Re: Harley Davidson Dyna ride height

In your geographically limited experience, yes. But we define "tour"
differently. We consider a time zone per day an easy ride. I might leave my
East Coast home and be in Southern California, 3000 miles away, three days
later having stopped for sex along the way. You?

 

That sounds easy enough. It's a shame you guys can't ride through
several different countries in a day, then you'd realise we're not
actually geographically limited.

 

How far is it across Europe? 1000 miles? 2000? Hardly a jaunt here.

But I agree. When I wanted to cross the US as fast as possible I chose a
BMW RT and stuck to the interstate but I prefer to take 3 or 4 days to do
the 3000 miles on back roads where I can enjoy the scenery, so I usually
ride a H-D FLHTC. Mine is a 1990 model with over 150,000 miles.

My wife had one of those til I totaled it. Worst handling most treacherous
bike I've ever been on in my 50 years in the saddle. I sincerely urge you
to sell it to someone you don't like.

 

Ah, someone with a brain! We have some comparable twisties too but Europe
has (and needs) nothing like our interstates and, lucky for you, nothing
like our speed limits. Hence the best bike for you isn't the same as the
best for me. In fact, our conditions vary so much that there is no one best
bike for me. That's why I have to own four, borrow my wife's once in a
while, and but for my busted up body would have to have a Ducati and a
.......

Great bike! Just sold one myself last fall after only 15,000 miles. Age
and injuries catching up so I'm stuck with cruisers for the riding position
for the forseeable future.

 

Ya gotta have been there to understand. Most never will.

 

Well for chrissake Guig, you'd have been at least as uncomfortable on any
dirt bike no matter the brand.

 

My RZ-350 was an all time favorite ... IF. I've travelled by car and
motorhome. Compared to traveling by motorcyle both are like watching a
travel-log on TV. Really!

 

No, what our government did was think you could take x number of medium
sized businesses, combine them into one huge business, stick 3 or 4 new
layers of management at the top and nationalise the whole thing, so that
there was no incentive or even requirement to be profitable and have a
competitive business.

Possibly, but to a large extent the British car industry tore itself apart.
Many of the companies that formed British Leyland had been in direct
competition with each other and continued to be after they merged - the
Triumph Spitfire and the MG Midget went head to head, for example, as did
the Austin Allegro and the Morris Ital.

Industrial relations were bad, build quality was low, the industry was
rapidly turning into its own tombstone ... to tax the Japanese for building
reliable cars that people wanted to buy would have been a little curlish.

Of course, if British Leyland had worked and had made good cars and had
beaten the Japs at their own game then they might now be in the situation
that Ford and GM find themselves in, where they're crippled by pension and
healthcare responsibilities and are, one way or another, going to hit your
government for seriously big bucks in the fairly near future.

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Your lack of interest has kept you ignorant. Sportsters are essentially
dirt bikes and have different frames and motors than full size H-Ds.
Tourers have different frames than cruisers making them more suitable for
long hours in the saddle. The steering pivot is actually forward of the
forks. This allows more vertical forks to provide quick steering at
parking-lot speeds but retains higher speed stability.

 

I call bullshit. England is an island....and you know what we say about
riding a scooter on an island...

 

I ve done the same dozens of times on H-Ds and BMW RTs - all in the US and
Canada. I prefer the H-D because the BM doesn't tolerate a weeks luggage
and bad weather gear as well. It handles better than the H-D until you load
it up similarly then the difference mostly disappears. The H-Ds floorboards
(vs pegs) and big seat allow one to move around an change position more,
yielding more comfort for a long haul and the H-Ds weather protection is a
tad better. Not important in Europe, but H-D has alot more dealers here so,
even tho both are utterly reliable, there's a bit more peace of mind on a
Harley. OTOH a H-D bagger begins to complain at much over 70MPH for long
stretches and wear me out whilst the RT would run 100 tirelessly forever.
And H-D has the only reliable stand.

 

Is it?

Well that does explain the Severn bridge, I suppose.

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Ah! the great American sense of geography!

England is *not* an island. Try looking at a map and see if you can work
out why......

Dave

 

Wish I'd had the luxury of cruising at 70 on the trip I did. I was usually
at 85 - 100mph keeping up with the rest of the crew. I was on a Dyna
convertable so the peg position was more conventional European than feet
forward. I liked the convertable because it was lighter round the front
than a full dresser, which also gave it 1" more ground clearance.

 

LOL. I'll tell unless you buy the beer.

 

<raises hand> I told him.

 

Whinging Courier said...

Merkins make me laugh all the time. It's the repression they live under,
yet they take all the "Land of freedom" bullshit from their politicians
and believe it.

I think it's funny that all they can citicise is our dental system and
the fact they were too chicken to join in WW2 until they had their arses
right royally kicked by the Japs at Pearl Harbour.

I saw more Billy-Bob teeth in the 2 years I was working in USA than I've
seen in the rest of my life, and their own record as far as winning wars
alone isn't exactly great now, is it? Think Vietnam, Iraq etc.

 

I like that. Is it still a runner?

 

Tony D said...

5500 miles a year, that's *really* heavy mileage. You must have gone to
the shops a hell of a lot of times.

 

tallbloke said...

I've ridden rubber mounted ones, they still vibrate worse than any Jap
or European bike I've ever ridden, and in this job I get to ride all the
latest models as they arrive at the dealers.