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  • Everytime I start looking at Harleys I think to myself "Have you put a bit of weight on recently?"

  • Yes I have!!
    Actually the sportster (the older less plastic ones) are quite a good ride- I was shocked how ok it was. It’s fairly similar to my old Hinckley bonnie, good balance, steers ok and svelteish. It’s also quite comfy even at six foot plus and with all the added BMI recently , 260 miles in a day last week was fine.

    However with the bigger bikes I’d probably only countenance a road king (basically an unfaired electraglide style) , I can’t be doing with a lot of their stuff and that probably wouldn’t handle as well.

  • Fuck you.

  • I've sort of run the gamut of desperately wanting a café racer a few years ago to where I am now which is desperately wanting a HD...

    The idea of a café racer doesn't appeal to me much at all any more although I would quite like a retro styled naked/ muscle bike type of thing... I have been thinking about a Ducati GT1000 (probably perfect other than not terribly available in Ireland) or Kawasaki W800 (which I worry might feel a bit lacklustre)...

    On the other hand I suspect my next bike purchase will be an Evo engined HD, probably an earlier carbed one so 1984-1994 and probably an Electra Glide or Dyna...

    I'm torn between the aesthetic of Electra Glide with no bags and wide bars, kind of a backdate to earlier Electra Glide style or else something very skinny with ape hangers and a sissy bar...

  • The belly needs something to rest on...

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