Hi all,
Newbie here so please be gentle with me!
After over 20 years' riding bikes I rode my 1st Harley last wednesday - Mrs Gromit and I decided, seeing a sit was my birthday, to rent a bike for the day and took an FXDL for 24 hours from Warr's in London. Wasn't keen at first but, on remembering the advice of a Fat Boy-owning friend, started to ride the bike how it wanted to be ridden and we got along fine from then on. In fact I LOVED it!! 24 hours later the bike had to go back but Warr's went on to lend us an FXDX to play on for the rest of the day - really great fun, especially with the louder pipes
Now to a quick ques if I may; I really love the Sportster look but have not ridden one yet. A 1200S would be better for me in terms of insurance because the Twin Cams are very expensive, especially where I live in London. Any advice anyone can give me would be most gratefully received - what are they like to own? I was v impressed with the smoothness of the Dyna's but no doubt the 1200 would be much more buzzy? Oh, plus the Sportsters are over 3000GBP (about 4500 $US) cheaper than the big boys which kinda sways things!
Many thanks for any input - looking forward to getting the bike and spending plenty of time both on it and on this excellent forum
Richard.
Newbie here so please be gentle with me!
After over 20 years' riding bikes I rode my 1st Harley last wednesday - Mrs Gromit and I decided, seeing a sit was my birthday, to rent a bike for the day and took an FXDL for 24 hours from Warr's in London. Wasn't keen at first but, on remembering the advice of a Fat Boy-owning friend, started to ride the bike how it wanted to be ridden and we got along fine from then on. In fact I LOVED it!! 24 hours later the bike had to go back but Warr's went on to lend us an FXDX to play on for the rest of the day - really great fun, especially with the louder pipes
Now to a quick ques if I may; I really love the Sportster look but have not ridden one yet. A 1200S would be better for me in terms of insurance because the Twin Cams are very expensive, especially where I live in London. Any advice anyone can give me would be most gratefully received - what are they like to own? I was v impressed with the smoothness of the Dyna's but no doubt the 1200 would be much more buzzy? Oh, plus the Sportsters are over 3000GBP (about 4500 $US) cheaper than the big boys which kinda sways things!
Many thanks for any input - looking forward to getting the bike and spending plenty of time both on it and on this excellent forum
Richard.