Hi Chris - And thank you for another wonderful video post, Ep 9. So much educational content and presented well. The timeline of graphics and pictures is superb. I am presently riding a 2013 Sportster 1200 Custom. Past Sportsters have been 2005 XL883Low and a 1993 XL883, which was made into a 1200cc. Happiness is the key. My ‘13 is a keeper. I cannot let this one get away from me. Thanks again for your work on this piece.
Ima n older guy now and will come back to motorcycling after 30 years. Thank You for your programs, with minutious analysis and much of personal touch. You teaching me to start loving sportsters... Thank You.
Morning Data - many thanks for the positive comment (in marked contrast to your other comment which was horrible). I, too, am an 'older guy' (61, in a minute). I rode my last real motorcycle in about 1984 and didn't touch one again for twenty years, when I hired a Wide Glide for the weekend. Then, in 2016, I bought a Suzuki VX800: my first bike for 32 years. It was a disastrous choice of bike, but it did help me learn what my motorcycling needs were - and how those needs had changed (so much!!) over 30 years. And it showed me that I still loved riding. Back in 2016 Anna & I were going through tough times as her physical health has been bad for nearly 20 years now. My own mental health has always been 'iffy' and it took a serious nose-dive then. Anna recognised my need for an avenue of 'escape' (even in her own suffering: Bless her indeed) and suggested the bike. Although I was devastated when I had to sell the VX, in 2018 we arranged a new mortgage and I was able to buy the wonderful XL1200 Custom. I never realised how powerfully the Sportster passion would engulf me - but it has (!) and I'm glad. :-) If I have been able to 'teach you to start loving Sportsters', then I have succeeded. Thank you for saying so! Cheers Data, Chris
Morning Chris - thank you for another kind post. As for the 'chirping': I have to use hearing aids so I can't hear it! I'll get Anna to listen later. (As it happens, Anna can hear high sounds and I can hear low sounds - what a team!) Cheers, Chris
Thanks, Chris, for all your work on this Sportster series. Being the same age as yourself I can relate to what you said about bikes in the 70's, 80's and onwards. I own a 2007 1200 Sportster Roadster which I sold about 10 years ago, had a 1690 Fat Bob, sold it and bought the same Sportster back again. In my opinion a better bike. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids. Wishing you and your wife all the best. Matt 11:28
I have always tried to respect peoples opinions, but this one is just... irrelevant. While the EVO Sportster is obviously far from perfection and has in no point in time been the best machine in the world, it is still even farther from being the worst American made motorcycle. You would instead have been welcome to say you are not getting the point of such oldschool motorcycle, because that would have been the truth (while also rendering your opinion about the bike irrelevant, but in a mannered way). E.g. - many people do not like sportsbikes - useless crotch rocets, they say, as you're not supposed to go over the speed limit anyway. And a whole lot of people in US hate the Jap bikes just for being Japanese - pointless Kamasuki plastic cr*p, they say. Honda riders do not like Suzukis, even Harley riders have strong opinions between Dyna, Softail, Sportster, Touring and god forbid the V-Rod and that's still just scratching the surface. For every single bike in the world you can find someone who does not like it. Are they all correct? All the bikes in the world are objectively bad? Or are they all just missing the point of the bikes they are talking cr*p about? I personally have never been brand loyal, having had numerous very different motorcycles in my 30+ years of riding and currently owning 8 bikes that I've carefully chosen for their purpose - and one of them is a cheap old rigid mount EVO Sportster. It may be the slowest and least powerful street bike I've owned during this millennium, but just such an simple joy of a ride, reminding me of how far we have come from the ancient technology we as poor kids had to deal with in the '80-s and '90-s - and also that a man's life is supposed to be a lot simpler than it is these days. It is brilliant for what it is for! That's the mental health side of motorbikes - an oldschool HD seems to be a lot better at fixing you up than modern bikes that may be better at getting you where you need to go. For me, the old Sportster is an invaluable piece of kit and I do not plan to get rid of it any time soon.
Hi Chris - And thank you for another wonderful video post, Ep 9.
So much educational content and presented well. The timeline of graphics and pictures is superb. I am presently riding a 2013 Sportster 1200 Custom. Past Sportsters have been 2005 XL883Low and a 1993 XL883, which was made into a 1200cc. Happiness is the key. My ‘13 is a keeper. I cannot let this one get away from me.
Thanks again for your work on this piece.
Awesome video as usual. As the proud owner of a 1986 Sportster I appreciate this series in general, and this episode in particular.
"I didn't want a Harley and bought a Sportster; I wanted a Sportster, so I bought a Harley." Nailed it. TWD
😎 Cheers mate.
Exactly why I have my Sportster.
Another excellent episode!!
