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[WYD OPN]

We all have favorites and irritants.  What are yours?  Please list at least 5 of each from the CVO libe since '99.

FAVES:
'06 VRSCSE2:  Scarlet Red/Charcoal Slate
'02 FLHRSEI:  Candy Brandywine/Flames
'10.5 FLHTCUSE5:  Crimson Mist Black/Dark Slate
'11 FLHXSE2:  Black Diamond/Crimson
'12 FLHXSE3:  Dark Slate/Black Diamond OR Ruby Red/Typhoon Maroon
'99 FXR3:  Dark Candy Blue/Flames
'09 FXSTSSE3:  Black Diamond/Emerald Ice Flames
Any/All Screamin' Pumpkins

PEAVES:
'09 FXDFSE:  Denim Granite/Electric Blue Fade
'10 FXDFSE2:  Satin Pewter Denim/Sandstone Grind
'12 FLSTSE3:  Satin Pewter/Catacomb Graphics
'06 FLSTFSE2:  Concord Purple/Canyon Copper OR Nebula Yellow/Cobalt Blue
Any/All Sunrise Yellow Pearl

The '12 FLTRXSE in Maple Metallic/Vivid Black could potentially make either list, pending live viewing.  It'll either be the uber-kewl Root Beer Express or the Outhouse Glide.  No middle ground.

Worst wheels award goes to '09-'10 FXDFSE/2, as does the overall worst model award.

There's much more good than bad throughout CVO history.

[Twolanerider]

Favorites is easy:

FLHRSEI (red)
FLHTCSE2 (red)
FLTRSEI (red)
FXR2 (red)
FXDWG2 (red)


As for an opposite list; don't bother remembering the ones I didn't care much for.

[WYD OPN]

Favorites is easy:

FLHTCSE2 (red)
FLTRSEI (red)
FXR2 (red)
FXDWG2 (red)


As for an opposite list; don't bother remembering the ones I didn't care much for.

I'm surprised you didn't include the FLHRSEI.  And maybe both the FLHTCUSE4 and FLHXSE3 in Ruby/Typhoon.

[Twolanerider]

I'm surprised you didn't include the FLHRSEI.  And maybe both the FLHTCUSE4 and FLHXSE3 in Ruby/Typhoon.

Was keeping the list to ones I'd actually ridden for at least a tank full.  If I don't have to have actually ridden them the Road King goes to the top of my list and the red SEUC and the red late model SERG definitely get honorable mentions.  For whatever reason the red(ish) SESG never really caught my eye though...

[Ghost Rider]

'02 FLHRSEI (Candy Brandywine)
'11 FLHXSE2 (Kryptonite)
'07 FLHRSE3 (Razor Red)

The only CVO's (or are they Screamin Eagles  ) I didn't care for were the Fat Bob's.  Just not my thing.

[Rhetor]

My little feelings are hurt . . . nobody has preferred the 03 FLHRSEI2 . . . I do, for obvious reasons.  

So here is my list:

03 FLHRSEI2 (gold w/black & burgundy rips--love the centennial gold frame)
07 FLHRSE3 (red)
11 FLHXSE2 (Kryptonite)
06 VRSCSE (Electric Orange/Black)
13 FLHRSE5 (Kryptonite)---I am hoping!

Negative . . . and I know I am going to be in trouble for this . . . all of the CVO convertibles . . . only because of the price point for what you get . . . a $30k softail!  Love the bike with 103s and 110s, but not the price point!  I would just buy another vivid black Fatboy and do my own add ons.

[jchamb]

Here's my list:

'03 FLHRSEI2

(that's it...)

[willyB]

Let's not forget the best of them all.

The 2011 Autumn Haze/Antique Gunstock Street Glide.

Then again they're all pretty good looking.

[Twolanerider]

My little feelings are hurt . . . nobody has preferred the 03 FLHRSEI2 . . . I do, for obvious reasons.   

I've come almost full circle on the gold 2003s.  First time I saw one I loved it.  I'm not usually a big fan of gold paint schemes.  But liked that one a lot.  Then, like all the other 100th Anniversary bikes, they were everywhere.  Harley seemed to make so damned many of them.  You still see more gold spare parts on eBay than any other model.

