Talkback: First Ride: Harley Davidson Soft Tail Slim

09/02/2012 at 20:34

If all you're interested in is tracks and hooning, why didn't you send someone to review a custom who understands customs?

Remember, the sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch-up

Andy Hornsby 2

10/02/2012 at 14:38

I trust that you do know that the lead picture is of a Fat Boy?

10/02/2012 at 15:08

Well spotted, Hornsby. Just seeing if you were paying attention at the back. Cough.

ripsawII

10/02/2012 at 16:30

rockingmole - you want a review by someone who understands customs?

1. Take one bike journo
2. Surgically remove any previous bike experience or knowledge of any other bike genre
3. Deprive of attention during childhood
4. Over-expose with vacuous american culture
5. Teach them the YMCA dance
6. etc.

sexdrugs'n'rockingmole

10/02/2012 at 17:06

As oposed to the sportsbike routine of..
3. remove penis
4. ensure they restore belief in their masculinty through strict adhereance to bhp figures and lean angles as measurements of your worth
5. etc etc

Remember, the sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch-up

10/02/2012 at 17:35

Gentleman, settle yourselves. That was the whole point of my piece - that prejudice and bigotry are pointless. Move on nothing to see here, etc

sexdrugs'n'rockingmole

10/02/2012 at 21:28

hey andy. have they changed the lead piccy or is this AmericanV subscriber needing to pay better attention?

Remember, the sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch-up

Andy Hornsby

10/02/2012 at 23:57

Yep, give Mark his due, he was damn quick to resolve that.

Good-looking Fat Boy Special, it was.

Took me a second to spot it, but then I was gobsmacked that I'd managed to miss out on another Harley launch! Not a problem, as long as Harley don't get sniffy about the amount of coverage Victory are getting. I know they're keen to attract converts to the bar and shield, but they're increasingly complacent about keeping their core market in the face of viable competition from home, and that's going to get more noticeable when Indian return, if Polaris get that right.

Still, we've got both bikes coming for a week from Thursday, and the Seventy-Two will make the cover of the first monthly AmV if it stops snowing for long enough to be able to ride them: thirty miles in the Spanish sun or a week on British roads in February ... on deadline ... hmmm, let me think.

I'd best get some indoor photo-locations lined up :-)

jimlindsay

14/02/2012 at 19:58

Bloody Hell Mark, what shoe size are you? I'm off out to get you some nice furry slippers.

Ah, Mr Stealth, I didn't see you there until you were gone.

Chris Steels

15/02/2012 at 16:55

Blimey, think someone needs to take a chill pill instead of the usual bitter pill...

16/02/2012 at 06:59

Jim, I'm a 43. It's my birthday on May 11th... sheepskin would be nice

ripsawII

16/02/2012 at 10:19

Hey I'm 43 - its not old!

Ok it is old. I hate noisy pubs, I like real ale, I like to sit down and have a chat, I like to get there early for a few pints then bugger off early before the idiots (noisy good-looking young people) arrive.

I've got nothing against customs I just don't think they warrant the kind of in depth review that for example the panigale requires.

sexdrugs'n'rockingmole

18/02/2012 at 19:02

Ripsaw - you don't want one therefore there shouldn't be a review. Thanks almighty one, please tell us what else we're alowed to read about without wasting your time.

Remember, the sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch-up

ripsawII

20/02/2012 at 16:43

I didn't say that. Review em by all means but what is there to say? Customs don't move the game on much whereas new sports bikes do.

The obvious exception is that ducati diavel. It obviously deserves more column inches than anything HD are mugging people with.

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