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Nice! That's my local Harley garage and they're great guys there!

 

That’s great!
Having never ridden a Harley myself, can you answer a question for me: do they not idle? Every time a Harley comes in to a stop or leaves a cafe or is travelling slowly down a street the riders are always continuously blipping the throttle, do they not work at low revs?

 

I found with my Harley when you blipped the gas it slipped into gear better without clunking and crashing in. I still do it on my Bonnie. Just A little bleep to ease the gears. But my 900 still clunks I think they call it a positive gearbox but I don't like it. There that's my two pence worth anyway. But DCS222 Have you purchased one yet.
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Joe

 

DCS222
Are you sure the other half wasn't hinting. I think she might want to buy you one. Wait for Santa see if it growls and burbles.
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Joe.

 

Nice write up mate, a different way to pass a day, hell of a round trip to do it though, nice that you have now seen some of the places us Southerners go on about, shame they didn't bring you back via Loomies!

 

DCS, I'm very late to this thread but it found me while I'm sipping a nip of Redbreast Irish Whiskey and "surfing" the forum. Your write-up of your and your missus' day on a Heritage Softail was a delight to read. And the pictures are terrific, too! It sounds like you had a lovely day.

One of my husband's and my riding buddies rides a 2018 Softail Heritage and he loves it. He has put about 20K on it in the past year and a half. He also owns a 2013 Triumph Speedmaster and a 2016 Indian Scout but seems to mostly show up to rides on his Harley. He's one of our group of five who this coming Friday is heading to the 79th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

I took the 2018 Heritage for a test ride and really enjoyed it. I was not a fan of the pre-2018 models but like the 2018+ models quite a lot. Some day if (more like when) I need to trade my beloved orange "big boy" Road Glide Special for a smaller, lighter touring bike, I'll be looking pretty hard at the Heritage.

Thanks for writing up your experience! Sorry I was late to the thread party, but I just had to respond after reading your terrific post and viewing your photos documenting your day with a Harley. BTW, what did your wife think of the bike?? Tell her she's totally cool--and a great spouse--for buying you the tour.

 

It sounds like you had a good time to me. It helps to have an agreeable wife with these matters. Having owned 2 Harleys, I will say I enjoyed them very much. They have 2 wheels and an engine, so, what's not to like!

 

Cheers back, DCS! Good to know it's not a faux pas to dig up old threads on this forum. I really loved reading your post about the Twisted One tour and I did look up the tour group, Lind Tours. They sound like a good company with some great tours. Would you recommend them?? My hubby and I are thinking hard about doing some sort of tour in Europe in the next couple of years or so. We've been leaning towards Spain but the more I'm involved on this forum the more I think the UK would be fun. We were all set to do an Edelweiss Motorcycle Tours tour of Ireland because my husband has always been under the impression that he's Irish (Stephen Michael Duley). But he thought he'd check out his ancestry before we made that decision. Anyway, he got involved with www.ancestry.com and to make a long story short, he found out he's 2% Irish and.......drum roll please.....94% English! The other 4% is German. Go figure. So now he's not so set on going to Ireland. I'd still do it--I'm all over the Irish whiskey.

Congratulations of being married for 28 years and together for 33! In this day and age that is definitely something to celebrate. I am sorry to read that your wife has MS. I hope that she has good health care people on her side and is able to manage it as well as it can be managed. She is tops in my book without even having met her for both hopping on the back with hubby after not having ridden for years and doing that with MS to boot. She's a bad-ass. I don't have those two issues that she does and I have problems wearing riding jeans with pads in them so I'll bet you're right and that it was most likely the pads and not her. I appreciate the feedback on what she thought of the Heritage. And I'm glad she had fun! Such a fun, cool gift she gave you! My hubby got me a two day camp at the Keith Code Superbike School in Las Vegas last November for my birthday. What great spouses we each have!

I'm lucky and blessed to have three bikes--a 2017 H-D Road Glide Special, a 2017 H-D Dyna Low Rider S, and a 2019 Triumph Speed Triple RS. So for me, the Heritage would be a replacement for the long haul touring capabilities of the Road Glide if and when that bike becomes too much for me. If I could only have two bikes, I'd probably have the Speedy and a Heritage. But we'll see what Triumph and Harley-Davidson have up their sleeves in the future. My life motto has become "never say never". So who knows what lies around the next corner??

 

Thanks for the recommendation, DCS. Yep, we do like the big vee's. But I really love my Speed Triple too. My husband has a 2017 Street Glide. We're both fans of the M-8 engine--and I really didn't want to like it. Once I test rode it, it was all over. That said, I really like the engine in my Low Rider S. It suits the bike and the ways and reasons I ride it quite nicely.

I have a good friend who rides a Scout and she is crazy about it. I went to a demo day about four years ago at our local Indian dealership which just happens to be about a mile from my house. I rode the Scout and sent her a photo. She test rode it the next day and put down a deposit. Hers is a 2015 and they were on order at the time and quite the hot commodity. She has taken it on a couple of trips and has been very happy with it. I liked the bike pretty well when I test rode it but it was a little "clamshell" for me with the bar and foot control configuration. My friend is about 5'1" so had to do some "reconfiguring" to get a good fit. Being that height, her choice of bikes is somewhat limited.