2012 Harley-Davidson Seventy-Two Review

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2012 Harley-Davidson Seventy-Two Review

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[seruzawa]

Another chopperesque parts bin Sportster. Egads. With a hydroplane-line-following skinny front tire. Sign me up.

BTW. In 1972 Sportsters had 19" fronts, 18" rears and regular controls. Harley built nothing like it so it hearkens back to actually zilch. Chopped Sportsters were looked at as cheap substitutes for those who couldn't afford a Shovel, Pan or Knuck. So much for PR hype.

[schizuki]

I'm flashing back to that box of Easyriders magazines I found out on the curb when I was in middle school. Fortunately I had previously gotten my hands on a couple Penthouse, so the Easyriders $kanks didn't imprint on me.

Kids these days don't know how good they've got it with the Internet. If you were a kid back in the day and you wanted pr0n, you had to find it. And you had to skillfully separate those moldy pages like you were defusing a bomb, so you didn't leave stuck paper on her best bits. It was either that, or be stuck with the JC Penney catalog lingerie section.

What were we talking about again?

[Huss]

The current market that this is aimed for (20-30 yr olds) have no idea what it was like back when, so authenticism does not matter.
It has wicked paint, makes a statement, and will sell out.
The Japanese mfgs that cannot move their cruisers unless they have crazy discounts must be kicking themselves again.

[The_AirHawk]

Your gaze is drawn to the gleaming engine and exhaust, yet the Seventy-Two avoids looking gaudy, like H-D went over-the-top with the shiny stuff.

Pete, your eyes must not be what they used to way back when; (like, last week!) That, or there is no Accounting for taste (although there should be......)

accounting, noun:

1. a detailed report of the financial state or transactions of a person or entity: an accounting of the estate
2. an explanatory statement of conduct, as to a superior: an accounting of his actions and transgressions against all of motorcycledom before God
3. a statement of reasons, causes, etc., explaining some event.

[The_AirHawk]

Originally Posted by Huss

The current market that this is aimed for (20-30 yr olds) have no idea what it was like back when, so authenticism does not matter.
It has wicked paint, makes a statement, and will sell out.
The Japanese mfgs that cannot move their cruisers unless they have crazy discounts must be kicking themselves again.

That explains why Honda's Furry could not be kept on Dealer Showroom-floors for the first year-and-a-half it was offered....

Note:
<--- does not give a half-shyte for Cruisers of any make, model, or other sub-category.

[Pete_Brissette]

Originally Posted by The_AirHawk

Pete, your eyes must not be what they used to way back when; (like, last week!) That, or there is no Accounting for taste (although there should be......)

accounting, noun:

1. a detailed report of the financial state or transactions of a person or entity: an accounting of the estate
2. an explanatory statement of conduct, as to a superior: an accounting of his actions and transgressions against all of motorcycledom before God
3. a statement of reasons, causes, etc., explaining some event.

Someone 'round here recently said something about bike reviews being chock full o' opinions...

May I please have a copy of The_AirHawk's Dictionary? It's well annotated.

[Pete_Brissette]

Originally Posted by seruzawa

Another chopperesque parts bin Sportster. Egads. With a hydroplane-line-following skinny front tire. Sign me up.

BTW. In 1972 Sportsters had 19" fronts, 18" rears and regular controls. Harley built nothing like it so it hearkens back to actually zilch. Chopped Sportsters were looked at as cheap substitutes for those who couldn't afford a Shovel, Pan or Knuck. So much for PR hype.

You're a living encyclopedia of motorcycle history, no doubt. I'm guessing, tho, that H-D was trying to hit on the chopper theme from way back, as a generalization, and put it into this current Sporty. I haven't spoken with the designer, but I'm not sure the idea was to directly resurrect the image of chopped/bobbed Sporties back in the day, just some of the dominant chopper themes of the era.

[Buzglyd]

Originally Posted by schizuki

I'm flashing back to that box of Easyriders magazines I found out on the curb when I was in middle school. Fortunately I had previously gotten my hands on a couple Penthouse, so the Easyriders $kanks didn't imprint on me.

Kids these days don't know how good they've got it with the Internet. If you were a kid back in the day and you wanted pr0n, you had to find it. And you had to skillfully separate those moldy pages like you were defusing a bomb, so you didn't leave stuck paper on her best bits. It was either that, or be stuck with the JC Penney catalog lingerie section.

What were we talking about again?

Dude that is hilarious because we had an alley behind my house in L.A. My buddies and I found a bunch of muddy copies of 70s skin rags and kept em stashed back there for easy viewing.

Those were the days!

[12er]

Are we sure its not 1/3 scale? Sporties aren't the largest bikes but that looks like a rebel with a vtwin.