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Offline flash

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Street Rod
« on: June 21, 2005, 10:27:52 am »
I had the new Harley Street Rod out on the weekend. It was a lot of fun. The motor was surprisingly smooth, and had some real snap between 4-6k rpm. I was impressed with the acceleration. The seat to foot peg distance was pretty tight, tighter that my R1's, but it handled really well. It's a tall bike, taller than the ZX12R. The suspension handled the bumps no problem at all. I could do some fun sport riding on that thing.

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Re: Street Rod
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2005, 12:21:03 pm »
I had the new Harley Street Rod out on the weekend. It was a lot of fun. The motor was surprisingly smooth, and had some real snap between 4-6k rpm. I was impressed with the acceleration. The seat to foot peg distance was pretty tight, tighter that my R1's, but it handled really well. It's a tall bike, taller than the ZX12R. The suspension handled the bumps no problem at all. I could do some fun sport riding on that thing.

Yeah, the Street Rod looks a lot better to me than anything else in their line.  I don't think I'd want one really, but it does look like Harley hit the right target with that bike.  Not sure about passenger accomodations, which would be important to me if I had that sort of bike.

The V-Rod wasn't for me at all, but the Street Rod looks like it has potential when I get a bit older and smarter. ;)
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