H-D rental for a sportbike rider

[Buzglyd]

Instead of trying to find the most sporting H-D, why don't you rent a Road King or similar machine and expose yourself to a completely different style of riding.



You'll find yourself relaxing and enjoying the scenery instead of concentrating on apexes. As a bonus, the touring model H-Ds go better through the corners than you might imagine except for the floorboard scraping which is fun in its own right.

[trumant]

I'll echo Buzglyd's comment about the Road King. Switching from a sportbike to the King is quite an experience and one I enjoyed last year during my 3 day trip through New Mexico on a rented Road King.

[anrajala]

Well you get to choose between one model. Which variant would depend on weather (cold/warm) and distance.



Whatever you do, don´t consider Worster as an option. New improved rubber mountings or not.



- cruiz-euro

[Tigercub]

Yup, Road King and then scrape the hell out of the floorboards. You may be surprised how good those bikes corner! If the chassis hasn't change in 10 years then the rake is about 26 degrees, so it can steer tight in parking lots - works for cornering too. Show everyone how good a sportbike rider you are!!

[longride]

You're just old. You probably never rode a modern 600 either.

[longride]

+1 for getting a tour model. Road King, Road Glide, E-Glide Classic or Ultra. They will all be lots of fun and they handle very well for their size. Try one.

[Grover]

I"ll echo the sentiments above. I got a chance to take a fully loaded Ultra Classic home for a weekend awhile back and I seriously could not stop laughing while I rode the thing. It was a total hoot, handled way better than I imagined it would and was a completely different experience from my Duc. The only thing that really bothered me was the braking, but once I started using four fingers instead of two it wasn't so bad.

[mile_eater]

Umm.. Can you say Vrod?



if not.. grab a sportster 1200. Or you could always just slum for a while, and pose like the other cruiser boys.



Grab a Night Train and roll.

[mscuddy]

Get the Dyna Convertable. Most Harley-like of all the so-called sporting Harleys. You can even get a little chirp out of the rear tire when you speed-shift into second gear.



Or the Heritage Softail Classic for the true Harley experience. Just don't lean it over too far when going under 5 mph.

[johnnyb]

Golf.