Harley's handle!

[atadaskew]

Me on Slow Bobby Saturday morning on Mulholland above the Rock Store:

[Geoff]

Nice pic! Working those chicken strips, huh?

[chornbe]

Awesome  

[1KPerDay]

Looks like a catalog pic.

[atadaskew]

Nice pic! Working those chicken strips, huh?

It's forever gonna have chicken strips unless I put on longer shocks!  Stuff touches down before it gets close to the edge of the tyres.  This aint a sporty bike, this is a motor-sickle!
 

[chornbe]

Looks like a catalog pic.

Agreed[1].










[1] excepin' that no self-respekkin Harley catuhlog ain't gonna have no bike leeenin' an' shit. tha's jus' crazy talkin' thar.

[rauchman]

Very cool pic.  Yeah, there no sportbike, but they handle better than a lot of people give them credit for.  I sold a Yamaha Roadstar to get an SV1000S.  I'm seriously considering going back to a cruiser.  All I want to do on the SV is go FAST.  At least on the cruiser, you can work the bike without going 3x the speed limit.  Hmmmm.... possibly a Superglide in my future???

[chornbe]

The Superglide is the *the* platform from which to start.  

[st ryder]

The Superglide is the *the* platform from which to start.  

Dynas are the best handling BT Harleys for sure.  

[st ryder]

Me on Slow Bobby Saturday morning on Mulholland above the Rock Store:

Nice pic. Even if you wanted to "work" the chicken strips, Mul(radar)hul(radar)and(radar) Hi(radar)gh(radar)way(radar) is probably not the best place to do it.

Umm, atgatt on a Dyna? Chill out dude. Get a shorty, and some armoured jeans.

Nice bike.  

[1KPerDay]

Umm, atgatt on a Dyna? Chill out dude. Get a shorty, and some armoured jeans.

The road's just as hard and abrasive if you fall off a Harley going 70 mph as a sportbike going 70 mph...

[atypical1]

Sweet pic but you should have left the knee pucks on.

james

[1KPerDay]

Werd... and tried to get a knee down.

[Geoff]

It's forever gonna have chicken strips unless I put on longer shocks!  Stuff touches down before it gets close to the edge of the tyres.  This aint a sporty bike, this is a motor-sickle!

Just file 'em like the sportbike guys.

[st ryder]

The road's just as hard and abrasive if you fall off a Harley going 70 mph as a sportbike going 70 mph...

Only if you're a poseur.  

[atadaskew]

The road's just as hard and abrasive if you fall off a Harley going 70 mph as a sportbike going 70 mph...

Egg-sackery.
Plus I feel much more comfortable riding in leathers with a full face helmet.  No crap smacking me in the face, helmet is not getting pulled off by the wind at speed.  IMO the poseurs are the ones wearing beanies so people can check out their tuff mugs...

[atadaskew]

Werd... and tried to get a knee down.

With apes that aint gonna happen!  Not unless my arms are 6 ft long!

[1KPerDay]

Only if you're a poseur.  

[rauchman]

Curious how you like the bike...braking, suspension, etc???

[atadaskew]

Curious how you like the bike...braking, suspension, etc???

I only have about 400 miles on it so far due to work and the fact that when I go on a long ride (300+ a day on most Sundays) I take the Duc.
Suspension? Yes it has some. It is not plush, but much better than I thought it would be.  I mean there's only about 1mm travel on the back shocks but I knew that this was how it was going to be.  I have the Duc for all that stuff.  Itsa cruiser after all.
Brakes? Has those too.. The owner's manual said to take it easy for the first 200 miles which makes sense so they can bed it.  For the first 20 miles, felt like I should stop Fred Flintstone style.  100 miles it got ok.  200 miles much better.
It's fine now.
Motor, fueling, chassis all are excellent.  Best FI I've ever tried.  Belt drive is fantastic, smoothest drive train I've ever had.  Bike shakes at idle, becomes completely smooth at speed.
The one change I would make (eventually) is go over the suspension.  but that can be said for all bikes (I even put a heavier spring on my Ohlins shock on the Duc).
Gotta say I love the bike for what it is.  But empirically it does not compare to an St.  But it is not meant to and that's why I got it. It was meant to put a big sh-t eating grin on my face and it does.  And that's what motorcycling is all about.