HD 883 Iron - The Nightster Mini-Me

[chornbe]

If I ever get rich enough to burn tires like that and just not give a damn, can someone come to my house and hit me?

Please?

(ps... I don't need to work that hard to spin the rear tire on either of my Harleys... I'm just saying)

[Playinthestreet]

The more I see that bike the more I think I need to own one...

This one would spin it up just like the video..

[st ryder]

Yeah, too bad this one is Euro only.

Yes, that's one sharp looking Buell.    

[1KPerDay]

 

Hilarious... crappy replica Hog won't even pull a burnout in 4th.  

[DogBoy]

Doing my part to get this thread to page five:

[atadaskew]

  

found it at a blog from a helmet manufacturer...http://www.biltwellinc.com/index.php



High top Vans? Check.
3/4 Helmet? Check.
Flannel? Check.
Machine Shop? Check.
Hot girl with bangs? Check.
Pit Bull? Check.
"Rat" Rod? Check.
Imitation Chopper Dave's sticker on helmet? Check.
I'm surprised it didn't have a guy doing a kick flip over it.

I'm not a hater, I like the bike. Cheaper and blacker the better. hell, it'll probably sell some helmets for us. I just wish the Factory would make the picks and shovels and let the riders dig for gold. Try to shape a scene and you are sure to gay it up, HD. Whatever.

Hey, just watched it and I think it's cool!  Guess what? It's called marketing.  They're fitting it to a life style that lots of people imagine they're living.  I know lots of people in the Venice/Santa Monica area that look like (or want to look like) they fit into that image.  At least there are no beanie helmets.
What do you want Harley to do?  Have a bunch of dorky middle age guys wearing cordura and hi-viz vests ride to a library?...

Compare this vid to what the various Japanese cruiser mfgs are offering on their sites (if any).  Best they can do is show a fat middle age man wearing a beanie helmet (not even 3/4   !  ) with a bleach blonde 20 year old super hot girl on the back.  Like that is ever gonna happen on a Kawi cruiser!
Or it will be a bunch of doods cruising the mean streets trying to replicate the Harley scene exactly with the big failing of not hooking up with chicks.  Talk about gaying it up...

Next complaint.  How dare mfgs show video of the sport bikes on race tracks with the riders in full leathers! What a cliche!

[st ryder]

Doing my part to get this thread to page five:

Nice bike, but it's no C50.

[staedtler]

Hey, just watched it and I think it's cool!  Guess what? It's called marketing.  They're fitting it to a life style that lots of people imagine they're living.  I know lots of people in the Venice/Santa Monica area that look like (or want to look like) they fit into that image.  At least there are no beanie helmets.
What do you want Harley to do?  Have a bunch of dorky middle age guys wearing cordura and hi-viz vests ride to a library?...

Compare this vid to what the various Japanese cruiser mfgs are offering on their sites (if any).  Best they can do is show a fat middle age man wearing a beanie helmet (not even 3/4   !  ) with a bleach blonde 20 year old super hot girl on the back.  Like that is ever gonna happen on a Kawi cruiser!
Or it will be a bunch of doods cruising the mean streets trying to replicate the Harley scene exactly with the big failing of not hooking up with chicks.  Talk about gaying it up...

Next complaint.  How dare mfgs show video of the sport bikes on race tracks with the riders in full leathers! What a cliche!

dude, i didn't wrote that,... it was at that blog (i posted the link above the vid)

[atadaskew]

dude, i didn't wrote that,... it was at that blog (i posted the link above the vid)

dooood!  missed that you posted it from the blog.
 
 

[1KPerDay]

Nice bike, but it's no C50.

[CosmicGS]

When did Cosmic GS get a XL1200R?  

Several years ago!!!!  Here they are both together:

[CosmicGS]

The more I see that bike the more I think I need to own one...

This one would spin it up just like the video..

And break your leg kicking starting it!

[Playinthestreet]

And break your leg kicking starting it!

You ain't shittin, it had a stroker kit in it.

[CosmicGS]

That's a real nice Sportster.    

I got confused with the Harley letters for a minute, I thought you had gotten one of the new XR1200R's.  

XR1200 - cool bike. I wanted one until I saw one in person at a recent 'cycle show. It just did not do it for me. I'll stick with my XL1200R. I sat on the XR and it felt like it'd be a real fun bike to ride. But, the "x" factor was missing for me. Conversely, I sat on a Ducati 1100S Multistrada all decked out with touring accessories (handguards, 3 cases, etc) and it DID have the "x" factor and I really wanted one.

[chornbe]

XR1200 - cool bike. I wanted one until I saw one in person at a recent 'cycle show. It just did not do it for me. I'll stick with my XL1200R. I sat on the XR and it felt like it'd be a real fun bike to ride. But, the "x" factor was missing for me. Conversely, I sat on a Ducati 1100S Multistrada all decked out with touring accessories (handguards, 3 cases, etc) and it DID have the "x" factor and I really wanted one.

I hear you. I have Ulie-XT lust right now, but no gots da cash

[weidauer]

Hey, just watched it and I think it's cool!  Guess what? It's called marketing.  

As a marketer by profession (if there is such a thing), what I want to know is if this video can make black horn-rimmed Buddy Holly glasses cool again. The four-eyed masses want to know.

[Johnny Monsoon]

As a marketer by profession (if there is such a thing), what I want to know is if this video can make black horn-rimmed Buddy Holly glasses cool again. The four-eyed masses want to know.

Dude, they've always been cool.

[weidauer]

Dude, they've always been cool.

My wife will be thrilled to know that I'm cool.  

[JamesG]

It has style, and it's $2000 less than a Nightster.  I think they'll sell a butt load of them.  

Yup. Esp. with the 100% buy back/up program HD is doing. A very clever "entry level" strategy.

I've been thinking of hacking a 1200 Nightster when I get back from A-stan.  I'll be able to tote the baby and/or gear around and it will have all of the coolness of a slammed Harley without the ground clearance drawbacks.

[Tar Snake]

OK, just made my way through all 5 pages of this Nighttrain wreck of a thread and I'm left with the same opinion of the bike as when it started.

 :inlove:It's great looking, I'd fill in the scoop in the seat, level it from the hump in the back to the gas tank and hopefully then fit on the thing, get longer shocks, enjoy leisurely backroad romps since I'm not terribly fast anymore anyway.

I think it will sell, I see a lot of Nightsters running around town.