Is the classic sport-touring motorcycle doomed to extinction?

Larry Fine said:
Having extra weight makes a difference. When I weighed 385, I was always warm. Not anymore!
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I used to outdoor archery target shoot with a guy we called Big Ben. It would be January, near freezing, snow flurrying, and Ben would be shooting in a short sleeve cotton dress type shirt unbuttoned halfway down. I don't think he felt the cold air at all. It was amazing. He hated the heat of summer though. (same outfit only wet with sweat)
 
I'm not interested in owning a Harley, heck I could own 2 bikes for the same total weight but it does interest me that I'm seeing more RoadGlides on the road and being used like a motorcycle should be.

I was riding an RT from Idaho to Wisconsin first week in April a couple years back and I went south around the Rockies. It was cold too. Ran into 4 guys on Harleys, Buffalo Soldiers MC headed back to Chicago at a gas stop stop. I had heated grips heated vest and I was chilled after several hours in the 30s. They had done similar mileage with no heated grips or gear! As they say there is always somebody tougher.
 
St-Gerard said:
385 , how tall are you Larry?
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I used to be 6'3", but now I'm more like 6'1". I seem to lose a little with each joint replacement.

I had around a 52" waist back then, too; now I'm about 235-240 lb and have a 38 to 40" waist.

Another benefit is my blood pressure is always around 110-120 over 60-72, pulse around 60.
 
Bug Dr. said:
More likely to see this in Arkansas
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Mike
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....or perhaps with the rider and pillion reversed.....;)
 
the Ferret said:
In my winter riding, I rarely see other bikes out, but when I do they are usually Harleys (couldn't tell you the model they all look the same to me) ..and the guys are barely wearing gear too. They are wearing knit hats and a scarf tied around their nose mouth, sometimes no gloves, leather coat, jeans. I'm wearing a full face helmet, balaclava, Cortech coat with thermal liner, heated jacket liner, Tourmaster pants with thermal liner, deerskin gloves and running heated grips with handlebar muffs. I feel like such a wuss lol
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But how many of those guys hunched down with really short necks freezing while trying to look cool.

There is one guy I’ll never forget though.
I’m doing 70mph on the freeway. I hear a tremendous beating closing in. This guy on a custom HD wearing boots, jeans, t shirt and sun glasses passed by at 85.
It was 40 degrees.
No windshield. It was first thing in the morning. Not like he got caught out by surprise.
He looked perfectly comfortable. Relaxed yet alert. This guy had good posture as opposed to posturing.
I could feel the percussion from the exhaust. For a while. The bike was geared high such that it seemed relaxed while accentuating the individuality of each pounding of sound.
Even a mile away with my helmet and earplugs in I could clearly hear each sharp pulse. Normally I wouldn’t be impressed by a loud bike but it was set up so well and
cracked me up because the rider was probably not compensating for a small bodily instrument.
 
Guy I used to know had 270,000 miles on his RoadKing. We used to joke that he had more miles on his bike backing it out of the garage than most Harley riders have going forward.
There is a small perhaps very small percent of Harley riders that are the real deal and really are cool. Although you don't see them them wearing Harley t-shirts!
 
Donk said:
Guy I used to know had 270,000 miles on his RoadKing. We used to joke that he had more miles on his bike backing it out of the garage than most Harley riders have going forward.
There is a small perhaps very small percent of Harley riders that are the real deal and really are cool. Although you don't see them them wearing Harley t-shirts!
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You mean like this, on a 2007 Road King Classic?
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