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19th November 2015
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XL FORUM LIFE MEMBER
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,226 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1200 R Sportster/Buell Year: 2006
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Originally Posted by MCCoy
Sounds expensive? Can they be found at ricor.com ?
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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.
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Last edited by XLXR; 19th November 2015 at 07:09..
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19th November 2015
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Chief Know It All
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: SoCal
Posts: 422 Sportster/Buell Model: XLH1200 Sportster/Buell Year: 1997
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Quote:
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.
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22nd May 2023
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Biker
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Join Date: Mar 2023
Posts: 47 Sportster/Buell Model: xl1200c Sportster/Buell Year: 2003
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Quote:
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?
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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.
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23rd May 2023
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: On a big rock in the Florida Straights
Posts: 593 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 1200 S....X Sportster/Buell Year: 1999 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XR-1000 RX Sportster/Buell Year #2: 83 Other Motorcycle Model: SOLD - RZV500R/R1 hybrid Other Motorcycle Year: 1984
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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...
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1999 XL 1200 Sport RX, SE 7500 ignition, SE air filter, DynoJet, K&N, Cone Engineering 2:1 pipe, Storz Steering damper, with 2012 XR1200X perf forks, 3.5 x18" wheels front and rear, Galfer stainless lines, XR1200 4 piston front calipers, 18" Dunlop D404 130/70 and Dunlop trailmax mission 140/80-18 rear XR1200X perf shocks, 19/48 530 chain conversion, Dart Flyscreen, Bosch 480ah LiFePO4
1983 XR-1000S to XR-1000RX Project Build Thread
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24th May 2023
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Cheviot, OH
Posts: 2,306 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 1200 CX Sportster/Buell Year: 2016 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XLH 1000 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1978 Other Motorcycle Model: XL 1200 Cussed'em Other Motorcycle Year: 2006
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The USD forks from a '16 + up Roadster work well, too.
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4th June 2023
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: May 2020
Location: Lower AL
Posts: 246 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883 Sportster/Buell Year: 2007 Other Motorcycle Model: Suzook Burgman 400/ 2008
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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 😀
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4th June 2023
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Emilia, Italy
Posts: 2,995 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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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
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5th June 2023
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Loxahatchee, FL (S. FL)
Posts: 2,216 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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Had a '13 with "built" motor-totaled in '15
Gots an '03 now-love the lighter weight, loved the '13 too
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