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Whats the Ironhead top speed?

mine is a 75´, witch is the top speed of this bike supposed to be?




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Well with my 81 I have reached about 105mph and still had some throttle left just ran out of nerve
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105 mph!! wooow , thats about 168 Kmph... really fast for our vintage bikes.

please tell me , whats the ROAD/JOURNEY SPEED , .. withc is the limit for the bike to keep going for lots and lots of miles at the same speed?
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I've been over a hundred on my '77 and that scared the shit outta me seeing how it is a chopper and kinda hard to control at that speed. Don't plan on doing it again cause it made me drink way too much afterwards just to calm down.
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Got my '75 up to one hundred going to the beach. The thing had throttle left, but the front was getting real unstable. Won't do that again.
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112 mph (180.0 km/h)

According to: http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/har...tster_1975.php
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12 Mph !!
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110 MPH. Still more left in the bike, but not in me. I get scrared after 90 MPH.
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Dunno, speedo not workey
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It's really hard to be sure how fast your ACTUALLY going. If you go by your speedo you have to figure it's going to be incorrect. We have a lot of loooong straight roads in Australia. Best I ever saw on a "stock" IH (74 XL1000) was 112. Mate on a Honda claimed we were going 114, Triumph Bonneville topped out at 110, Norton guy claimed 90 ! So .... take your pick.
But I'm pretty sure you should be able to push it to at least 110.
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