Posted on 03/15/2005 1:11:57 PM PST by martin_fierro
Man killed while riding new motorcycle home from shop
A Montgomery County (TX) man is dead after crashing his brand-new motorcycle on the way home.
Police say the man was returning from the bike shop around 10:30 Monday night, when he lost control on a curve on FM 2090 near Daw Collins and slid into the path of an oncoming car. The driver was thrown into a ditch and died instantly. The other driver was not injured.
His brother had taken him to the bike shop and was following behind in a car when the wreck happened.
Police say it’s the second-time in two days Montgomery County motorcycle riders have been killed while driving their new cycles home.
What have you been riding?
LOL GREAT THANK YOU
It would make a great tag line.
Talk about different strokes. The Wide Glide is the only Dyna I halfway like. The Lowrider is far distant 2nd.
Ah, the Dyna's are a piece of cake compared to the Sporties. I'm a Sportster fan myself, I won't ride anything else anymore. However, I've ridden plenty of big twins, and they're much more forgiving than the more nimble Sportster with their greater HP to weight ratios.
I'm 5'1". You can ride just about any Harley your little heart desires. If you can ride your Sportster, everything but a touring bikes will be a piece of cake. Although the brake on the softails might be a reach.
Trailer? Trailer? I should post a picture of the sticker on my sissy bar.
"SILLY YUPPIE TRAILERS ARE FOR BOATS"
That's what everyone told me too, so after owning two Sporties, I bought a big twin. I can sum up my feelings in one simple sentence: My fourth Harley was another Sportster. You should see the look on a salesman's face when you tell him you want to trade your BT in on a Sporty.
A motorcycle is my primary vehicle. Why not?
Sportsters aren't really bad 1 up touring bikes. Where a Sportster really falls flat is two up touring. The passenger accomadations on a Sportster are really wanting. Which works well, it's an excuse to buy the wife a bike so you can have two.
That's a myth. Almost everyone who parrots the line has never toured on a Sportster either. I have 30,000 miles on a 2003 Sportster I bought in Jule of '03. I'll cross 50,000 miles on it before the end of this Summer. It's seen many 700 mile days, and a couple of even longer days, and I've never showed up at a destination any worse for the wear than the riders of big twins. Truth to tell, I'd rather do 700 miles on my bike than my car any day.
Glad you like the Sportsters, lotta people do, but they're not real comfortable for the larger folks I know.
The one long ride I did on a Sportster (3000 mi) kicked my butt harder than anything my rigid ever did.
I ride a bagger now (cause I'm an old man) and 700 mile days on it are the easiest I ever done, but we're talking a bike designed for touring.
Lot's goes into long days, as you know. Gas stops, seat design, controls, yadda, yadda. The one thing I didn't ever get used to, was the high center of gravity in a big crosswind.
BTW, I don't parrot lines. :-}
Ouch. I'm busted.
One of these days, once the teenager flies the coop, we're going to start taking long bike trips. Tahoe, Sturgis, down the Oregon coast... yeah!!!
Good deal. I'm heading down to FL from TX this summer and then later in the Summer, I'm headed to Sturgis as well.
I wouldn't know what's comfortable to you larger folks. I'm at the other end of that scale.
Yep, I recently saw posted online a review of the 1974 XL 1000 I believe it was. The reviewer's final take? "It's a machine you can ride from coast to coast." Now we're talking about an Ironhead Sporty with a 4 speed transmission here. Nothing like the more modern ones, and certanily nothing from the 2004 and up Dynettes.
Mrs Chuckster prefers sport bikes (See my home page). She currently rides a Suzuki TL1000R so two up is rarely an issue. In fact, my own Sportster is a solo bike.
Back in the early seventies my friends and I rode everywhere on the bikes we had. Mine were Triumph Bonnevilles or, after '74, Harley FX models. By buddies had mostly Sportster XLCH or XLHs and there was a Norton or Beezer or two. We would strap on bedrolls, a spare shirt and pair of jeans and ride all over the Southwest. LA to Vegas or San Francisco, the Colorado river; for some reason we went to Kingman AZ several times. We didn't know any better. I rode my Low Rider (Shovelhead) to Sturgis in 1980 from the docks at Long Beach.
But you had to young and tough to ride one of those old Shovels or Sportsters that far. I wouldn't try it now at my age. Give me an Ultra Classic E Glide for that kind of riding.
I may one day give in to Mrs. Melas and get a Road King for two up comfort. However, the RK is as far as I can go in good conscience. I just can't see myself on a full faired bike with lower like the Ultra. What's the point? It's barely a motorcycle anymore. You get more wind in a convertable Mustang.
Gotta agree with that....one of the best deals around is a FLHT standard....no lowers, no tour pack...just a fairing and hard bags. Good price too.
In the Pacific NW (at least on the "wet" side) you can ride year round. The fairing is just a big windshield you can't see through, but it helps in the rain.
A friend of mine bought an Ultra and started stripping stuff off after a couple of months...now his tourpack is a detachable like on my standard.
Gotta tailor the scoot to your individual needs and desires.
Don't knock it 'til you've tried one. They Grow on you, especially when the weather gets cold and wet.
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