.

Dec 22, 2008 | 04:24 PM

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Marsh

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From: Franklin, TN

Well, I love my cruise control as well as anyone who has one does. I like being able to take my right hand off the trottle to do a number of things while riding including just relaxing that hand, but while riding through Montana & Wy., remember most of those vast plains you are riding through have no fences, BUT have lots of antelope that like to dart out in front of you. Not to mention the occasional cow,
Marsh