I'm looking at 2012 RG Ultra's right now. My '04 EG has been very reliable. The big issue with the HD's in the past few model years has been bearing failures. Good to hear your '12 RG has been good so far. Hate to give up a reliable bike for a ???.

 

Or St. Louis, Collinsville, IL, etc. All the Bandana's are equally just "OK".

For chain BBQ, I like Famous Dave's but, unfortunately, we don't have one in the St. Louis area.

 

Same story every year last year it was glad I bought a 10 instead of a 11. Coming to a thread forum near you. Glad I bought left of 12 because the 13 has gone all to.....

 

I think some have a reason to bitch.
I lost an engine on a 12 Limited at 5000 miles (2 months after purchase). If you think that is just bitchin about the 12 model bikes...Let it happen to you and see how you react.
I think that is something to bitch about...the quality of these bikes has a lot of room for improvement.
I try real hard to keep a good attitude about this bike, but it is getting harder everyday. I love the handling and looks. I am begining to not like the HD coolaid. I think the legend is dead or dying.

The rattling valves/rocker arms on the new engine, compensator noise, and now the forks that sound like it has a big zipper inside them, plus just last week developed some strange rattle while I am sitting at red light in gear so loud the guy in a cage next to you can hear it. (not the common neutral rattle) No oil leaks...yet. No mods except the CATs have been removed, and safety chrome added.
This is not pleasing me with a brand new bike that cost this much. I could maybe understand if it was 5 or 10 years old. I am wondering if AMF has influence on the manufactoring process again. I know all bikes (all brands) have their little problems...but come on.

Got over 13000 miles on it now and gonna ride it into the ground if necessary as long as the warranty holds good. Still got about 17 months left on warranty... Maybe I ride it to much. Maybe if I put less miles on it, I would not have any issues.
If this SOB lets me down during a long road trip, it will be for sale real quick. I think the guys that like garage jewerlry and put only 3000 miles a year on a bike will enjoy this one. One thing I will not tolerate is un-reliablity.

 

I have 9000 miles on my 2012 ultra and all of them have been trouble free. I did do a stage 1 and change out the exhaust to get rid of the cat. Other than that no issues at all.

 

I don't know if this has anything to do with the voltage regulator issue or not. I have a 2003 Classic and a 2003 Ultra. I have lost 2 stators on the Ultra and replaced the regulator each time as a precaution. I recently lost the stator on the Classic and I decided to replace the system with a Cycle Electric system which consisted of a new stator, rotor and regulator. The instructions warned about placing the regulator behind an oil cooler because the regulator may not be able to handle the extra heat coming from the oil cooler since it already has to disipate the heat it generates on its own. Both of these bikes had a Harley Davidson oil cooler mounted in front of the voltage regulator. I purshased a Jeg's oil cooler for the Classic and mounted it to the left frame downtube.

I believe that most if not all 2012 models come standard with oil coolers. The coolers are mounted in front of the regulator. The Cycle Electric unit is a three wire system just like the later HD charging system. Could the heat from the oil cooler be the problem?

 

I got the air conditioning with my ultra. HOT yes 90 in florida waiting for summer.

 

Except for Carlini bagger apes, a national cycle vstream windscreen, and motolights my 2012 103" FLTRX with 10,000 miles has been trouble free. My '07 FLTR did well too, no major repairs and traded it in with approximately 90k miles on it last July to buy the '12. My anecdotal advice is do not change, customize, etc... the engine or transmission. I have had 5 baggers (3 FLH and 2 FLT) since March 1993 and up until my '07 I used to "enhance the engine" and modify the bike in an attempt to gain more torque and power. Every single one of those modified bikes had at least one major breakdown every 20 - 30k miles (approximately yearly). I just have become comfortable with the fact that I can only go about 110 - 120 mph on my current stock 103 HD FLT. If I need more speed I will buy a GSXR, the money for one of those is probably less than the money the mods to my FLT will end up costing once I factor in the future repair costs. Run your bagger with a stock engine and have worry free miles of fun. Oh yeah, buy an extended warranty for the length of your loan term at the very least. That takes the pain out of a major malfunction when you only get a $50 bill on a $2k repair.

 

Damn,,,I found the wrong thread. Can someone point me to the '11 Touring issues thread? The throttle on my sergu likes to stick every so slightly once in a while.

 

I have a '12- aside from the voltage regulator I love the bike- granted I only have 750 miles so far but I am looking forward to many more enjoyable miles