Thread: New Harley or stick with the old?

The dealership i went to had the 2016 Road Glide, pretty much all blacked out. Unfortunately a little out of my budget. Think i'm going the FXR route...hopefully get a late model low mileage one for less than half the price of the new Road Glide. The new Road Glide did look real nice, it was similar to this...

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Motorcycles, any kind, are not what they used to be. I wave at anyone on a motorcycle and don't care what kind of ride it is. If they care, that's their problem. Occasionally, I even wave at scooters just to keep them confused.

Back when I got my driver's license and my first bike (1969 and a Honda 90) when I'd ride from my hometown to another city; EVERY BIKER WAVED.

Since I've put about 1k miles on my retirement present to my self (1997 HD Heritage Softail), I've found that 90+% of the HD riders wave back but only about 10% of those riding the Japanese bikes will even raise a hand off of the handlebar.

To the best of my knowledge I've yet to run onto a Norton/BMW etc.

Anyway I do find that what used to be a Comradeship regardless of what you rode has either been secularized or just simply ignored with the exception of some.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

...Anyway I do find that what used to be a Comradeship regardless of what you rode has either been secularized or just simply ignored with the exception of some.

I don't feel bad if I'm clutching and let go with a nod of the helmet. Sometimes social convention loses out to safety. I am still baffled by those who are defined by external features like the brand of cycle, style of cycle, gear or no-gear, helmet or not. Human behavior is a fascinating study.

I have rider friends that live down Prosser way. I'll stay in touch.

I'm relatively anti-social, especially with strangers across a median, so even if I ever do get a Harley the odds are low that I will wave. Honestly, I used to try to comply with that convention on the road but I got tired of the frequency.

I've even waved at mopeds! But just a half wave, I have been riding for 45 years and in that time I've rode with every kind of bike out there, I don't care as long as it's a bike and your out in the wind and you don't preach to me about yours being better than mine. I a knowledge that some bikes are better built for the road than my HD,s but leave mine alone, or I,ll just blow you away out there and leave you. I,m a normally happy rider, so I wave. I,m not anti social like those curmudgeons Ron and Charlie! Tc

To quote old man Lewis,

"Get off my lawn!"

Originally Posted by Utopian

To quote old man Lewis,

"Get off my lawn!"

Maybe some day Tc and I can ride up to your place and honk BEFORE we park on your lawn!!

"Get off my lawn!"

Hey! Gotta have some fun sometimes!!!!

You're welcome on my crappy lawn any time.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

I've even waved at mopeds! But just a half wave, I have been riding for 45 years and in that time I've rode with every kind of bike out there, I don't care as long as it's a bike and your out in the wind and you don't preach to me about yours being better than mine. I a knowledge that some bikes are better built for the road than my HD,s but leave mine alone, or I,ll just blow you away out there and leave you. I,m a normally happy rider, so I wave. I,m not anti social like those curmudgeons Ron and Charlie! Tc

I recently sold my last bike (Guzzi Cali Jackal). After enough decades i finally thought i had my share and more. During these years i've had almost all kinds of bikes.

Be it here, everyday rides, or on trips to elsewhere in northern or eastern Europe we always used to wave, me and wifey. No matter who it was, everyday riders, police or army mc patrols or some outlaw Mongol/Bandidos/NBC riders. 99% of them all waved back.

I think it is a wonderful culture worth respect. No matter what you do or what bike you ride with, after all it is just about brothers and sisters of the windy and rainy roads.
With technical specs some bikes might be better than other but after all it is just you to decide if you are ok with your bike or not.

I have Old Harley's, but I ride an Roadstar, it is a little bigger, I am Big. Don't worry about my YamaHawwg when I park it where it can't be seen, the knuckle I had to keep an eye on it or lose it, caught scumbags trying to lift it twice.

Far as a new "S" model, well it looks like a progression of the Sturgis model, my fave old school.
If ya have the bucks, may as well, but Keep the Old one. Mine hangs in the shop