Harley-Davidson turns motorcycling on its head !

A rider I met on this forum ( MichaelD) came up this July with 2 of his sons , all on older bikes , oldest was on a Ducati 750 ex-racer that dad had broke belt on during a race .... after the fix this bike was running excellent .... made it from upstate NY all the way to far tip of Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island and back quickly .... I met them when they needed the tool to fix Commando exhaust nut that had worked loose .... while with me Commando centre stand came off too , not sure how that was addressed but they made the ride .... I regularly ride with a friend who rides a Harley V-Rod he has no issues staying with a group of Ducs along the secondary roads around here ...
Craig

Vey few people race Ducatis in Australia. I saw a modern air-cooled one going extremely well in a race against four cylinder bikes, a while back. But they are very rare. To my mind, they are the only real motorcycle left in production these days. Harley V-rods are obviously designed to appeal to kids who were brought up playing with toys which can be transformed by clicking them into different variations. It is like having big tail-fins on 1960s Chevrolets.

This fellow with v-rod is no silver spooner ...he retired helicopter pilot ... he got funds for his training from insurance after nice lady ruined his knee in intersection , she in car , he on dual sport .... not sure what you mean regarding v-rod but 125hp vtwin is hard to argue with when ridden by expert , which he is ....

Hmmm, only downside to the road king is the circa 830lbs+ !

It caught me out yesterday when manoeuvring at low speed, couldn’t quite hold it up, and had to ‘lower it’ into a semi controlled drop!

It came to a rest, completely unscathed, on its crash bars (great design there).

But then it took two of us to (only just) lift it up. Had I been alone, I’d have had zero chance of doing that.

Fast Eddie said:

Hmmm, only downside to the road king is the circa 830lbs+ !

It caught me out yesterday when manoeuvring at low speed, couldn’t quite hold it up, and had to ‘lower it’ into a semi controlled drop!

It came to a rest, completely unscathed, on its crash bars (great design there).

But then it took two of us to (only just) lift it up. Had I been alone, I’d have had zero chance of doing that.

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Prince Edward of Fastness, here's a little advise for the next time it happens. The crash bars are nice, they make it a lot easier to roll back upright. If the guy in the video left that thing sitting on the kick stand, in the grass, for more than 5 minutes, he'd be picking it up from the other side. I guess that will be on his next video.

Well, thanks for that (kinda)!

I knew there was a technique to this, I even said it to my mate as we struggled with the bloody thing!

I guess that all I can say is that our grunting efforts prove this guy right !!

Fast Eddie said:

Hmmm, only downside to the road king is the circa 830lbs+ !

It caught me out yesterday when manoeuvring at low speed, couldn’t quite hold it up, and had to ‘lower it’ into a semi controlled drop!

It came to a rest, completely unscathed, on its crash bars (great design there).

But then it took two of us to (only just) lift it up. Had I been alone, I’d have had zero chance of doing that.

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When I was a kid, we did not have freeways in Australia. So motorcycles were ridden on much less boring roads. The British bikes were OK, but they usually required a motor rebuild after about 25,000 miles. I had a Canadian friend who bought a 1962 Duoglide which still great after 50,000 miles. If I wanted a big bike to go cruising, I would probably buy a better car.