Frank Mopar
Well-Known Member
Time to trash my “loud pipes save lives” T-shirt
Silence and Harleys does not equate.
https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/motorcycles/future-vehicles/livewire.html
Till I see a plug in at every place they sell gas and they charge in 5 minutes, it's all BS. It's the cart before the horse as far as I'm concerned. Let the Horses run ... gas horses, that is....
. It's kinda like removing the boobs, butt and snapper from a lady..
For long distance rides, perhaps. But I'd have lots of patience in letting it charge overnight while I slept so I could rocket around the city. I'm sure that as a commuter, many people would be just fine with that scenario.Till I see a plug in at every place they sell gas and they charge in 5 minutes, it's all BS. It's the cart before the horse as far as I'm concerned. Let the Horses run ... gas horses, that is....
Wonder if it will be a sales flop like the V-Rod ?
The first motorcycle I bought, and still have, is a 2011 V-Rod Muscle. My wife got a 2006 Screamin' Eagle V-Rod a year later. We love our V-Rod motorcycles!The vrod sold 10,000 units a year, so not a flop as far as moto sales go
A minor set backHarley Davidson stopped production of the electric Harley......…. Go figure
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...on-live-wire-electric-motorcycles/3979634002/
I loved my vrod but it wasn't good enough for where I lived when I moved so I traded it for a xr1200xThe first motorcycle I bought, and still have, is a 2011 V-Rod Muscle. My wife got a 2006 Screamin' Eagle V-Rod a year later. We love our V-Rod motorcycles!
The V-Rod is the only Harley-Davidson I would own. Double overhead cams, liquid cooled, engine based on H-D last superbike race engine, codeveloped with Porche...
Oh, and a 9,000 RPM redline.
Wasn't "good enough"?it wasn't good enough for where I lived when I moved so I traded it for a xr1200x
When I lived in Colorado the vrod was awesome and I loved it, I still miss it and the motor was fantastic. The roads out there are really wide and usually have a full size paved shoulder and were very forgiving, when I moved back to Mississippi and had to ride down curvy old wagon trails that were half the width of CO roads with no shoulder. The vrod lost it's fun factor because it's biggest short coming was it was too low and wide and it's lean angle was crap. The xr1200x is less horsepower but loves the curves and is 200lbs lighter, totally destroys my nightrod on a narrow curvy road. So my needs changed when I switched to more closed up terrain and that's the only reason I traded it. I wish I could have kept them bothWasn't "good enough"?
In what way?
When I was looking to buy one, I had experience with renting a Fat Boy, looked hard at the XR1200X, but it was a used bike section that caught my attention. I saw a bike that stood out in its appearance, a Night Rod V-Rod. I sat on it and checked out the gauges and other aspects of the bike. At about 10 seconds, I spontaneously said "Wow! This is more like it!" We seriously wanted to buy one, but up until that point, nothing was tugging at my wallet.
The salesman brought us to the mechanic area and still in the plastic wrap and shipping crate....BAM! there it was! Yellow and black and sexy as hell, my 2011 VRSC-F...We were in Las Vegas renewing our vows, remarried by Elvis in a 50s era diner, and I wanted a motorcycle to ride, being beckoned by the smooth, curvy desert mountain road that wound its way back and forth between Las Vegas and Lake Mead, where we were staying in our travel trailer. We had triple towed the trailer and my bass boat behind the H2 Hummer from New Orleans to Lake Mead. I didn't have a motorcycle endorsement at the time and wanted to rent one, but I knew if I bought a bike they couldn't keep me from riding it. We had been talking about buying one anyway.
When I saw the bike I bought, my hair stood on end...yeah, it was like that.
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