Because there were so many I got a bit burned out on them.  Now they've become far less prominent.  See them less and less.  And I find I'm returning to my first impression.  Good looking bikes.

[9 1/2 Beers]

IMHO

 My worst Harley experience/bike was 2007 FLHTCUSE2

 I called her Black beauty

 Paula called her Black widow

 4 motors replaced at about 5k miles

 Had her for two yrs, rode her 15k miles-ish (4 mtr's)

 Lost my azz, I try not to talk about it

 On a good note !!!!

 I love Ziggy
 (2009 FLHTCUSE4)

 Many miles, many smiles  

 Marty

[Rhetor]

My little feelings are hurt . . . nobody has preferred the 03 FLHRSEI2 . . . I do, for obvious reasons.  

So here is my list:

03 FLHRSEI2 (gold w/black & burgundy rips--love the centennial gold frame)
07 FLHRSE3 (red)
11 FLHXSE2 (Kryptonite)
06 VRSCSE (Electric Orange/Black)
13 FLHRSE5 (Kryptonite)---I am hoping!

Negative . . . and I know I am going to be in trouble for this . . . all of the CVO convertibles . . . only because of the price point for what you get . . . a $30k softail!  Love the bike with 103s and 110s, but not the price point!  I would just buy another vivid black Fatboy and do my own add ons.

[Chains]

I like all of them, some just more than others.

[JCZ]

IMHO

 My worst Harley experience/bike was 2007 FLHTCUSE2

 I called her Black beauty

 Paula called her Black widow

 4 motors replaced at about 5k miles

 Had her for two yrs, rode her 15k miles-ish (4 mtr's)

 Lost my azz, I try not to talk about it

 On a good note !!!!

 I love Ziggy
 (2009 FLHTCUSE4)

 Many miles, many smiles  

 Marty

Is this a memorial?

Man Marty.....where did you get the patience?  I think Paula was right....black widow.....already mated with the female and now had to die.

[JCZ]

I like all of them, some just more than others.

Chains.......he's so politically correct.

[Rhetor]

I've come almost full circle on the gold 2003s.  First time I saw one I loved it.  I'm not usually a big fan of gold paint schemes.  But liked that one a lot.  Then, like all the other 100th Anniversary bikes, they were everywhere.  Harley seemed to make so damned many of them.  You still see more gold spare parts on eBay than any other model.

Because there were so many I got a bit burned out on them.  Now they've become far less prominent.  See them less and less.  And I find I'm returning to my first impression.  Good looking bikes.

In July of 02, I went in to buy my 03 Anniversary Fatboy . . . vividly remember seeing the 03 SERK on the floor that day . . . liked it, but it wasn't black and could not press my wife to go that high then for a scoot, so happily bought the Fatboy . . . tweaked it road it, and got run over in December of '10 . . . totaled the Fatboy.  When I started looking again, put my money down in June 09 for an 10 RKC . . . while waiting, started looking around for a used 03 Fatboy . . . thought I would replace that one too for nostalgic reasons.  Bumped into the 03 SERKs in my search . . . grew on me again . . . did a national hunt . . . got a steal of a deal in the summer of 2010 with only 3700 miles on it, dropped my order for the 10 RKC and never looked back.

The 03 SERK is my first CVO . . . I doubt it will ever be sold by me.  Just looking to add another CVO to the stable . . . where is that 13 FLHRSE5? . . . 12 months to go to find out!

I do know this, after experiencing my first CVO, as my primary scoot, I will never be without a CVO as long as they are making them!

Even used, it has been a whole different experience, inside and out, tweaking, riding, and enjoying the scoot.  And the CVO community on this forum has been amazing help!  You really feel a part of a special owner's group.

Man, I am getting a little too fluffy here . . . but, after 11 surgeries and 18 months in a wheelchair, bought the 03 SERK two days after I started walking again . . . two years later (and only 2K more miles) I still ride better than I walk!  Only this summer became healthy enough to get on it and work on it--can't get enough of it now.  

The 03 SERK feels a lot better than that Dr. Evil electric scooter I was on for a year and a half!