WTF? Am I missing something here?

[Johnzee1]

a harley with 100 miles on it aint new. mine had 2 on it when i bought it.

[FargingBastage]

Originally Posted by Kev M

I'm saying I looked at some LATE-MODEL (2000+) solidmounts over the weekend and I don't agree with your assessment that the rubbermounts are somehow of lower quality in any way.

I was speaking specifically about the Nightster. I own a 2004 XLC as well, and it is simply a better built machine IMO and I think a lot of the earlier bikes were as well. It's got great styling, but I think you are really buying an unfinished bobber project.

[Moved On / My Own Choice]

Originally Posted by FargingBastage

I was speaking specifically about the Nightster. I own a 2004 XLC as well, and it is simply a better built machine IMO and I think a lot of the earlier bikes were as well. It's got great styling, but I think you are really buying an unfinished bobber project.

You keep saying "Better Built"

The quality of the parts are the same - hell, MOST of the parts ARE the same.

The quality of the labor should be the same.

But maybe, you MEAN "better conceived" or "better executed" or really, a better combination of parts/design....

[Bob F]

the dealer installing it at 90$ an hour

My HD dealer charges $45/hour, Highland HD in Somerset PA, great dealer.

scrape the ground on right turns

13½" shocks will help. Low scoots scrape. My 2¢.

[grafpak]

100miles/160klm's over here that would be a dealer demo bike!!

[CompanyXPaladin]

For what its worth, I feel that my '07 Nightster is every bit as solid and well built as my '04 Dyna was. Sure, its not as smooth, heavy, or comfortable, but its definitely solid. It sure feels more solid than my '81 Honda did - and that bike you could drop from some height, pick it up, and keep riding it (literally. Long story, not worth telling.).

Also, my bike was considered "Used" with 200 miles on it.

[FargingBastage]

Originally Posted by V-XL

my bike had 13 miles on it when i got it. maybe someone did take it home and didn't like it. 100 miles is nothing unless he beat the hell out of it so at least you got the air cleaner out of it (hopefully it is the newest version so you dont get the holes in it)

It was at a 100 miles when I changed the pipes, there was 7 miles on it when I bought it.

[fingerpie]

Originally Posted by CompanyXPaladin

could drop from some height, pick it up, and keep riding it (literally. Long story, not worth telling.)

Actually I think that would be very much worth telling. Oh please please please

[CompanyXPaladin]

Originally Posted by fingerpie

Actually I think that would be very much worth telling. Oh please please please

Hahaha. Well, if you're sure...

This particular story, as so many of the worst do, begins with a dark and stormy night. I live in Lompoc, CA. I was 17 at the time, and I had been visiting friends in Ventura (Approx. 80 miles away). I left from Ventura around midnight, and on the way back it started raining. If I remember right, this was the storm that washed out half the highway between Lompoc and Santa Barbara, killed a police officer or two, and dumped mud on half of Gaviota. Suffice to say it was very very rainy. Another friend of mine invited me to visit him in Santa Barbara on my way back from Ventura and I needed to stop in Santa Barbara to refuel.. my CB750 only got about 30-35 MPG. Anyway, cutting out some unrelated stuff, I was on my way through Santa Barbara, going about 40 MPH. Going around a lazy left turn, a car was turning onto my street from a cross-street, and did not see me coming around this turn. He got on the street directly in front of me - maybe 10 yards in front of me, and accelerates very slowly. As closely as I could figure at the time at my present speed I would have hit him while he was going approx. 10 mph. So I, being the genius 17 year old that I was, instead of passing him in the empty oncoming traffic lane, I hit my rear brake. I don't know if I stomped on it too hard because I was cold, wet, and tired, or if the wheel locked up because it was wet, but in any case, the wheel locked up, and the bike started sliding. I really thought I was going to save it, but just barely ran out of space. The bike hit the low curb going almost totally sideways and flung me off. I landed in a patch of dirt and grass and watched the tail lights of the car disappear off into the rain. I got up, and found the 750 at the bottom of one of Santa Barbara's drainage ditches, which was already showing a few inches of water in it. Thats somewhere in the vicinity of a 10-12 foot drop, 15-20 feet away from the road. I figured nothing hurt too much (maybe because I was fast becoming a meat Popsicle), so I picked the bike up and gave it a quick once over. Dent in the gas tank, some minor cosmetic damage, nothing major. Straddled the bike, and three desperate tries of the electric starter later, the bike roared to life. Found a way out of the drainage ditch, and the bike carried me home.

Okay, so maybe its just a really long-winded short story. But hey - you asked.

[oldjarhead]

Originally Posted by Johnzee1

a harley with 100 miles on it aint new. mine had 2 on it when i bought it.

Mine had 120 miles on it, and was sold as the demo it was. Saved a few bucks and got hyw bars for the effort.