Frame mount vs Rubber mount engines

[XLXR]

Originally Posted by MCCoy

Sounds expensive? Can they be found at ricor.com ?

http://store.ricorshocks.com/harley_davidson_s/27.htm

Here is their website. Be sure to read "7 Pages of Suspension" in the suspension sticky index section. Lots more info there. Really good suspension is never cheap.

While thinking about original title of this thread, frame mount to rubber mount engines, it seems to me it should be more like frame mount, rubber mount, FI, CAN electronics, and now cartridge suspension.

[MCCoy]

Originally Posted by XLXR

http://store.ricorshocks.com/harley_davidson_s/27.htm

Here is their website. Be sure to read "7 Pages of Suspension" in the suspension sticky index section. Lots more info there. Really good suspension is never cheap.

While thinking about original title of this thread, frame mount to rubber mount engines, it seems to me it should be more like frame mount, rubber mount, FI, CAN electronics, and now cartridge suspension.

Thanks...

[FrameMount1200]

Originally Posted by MCCoy

I have always wondered what people thought about this. Did you buy a rubber mount because that is how the Sportster is currently made? Or, were you out to get a frame mounted motor Sporty because that is what you wanted?

Once I determined my budget, I had to decide on frame mount, rubber mount, carbureted or EFI.

I settled on a carbureted frame mount 2003 fully stock except for pipes 1200c, and I really made the right choice for myself. I've had the bike for two months and 2,200 miles now and it's hard for me to understand what people have been saying about vibration. I feel it in the bars a little and the mirrors are blurry, but that's it. It's not like it's painful or distracting. I don't feel it through the seat or foot pegs. Some people make it out to be something awful and I just don't get it. It doesn't vibrate any more than the bikes I've owned in the past which have been metric bikes from the 70's and an 83 BMW R100.

I'm also really happy I got a carb. I see too many threads here by people with tuning issues. I'm really glad i can just tune mine with a screwdriver. I'm not experiencing any downsides to the carb.

I suspect if I went to a rubber mount now, it would feel wrong, numbed down.

[84rzv500r]

Stick the XR1200X USD front end on with solid mount bars and all the harmonics and vibrations GO AWAY

Crystal clear mirrors...
no numb hands...
front axle no longer a blur...
crisp and responsive neural steering with no tendency to fall in and it stays where you put it...
great feedback in the bars... no more being disconnected from what the front end is doing...

[Crusty]

The USD forks from a '16 + up Roadster work well, too.

[Mike1nw]

I bought my 07 in 2020 because it was reasonably priced, and local to me
It just happens to be rubber mounted.
And I like the F.I.
And it's a pretty metallic blue color.
And only 10,000 miles!
The rubber mounted engine is nice, but that has to be the goofiest exhaust system imaginable. And it kills the lovely potato-potato cadence too.
I had a 79 Shovelhead kick start years ago. The only thing that didn't cause me grief was the carburetor. Go figure....
My F.I. Sportster fires with a few revs EVERY TIME 😀

[Nibelungen]

Had both
Rode both...
85k kms the former rigid
91k kms the latter rubber EFI
Between them...
day and night...
the EFI has 16 years of technology on her behalf
I love both

[Steve9]

Had a '13 with "built" motor-totaled in '15

Gots an '03 now-love the lighter weight, loved the '13 too