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25th January 2021
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Emilia, Italy
Posts: 2,641 Sportster/Buell Model: xl883n Iron (2019 engine) Sportster/Buell Year: 2017 Sportster/Buell Model #2: xl Hugger (sold) Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2001
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Originally Posted by Steve9
Too bad they didn't try and make an EU compliant XL
Oil cooling, whatever.
Ducati, Guzzi, BMW and others have managed
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holy words
i hope they will fill the gap with the VVT project that seems tailored around a Sporty...
the strategies adopted so far seems to me to bring misery at the Company...
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on the lion's corpse celebrate the dogs... still the dogs are dogs and the lion a lion...
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25th January 2021
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Land Speed Record
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: The Florida Keys
Posts: 712 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200 Sportster/Buell Year: 1995
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Look for a clean used stock 90's model, the last true Sportsters.
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25th January 2021
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 3,144 Sportster/Buell Model: none Sportster/Buell Year: 0
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I wasn't happy with the way they are price-gouging the Iron 883 this year.
Nothing in the presentation interested me, not the new paint, not the overpriced CVO bikes. Not interested in watching Aquaman present the Pan America either.
I would have been more interested to hear if they finally welded their pressed-together cranks on the big twins to prevent crank runout and put back the timken crank bearings.
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26th January 2021
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Drag Race Champion
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 351 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200c Sportster/Buell Year: 04
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Originally Posted by denguy
Look for a clean used stock 90's model, the last true Sportsters.
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If you ride Highway, you want a 2004 or later. Cruise at 75 with no bad vibes. |
26th January 2021
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Senior Chief Know It All 3rd Class
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 1,708 Sportster/Buell Model: XL Sportster/Buell Year: 1992 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1978 XLCH project Other Motorcycle Model: Sportster XLH Other Motorcycle Year: 1975
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I had a Honda Shadow VT750S, the “Honda makes a Sportster” one. To me, it was... I don’t know. Looked nice, smooth, good handling, reasonably powerful bike but somehow, something was missing. It didn’t have that “bites your leg” quality that a Sportster should have.
Had the poor ergonomics from a Sportster, though. To me, a Sportster should have some sort of sporting background, even if it’s not recent. The Scout has done something original; the Indian FTR1200 is what the XR1200 should have been, and wasn’t.
The Evo Sportster was launched with a racing series (Sport Twins), and of course it is first cousin to the XR. The V Rod has its drag series. If they are going to keep the Sportster name, they need to get out on track and race, and that either means beating Indian on the flat track, or letting the Sportster fade out with the end of the XR programme. Or, they need to go off-road Racing with the Pan Am, and link that to the Sportster name - call the enduro bike the Pan Am Sportster, something like that.
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26th January 2021
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Loxahatchee, FL (S. FL)
Posts: 1,142 Sportster/Buell Model: XLCH Sportster/Buell Year: 2003 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XL Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1981 Other Motorcycle Model: FXDC Other Motorcycle Year: 2013
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Sportster was a race machine made in the 50's
You can't copy that.
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'81 Andrews "Y" cams, K. Black 9-1 pistons
'03 1250 NRHS stage two Lightning heads, 536, mik 42
'01 Cyclone
'13 FXDC 96" stock
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