1st time on a harley

[Kev M]

Most of them are appliances, but that Super Hawk I had had some soul to it. it had 4 issues in the 55K hard miles I put on it.

1 Forks needed re-valved & sprung from the get go
2 Cam chain tensioners wore out (but super easy to replace)
3 The finish on the bolts and brackets and other little stuff doesn't hold up so well in the coast air.
4 It was a shredder of back tires. (They should probably put less twisting force in the Motor) 

It made cool noises and had a nice Bark with the Two Brothers cans on it.

Don't get me wrong, there are occasionally bikes from JapanInc. that speak to me, and many I'd happily own. It's just there are more, from other sources, that I'd prefer.

[Speedbag]

FWIW not every Harley has THAT riding position, though yes, they're pretty much all at least upright.

For the most part, yes, except for the VRSCR.....very sportbikey. 

[Kev M]

For the most part, yes, except for the VRSCR.....very sportbikey. 

Or the XR/XRX.

But I wasn't even going that far with the explanation. Most sport bike guys seems to assume that any riding position where the feet aren't below you (rearsets) are all "forwards".

However there's a HUGE difference between a position where you're sitting upright, or possibly with slight lean forward, legs going straight out in front of you BUT knees bending about 90 degrees and feet below knees AND sitting upright or leaning back (or dog even worse leaning forward) BUT legs out in front of you straight or almost so, toes pointing skyward.

I can't stand the latter, but the former is what you might find on at least half the Harleys out there, and a lot of other bikes from Wings to Bonnies and lots in between.

[Privateer]

i wouldn't mind riding this harley...

[kopfjäger]

[Bill in OKC]

[kopfjäger]

^^^ Big money right there.

[nickshelby500kr]

6 piston calipers in the front?!

[kopfjäger]

"Since 2004 Hoshikawa, 37, has run Asterisk Custom Cycles, a small three-person operation in northern Japan specializing in bare-bones Shovelhead-powered specials. When a customer came in requesting a traditionally styled Evo Sportster café racer, Hoshikawa convinced the client to step things up several notches. “I was not interesting in mimicking an old café racer,” he says, “I wanted to produce a modern café racer.”

[Curmudgeon]

Great! A 25-mile range... 

[memper]

My gawd that thing is hideous. Talk about taste judgement...
It doesn't even wink at cafe's of yore.

[kopfjäger]

It doesn't even wink at cafe's of yore.

That's most likely why Hideki made that comment.  

[kopfjäger]

[Bill in OKC]

[DucHead]

Showroom Harleys are uninteresting to me altogether, but the 'tracker examples above are really cool.  That said, I'd ride this for fun:

...although my grandfather would roll over in his grave.  He was a Henderson (he had a really nice '29 KJ) and British bike man.