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SWEET!!!! DAMMIT!!!!

badwrenchbadwrench Member Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2008 in General Discussion
December 1st, it begins.

Harley WILL be selling the XR1200 stateside! Take THAT you foreign pig-dogs!

750 available for pre-sale 12/1 to 12/15

Now for the dammit . . .

I can't afford one. No way in hell. I don't even think Santa could pull this one off for me, and I have been ever so good[V]. Maybe I could sneak a test ride, though[}:)]

Never "outgrew" my Sportster, still the best motorcycle I have ever owned. Would love to have another, too. Maybe I could find a basket Ironhead XLCH or XLCR, or even an XR1000[}:)] Would be a fun project[:D]

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  • MFinnMFinn Member Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get a HONDA [:D]
  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886
    edited November -1
    Harley is selling this stateside? Dont they always sell stateside? I'm lost, obviously.
  • cmd66cmd66 Member Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Man that's a sweet sportster Hobby. How much ya reckon ya got tied up in that?
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A real biker wouldn't ride a chick bike
  • LOKO383LOKO383 Member Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HobbyGuy
    I understand your passion for the Harley Davidson Sportster. I've owned five and still have my "baby." This one is my seventeenth Harley (forth rebuilt from a basket case, thirteen off the showroom floor). [^]

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    Jim


    love that Corbin "gunfighter" seat Jim..had one just like it on my Sportster in 89..nice bike..Loko [8D]
  • MMOMEQ-55MMOMEQ-55 Member Posts: 13,134
    edited November -1
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    Here is a couple of my projects as of right now. I bought (stoled) the police bike at a police auction for 6k in 06. Very well maintained and runs like a raped ape. It has a factory fan that blows over the jugs. Thats the round chrome thing on the side of the jugs. Last years project was a 1947 knuck. Had about 12k in it when finished and sold it for 30k
  • MMOMEQ-55MMOMEQ-55 Member Posts: 13,134
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MFinn
    Get a HONDA [:D]



    "Better a sister in a wh@re house than a brother on a Honda"
  • cahascahas Member Posts: 4,064
    edited November -1
    badwrench, went to this museum this year. www.wheelsthroughtime.com
    Bought 3 chances on the 1940 knucklehead bobber. Some lucky guy from S.C. got it, sweet ride.
  • hawkeye6020hawkeye6020 Member Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    A real biker wouldn't ride a chick bike


    A real biker wouldn't say that
  • MFinnMFinn Member Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let me state it again, get a HONDA!! 1/2 price, 10 X better [^]
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll take my Panhead any day.

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    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
  • Rebel_JamesRebel_James Member Posts: 4,746
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    A real biker wouldn't ride a chick bike


    That just shows you don't know much about Harleys. The Sportster was built as Harleys 'Race Bike.'

    Yeah, BigTwin riders call them girls bikes, till they get outrun!


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  • SuspensionSuspension Member Posts: 4,783
    edited November -1
    Heard that at a shop the other night, they had three guys there wanting on a wait list. The shop seemed pretty dumb founded over the entire ordeal.
    I'll stick with my roadglide.
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    Not a very good pic, but here's my ol 75' XLCH, that I bought as a rolling
    basket case and restored/customized..

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  • cattle buyercattle buyer Member Posts: 532 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You folks are taking me back to the GO FAST early 80's, Bought a 1982 anniversary edition sportster roadster, chromed out S &S carb 4k miles from my bank in Tallahassee FL for 2500 and they financed it! [8D]( some fellow went thru a nasty divorce dropped it off at the bank and went to work in Alaska) I had never owned a Harley just dirt bikes but I rode it like a dirt bike, burned a hole in my right calf that liked to have never healed,scar to this day. Fun city and the women loved it ( kick start vib)![}:)] Traded it off for a J3 piper cub project! [^]
  • sheepdipsheepdip Member Posts: 3,124
    edited November -1
    83 XKX-61 last of the Iron head Sportsters.
    Bought it new for $4000.00, over 100,00 touring miles, heads have never been off.
    Still have it and it's still running strong.

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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have a trunk added to it but this is my current ride.

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    But would love to have that new XR1200. Normally that model came out as a 883 the 1st think you would do is have it bored for 1200. I really like the look of this model.
  • MMOMEQ-55MMOMEQ-55 Member Posts: 13,134
    edited November -1
    Go to bike week Daytona. Guy on crotch rocket, OK girl. Fat ole man on a tricked out Harley, Sweet hard body on the pea pad,Blonde hair Blue eyes. See it happen every year. OK so the crotch rockets can out run my stroker. Who cares. I am crusing in style with the hardbody. Life is good.
  • gbeggrowgbeggrow Member Posts: 5,499
    edited November -1
    [;)]

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=311179

    quote:Originally posted by badwrench
    December 1st, it begins.