Ima n older guy now and will come back to motorcycling after 30 years. Thank You for your programs, with minutious analysis and much of personal touch. You teaching me to start loving sportsters... Thank You.
Morning Data - many thanks for the positive comment (in marked contrast to your other comment which was horrible).
I, too, am an 'older guy' (61, in a minute). I rode my last real motorcycle in about 1984 and didn't touch one again for twenty years, when I hired a Wide Glide for the weekend. Then, in 2016, I bought a Suzuki VX800: my first bike for 32 years. It was a disastrous choice of bike, but it did help me learn what my motorcycling needs were - and how those needs had changed (so much!!) over 30 years. And it showed me that I still loved riding.
Back in 2016 Anna & I were going through tough times as her physical health has been bad for nearly 20 years now. My own mental health has always been 'iffy' and it took a serious nose-dive then. Anna recognised my need for an avenue of 'escape' (even in her own suffering: Bless her indeed) and suggested the bike.
Although I was devastated when I had to sell the VX, in 2018 we arranged a new mortgage and I was able to buy the wonderful XL1200 Custom. I never realised how powerfully the Sportster passion would engulf me - but it has (!) and I'm glad. :-)
If I have been able to 'teach you to start loving Sportsters', then I have succeeded. Thank you for saying so!
Cheers Data,
Chris
Had a 1991 883, really enjoyed it. Currently riding a Moto Guzzi V7 III, but this series of videos is making me think about a Sportster again.
I wish Harley-Davidson would have kept the EVO Sportster in production. Many thanks, Chris.
Me too, Walter. Me too... Thanks for commenting. 😄
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Thanks. Learn so much with these series. Please keep going til the end of the greatest harleys ever.
Thank you Skip. I'll do my best to keep them coming. Thanks again.
Excellent presentation Chris!! Enjoyed!
Many thanks Yoso 😁
Thanks!
You're welcome! :-) And thank you for your support regarding foreplay!
Cheers,
Chris
Another great installment to your library! What is the chirping sound at the end? 40:43
Morning Chris - thank you for another kind post. As for the 'chirping': I have to use hearing aids so I can't hear it! I'll get Anna to listen later. (As it happens, Anna can hear high sounds and I can hear low sounds - what a team!)
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks, Chris, for all your work on this Sportster series. Being the same age as yourself I can relate to what you said about bikes in the 70's, 80's and onwards. I own a 2007 1200 Sportster Roadster which I sold about 10 years ago, had a 1690 Fat Bob, sold it and bought the same Sportster back again. In my opinion a better bike. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids. Wishing you and your wife all the best. Matt 11:28
Morning Doug - thank you for your appreciation of this series, and for your kind words for Anna & I.
Cheers,
Chris
The foreplay is killing me. Get on to the point.
Morning Gary - I am so pleased to be able to educate another man regarding 'foreplay'. (I never knew I had it in me!)
@@chrisoftheot6272 you don't.
Are you sure you are on the right channel? I for one like Chris's approach exactly as it is. Not everything in the world has to be done in a hurry.
This is probably a worst American made motorcycle. Sportster is just simply disgusting, out of technology and worst riding experience. INDEED!
I have always tried to respect peoples opinions, but this one is just... irrelevant.
While the EVO Sportster is obviously far from perfection and has in no point in time been the best machine in the world, it is still even farther from being the worst American made motorcycle. You would instead have been welcome to say you are not getting the point of such oldschool motorcycle, because that would have been the truth (while also rendering your opinion about the bike irrelevant, but in a mannered way).
E.g. - many people do not like sportsbikes - useless crotch rocets, they say, as you're not supposed to go over the speed limit anyway. And a whole lot of people in US hate the Jap bikes just for being Japanese - pointless Kamasuki plastic cr*p, they say. Honda riders do not like Suzukis, even Harley riders have strong opinions between Dyna, Softail, Sportster, Touring and god forbid the V-Rod and that's still just scratching the surface. For every single bike in the world you can find someone who does not like it.
Are they all correct? All the bikes in the world are objectively bad? Or are they all just missing the point of the bikes they are talking cr*p about?
I personally have never been brand loyal, having had numerous very different motorcycles in my 30+ years of riding and currently owning 8 bikes that I've carefully chosen for their purpose - and one of them is a cheap old rigid mount EVO Sportster. It may be the slowest and least powerful street bike I've owned during this millennium, but just such an simple joy of a ride, reminding me of how far we have come from the ancient technology we as poor kids had to deal with in the '80-s and '90-s - and also that a man's life is supposed to be a lot simpler than it is these days. It is brilliant for what it is for!
That's the mental health side of motorbikes - an oldschool HD seems to be a lot better at fixing you up than modern bikes that may be better at getting you where you need to go.
For me, the old Sportster is an invaluable piece of kit and I do not plan to get rid of it any time soon.