Chinese Sportsters, possibly?

[oldironnow]

There’s a guy at work who careens in on a ‘95 most every morning. (About 95% of the time)
And i always have lust for its lean simplicity.
Narrow and pure.

[hacksaw]

no, i mean i took a picture with my phone of the 2023? nightster at the dealers. the one with the new motor.
they did have a regular 2022 iron left.

i never took much pictures of my old bikes. some do exist. not of all of them but if i find some i will post.

i have to somehow reduce the size of the nighter picture.

[hacksaw]

monkeyshines wrote

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby

AGREED!

[hacksaw]

oldironnow wrote

There’s a guy at work who careens in on a ‘95 most every morning. (About 95% of the time)
And i always have lust for its lean simplicity.
Narrow and pure.

exactly their appeal.

the 4 speeds are even narrower.

[hacksaw]

motogrady wrote

I wanna see some of those Polaroids you have, of your old bikes in those shoeboxes.  

Put the pic on a sheet of white paper, get as close as you can before it gets fuzzy, take the shot and upload it right from your phone.

well i am going to have to do some digging.
here is a crappy picture of my 2010.

well i guess not. invalid url or something!

[hacksaw]

Ok. That was simple!

[motogrady]

hacksaw wrote

no, i mean i took a picture with my phone of the 2023? nightster at the dealers. the one with the new motor.
they did have a regular 2022 iron left.

i never took much pictures of my old bikes. some do exist. not of all of them but if i find some i will post.

i have to somehow reduce the size of the nighter picture.

Ya resizing is a hassle.

Maybe try medium or small when you hit “insert image”.

Another messed up thing, pics showing up sideways.
Pull up the pic going sideways, take a screenshot of it.

Load the pic from screenshot file on your phone it should post right side up.  

[Fatfatboy]

hacksaw wrote

Ok. That was simple!

Did someone stick a Sportster tank on a Yamaha Bolt?😀

[hacksaw]

Does a Yamaha Bolt have 90hp?

[Fatfatboy]

Nope, 65hp
It’s air cooled

[Fatfatboy]

Here it run.
https://youtube.com/shorts/EJ8eAX-M5Ro?feature=share

I notice the nose cone is different than the original.

[hacksaw]

My point.
The bolt isn’t a bad looking bike . But it’s not for me.
I suffer from the days people made their own bobbers and they usually were Indian, Harley or British .
So there is no historic or artistic appeal to the Bolt.
Regardless , my pointing out the HP difference was replying to your comment about the tank . Lol.
I agree the nightster is challenged in more than one styling que. but 90hp may make up for much of it.
The ergos seem really good.

[monkeyshines]

Oh boy

[motogrady]

monkeyshines wrote

Oh boy

Some good links showing up here lately.
Thx ‘shines.

Looking around over there, this popped up.

https://www.topspeed.com/harley-davidson-338r-and-500r-inch-one-step-closer-to-your-home/

[hacksaw]

China it’s self is disturbing .
China will stab HD in the  back worse than Erik Buell did.
This whole bunch of crap will be the end of HD as a premium American icon.

A “we are the world “ non motorcycling ceo.
If this crap shows up in Harley showrooms , along with 45$ made in Pakistan tv shirts, I am going to be embarrassed to walk into a showroom .

As I said , I like the new nightster , but I hear the ST standard is being dropped .
These people are out of their minds.
Rebadged benellis made in China , a country that gave us death from Covid , uses slave labor and practices genocide , and is flooding our country with fentanyl . Not to mention stealing everything they can in a cyber war and paid off at least hunter Biden .

I should go back to Indian . Really.

[motogrady]

Really.

You think they would have learned after
the Rikuo.  

[hacksaw]

They didn’t learn after the Boxer rebellion .

[Fatfatboy]

Looks like it’s coming to Europe and not for cheap. $11,000.00 usd. Going to be called the SWM Stormbreaker.

https://www.advrider.com/swm-stormbreaker-whats-up-with-the-chinese-sportster/

I’m not sure if the Europeans feel the same as we do about Chinese knockoffs but I guess we will see if this proofs HD made a mistake by not making the Evo sporty Euro compliant.

[hacksaw]

It’s cheaper than the last run of real 1200’s
But the idea still want me to heave this evenings
Roast and potatoes .
Who in their right mind would buy one if these here?
They would be ridiculed beyond belief , and more !
Sick. It’s sick .

[hacksaw]

Euro compliant? Fk them !
They couldn’t make them Newsome compliant .