    Harley WILL be selling the XR1200 stateside! Take THAT you foreign pig-dogs!

    750 available for pre-sale 12/1 to 12/15

    Now for the dammit . . .

    I can't afford one. No way in hell. I don't even think Santa could pull this one off for me, and I have been ever so good[V]. Maybe I could sneak a test ride, though[}:)]

    Never "outgrew" my Sportster, still the best motorcycle I have ever owned. Would love to have another, too. Maybe I could find a basket Ironhead XLCH or XLCR, or even an XR1000[}:)] Would be a fun project[:D]
  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RugerNiner
    I'll take my Panhead any day.

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    not much into motorcycles but do like the looks of yours rugerniner.
    may have to get one someday.

    snowmobiles are my thing.......crack the throttle on a 150 hp sled skis come off the ground and your hauling * very very quickly.[:D]

    hope you guy don't mind a pic of a sled.
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  • scrumpyjackscrumpyjack Member Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought my first Harley as a basket case in boxes for $3000. 1981 FXB Sturgis. All the parts were there amazingly and the old shovel even ran. Sold it two months later for $4500, packed back up in the same boxes. Two weeks after I sold it we made a road trip to Vegas for a bomb comp and stopped in at Flagstaff HD. They hade one fully restored, complete with leather saddlebags on the floor for $18500.[:0] Boy was I pissed.

    Took advantage of the duty free and bought a 1993 Fatboy when I came back from overseas. Sold it six months later.
  • slackmasonslackmason Member Posts: 618 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    man, harleys sound nice, but, they will leak all over your drive way.
    and you gotta repair something. well, there is where your $$$ went.

    this is the only vehicle i have owned for the past 4 years. 2000 honda shadow A.C.E.

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  • tneff1969tneff1969 Member Posts: 6,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
  • slackmasonslackmason Member Posts: 618 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:
    Funny, though, mine has never leaked a drop. I'm a trained Harley mechanic and have worked on mine since I bought it in '98.

    That's a nice ACE. Actually looked into one before I bought my Sporty.


    ahh, most owners are not trained harley mechanics, but,with the cost of up keep on one, you either should be or are rich enough to keep bringing it to the dealer.

    truth be told, i wish my shadow sounded that good! and had a little more "under the seat" to hall my 215Lb butt around haha.

    that pic was taken the day i brought her home. she's got a couple scars, from one crash, but she still cleans up nice. since then ive added saddle bags a sissy bar, and a bell, to keep the gremlins away
  • MMOMEQ-55MMOMEQ-55 Member Posts: 13,134
    edited November -1
    The thing with a Harley is that anyone can wrench on them. Jap bikes you need an engineering degree to do so. Always keep my scooter in the family room when not riding. No leeks.
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ok i won't say they are chick bikes, but they are for the more "petite" male, i look like a circus clown riding a mini on one, and feel twice a dumb
  • MadmanMadman Member Posts: 601 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Badwrench;
    Miss my '57 and '59 XLCH sporties I built from the ground up in '72 and '77. Both full customs, sold the '57 for one house and the '59 22 years ago for my present house down payment. Runnin a '77 Superglide now, but won't see the wind till they give me my two new stainless steel hips after the first...but I have to keep that quiet as the surgeon said no scooter ridin period.
    Hey Rugerniner, nice Pan ! What year? lookin for a '52 to do a full blown custom...
    Keep it in the wind, keep your powder dry and let's take this country back!

    Paul
    Mountain Magic Gunsmithing
  • MMOMEQ-55MMOMEQ-55 Member Posts: 13,134
    edited November -1
    1968 model Sporty

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  • mondmond Member Posts: 6,458
    edited November -1
    Nice to look at , them Harleys & they say if ya wanna ride comfertable across the US use a Harley, But..
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    & if ya wanna get back, use a Honda or Suzuki !![:D]
  • oldnbaldoldnbald Member Posts: 3,578
    edited November -1
    I personally like Harleys. My dad rode them as I was growing up. However, as a joke, I repeat what one guy told me ...."A Harley is a $10,000 bike with a $25,000 name". As I said, I don't agree with that.
  • kyplumberkyplumber Member Posts: 11,111
    edited November -1
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Madman
    Badwrench;
    Hey Rugerniner, nice Pan ! What year? lookin for a '52 to do a full blown custom...
    Keep it in the wind, keep your powder dry and let's take this country back!

    Paul
    Mountain Magic Gunsmithing

    Mine is a 56 Pan with a Straight Leg frame, AEE header covers, * custom pipes.

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    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
  • KevinMTKevinMT Member Posts: 271 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was delivering some cattle feed to an old rancher back up in the middle of nowhere once and he asked me if i liked to ride bikes. I told him that i did and at that time i had a couple. Took me over to his bunkhouse and there was a very nice 1916 excelcior(sp)- henderson. it looked like you could of put some gas in it and drive off.
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