Originally Posted by TBM
Originally Posted by Redfate
Originally Posted by Bonesie
Originally Posted by Redfate
Must have been a long time ago then Bonesie, they are anything but slow now a days cheers


2010 ish

It was the 833 Iron. I bought not long after selling my R6 so compared to that, it was a slug


That makes sense then as it was the smallest and slowest they made. The 883 Sportster is the entry level to the Harley World, have a test ride on a CVO Low Rider S, it will tear your head off your shoulders laugh2


Remember - there's 'fast harley' and 'fast jap bike' - they are very different beasts. I reckon my 33yr old ZX10 will out perform the CVO (I think the CVO has about 96bhp and around 120mph? top speed - the ZX has 135+bhp and tops out at 165mph).


And only one of them has brakes. Before I bought my last BM, I tested a Harley. Cant remember whether it was a Dyna or a Softail but it was one of the two. Tested it following a sales guy and damn ear wrote it off running into him because the brakes were dreadful by comparion with the BMW I had ridden to the dealer on. One single front disk to stop something weighting 300kg compared to twin discs for a 200kg BM. IMO the brake design was so inadequate as to be unsafe