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[Mr D]

Looks really good…. My dad bought a new ‘83 RT first & only year with a shovel 
‘84 was a evo

[ultra13]

Thanks for posting

[Mr D]

Thanks for posting

 

[FLSTFI Dave]

I really like this bike a whole lot.  Just not able to swing it.

[Twolanerider]

First Harley I had that I really liked was an FXRT.  Rode it to death (literally), resurrected it, and beat it up again.  At a time when I was young enough and the bike wasn't special enough to be treated as anything more than just a transportation machine.  It was really my first bike that wasn't some cobbled together thing.  I liked it a lot.

Seeing the fairing and bags on this whatever-frame-it's-based-on example makes me smile.  I'm still not buying anything new from Harley.  And it's a styling option that I'm sure isn't for a lot of people, younger riders especially, but it makes me smile seeing what they've done here. 

[Mr D]

First Harley I had that I really liked was an FXRT.  Rode it to death (literally), resurrected it, and beat it up again.  At a time when I was young enough and the bike wasn't special enough to be treated as anything more than just a transportation machine.  It was really my first bike that wasn't some cobbled together thing.  I liked it a lot.

Seeing the fairing and bags on this whatever-frame-it's-based-on example makes me smile.  I'm still not buying anything new from Harley.  And it's a styling option that I'm sure isn't for a lot of people, younger riders especially, but it makes me smile seeing what they've done here.

Don,

When my dad had his new ‘83 I was 17 years young, I competitively raced dirt bikes & I use to take dads RT out & carve canyons on the roads… lol it handled that good back then for a 17 year old
It was a sure blast…. I can only imagine what this new updated version has to be like 👍🏼

[Twolanerider]

Don,

When my dad had his new ‘83 I was 17 years young, I competitively raced dirt bikes & I use to take dads RT out & carve canyons on the roads… lol it handled that good back then for a 17 year old
It was a sure blast…. I can only imagine what this new updated version has to be like 👍🏼

I remember that feeling really well.  I personally am a 1961 model and by by mid teens I was coming off dirt bikes more and to road bikes but the road bikes were whatever I could score, liberate parts from, weld together, stuff like that.  Yamkawzukidavidson kind of stuff.  Anything that ran (mostly) straight down the road was perfectly good enough.  Then sometime in last half of my 20s scored that FXRT.  It's what got me hooked on actually knocking down miles.  Really really liked that bike.

[Mr D]

I remember that feeling really well.  I personally am a 1961 model and by by mid teens I was coming off dirt bikes more and to road bikes but the road bikes were whatever I could score, liberate parts from, weld together, stuff like that.  Yamkawzukidavidson kind of stuff.  Anything that ran (mostly) straight down the road was perfectly good enough.  Then sometime in last half of my 20s scored that FXRT.  It's what got me hooked on actually knocking down miles.  Really really liked that bike.

 

[FLSTFI Dave]

.  I'm still not buying anything new from Harley.  And it's a styling option that I'm sure isn't for a lot of people, younger riders especially, but it makes me smile seeing what they've done here.

For several years with the younger people the trend has been to take a Lowrider S, and an FXRT style fairing, bags and hope up the motor a little.  There a several that are seen around Smokey Mountain Harley.  Not sure if this will sell well with young  road due to MSRP.  But the lower rider ST is selling well, with the young and old folks

[Landshark]

Taking the existing FXRT/FXRD clone and putting custom paint and calling it an icon is a bit much.  Why didn’t they just call last years an icon.  I test rode the bike and the bars were a bit funky and you could not change them to something lower since they would hit the fairing.  I will stick with my 1987 FXRC and chase down an old FXRT or FXRP fairing if that what I’m looking for.  Glad Harley is trying to bring back the old but let’s really up the ante if that the new game.