The more I look at bikes, the more I wonder why cruisers are so much slower

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J Corp: Oct 16, 2006; I risked hypothermia and broken limbs and all I got was this shitty avatar and a severe case of shrinkage

HotCanadianChick posted:

Stock, the SV(F)650 is exactly as aggressive as... a sportster.

It's a little disingenuous to call an XR1200 a sportster.

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J Corp: Oct 16, 2006; I risked hypothermia and broken limbs and all I got was this shitty avatar and a severe case of shrinkage

HotCanadianChick posted:

Not really, when the full name of the model is "Sportster XR1200X". Next you'll tell me a forty-eight isn't a Sportster either.

I'm quite aware that the XR1200 is a version of Sportster, but the riding position on the XR1200 vs literally any other version of sportster is quite different. The XR1200 is as close to a sport bike as Harley is ever going to get (Besides possibly the half-assed 'cafe racer' they built for a minute in the mid-late 70's).

Take a poll on what people think of when you say 'sportster', and exactly nobody will think XR1200 off the bat.

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