Topic: How Do You Softail Riders Like Long Trips on the Springer (Read 16780 times)

solo2racing · « **Reply #45 on:** September 12, 2009, 08:19:41 PM »

Quote from: TheTortoise on May 13, 2008, 12:53:09 PM

The SERK is my main choice to get. But I also love the looks of the Softail. Lets hear from the Springer folks about their long rides of 300 or more miles a day. How is the small windshield as an option and the leather bags.

doug

I just picked up a 07 FXSTSSE in Franklin TN and did 730 miles in 9:43 from Franklin, TN to Fort Worth, TX and let me tell you my back, butt, neck and right hand were hurting big time by the time I got home....

To me a Springer just doesn't look right with a windscreen or saddle bags... but to each their own...

Kevin.....

ice6900 · « **Reply #46 on:** September 14, 2009, 03:46:11 AM »

Quote from: solo2racing on September 12, 2009, 08:19:41 PM

To me a Springer just doesn't look right with a windscreen or saddle bags... but to each their own...

Kevin.....

I am in total agreement with you there, i have now clocked up up over 31,000km on my 07, mostly on long trips to rallies and sitting on the stock seat with no screen for up to 8 or 9 hours a day covering up to 1000km, while in germany i take the opportunity to crank it out to 180kph and cruise @ 150/160kph were allowed, its just something you either get used too or you buy a bagger!

rbaker · « **Reply #47 on:** September 30, 2009, 07:33:46 AM »

Quote from: SMOKIN' JACKET on August 07, 2009, 11:16:57 PM

Hey, sorry I missed this post. I ride everywhere without a windshield, too. I wear a 3/4 helmet most of the time, but a full-faced helmet in the winter. I absolutely love my bike and am never uncomfortable. My longest ride was to Street Vibrations- maybe 200 miles. I just get out there and RIDE. The freeway doesn't bother me anymore. I have the reach seat. Standard handlebars. I just put one of those velcro throttle controls on and it works really well.

My co-riders think I'm crazy. Street glides, road kings and heritage softail. They love their fairings, radios, warm legs. My boyfriend wants me to get a Street Glide, but I don't want to get rid of my Springer. I get tons of compliments on my bike because every other bike looks the same as the next. I wonder if I would change my mind, as most do, if I were to get a Street Glide? It's a nice bike, but is it exciting? I want to RIDE, not SIT.

I would keep the Springer LOL , Richard

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