Goodbye CVO SG, hello Free Wheeler

dirtdobber

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• Apr 27, 2015

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Had to make decision. Not one that I wanted to make but had to.
Traded my 2012 cvo street glide for a 2015 free wheeler.
If I like it 50% as much as I do my cvo I'll be a happy camper.
If any one knows of any one needed a color matched tourpak send em my way, color is 2012 dark slate, it is complete, nothing needed except the 4 point docking.



Now to start dressing it up, already got the slime line chrome floorboards with tour pegs and a few other things that I took off the cvo before letting them have it.

 

Keystone

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Making it yours is half the fun IMO. Enjoy it! Let us know what you think of it in a few hundred miles.

 

Rick Kay

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Wishing you many carefree miles on your new trike! Love the color! Very nice! ThumbUp

 

Springman2007

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• Apr 28, 2015

• #5

Happy Freewheeling.....

Springman

 

Papa Zook

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Kinda surprised at the number of TriGlide owners switching to Freewheelers ...seems like you're giving up some comforts?

 

Papa Zook

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Just to clarify...I am not knocking Freewheelers at all. Lots of you guys have them and seem to love 'em, but I just don't see how they can be more comfortable than a TriGlide. I know comfort is a individual thing and not everyone is going touring on their Freewheeler.

 

Papa Zook

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Sorry I didn't mean to take your thread off topic dirtdobber..You got yourself a BEAUTIFUL trike. I just got a call from a guy that has just rode a Freewheeler and asked me if I had ever ridden one. I told him I had not. He said they are a blast. Thats what matters! Congrats!

 

dirtdobber

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Actually zook you hit the nail on the head. The tri glide is more comfortable to me but I really like the looks of the free. The ride is pretty good, momma will need a new seat but I'm good. I could do a 1,000 miles in a week end on it. This is our second trike. I have a 2012 glodwing roadsmith and now momma has a free wheeler.

The funny part is why we really got it. My wife is a die hard Harley girl so all I got was complaints about the goldwing trike, it's too quiet for her and says it way too long. Now she has no complaint not to ride now.

I was surprised at it's power and the ride is good. Handles great. Going to take some getting use it it as the 15 model has moved some things around so I have to readjust. Not a problem just got to remember.
Hijack any time, we all do it.

 

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Absolutely beautiful machine! Ride it in good health.

As one of the first to leave a Tri and go Free, for the rider there isn't much difference in comfort between the two. Never really liked the fairings and all the gages, most of my other Harleys were 'stripers'. This is just like going back to my Dyna days.

If this is going to be your wife's trike, she will love it. Wife has ridden mine, says it is faster and handles easier than her '14 Tri, but she likes all the 'goodies' on her dash.

Enjoy it!

 

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• Apr 28, 2015

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It's the Hot Rod of Trikes

 

dirtdobber

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• Apr 28, 2015

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This is my hot rod trike



It being a performance trike it rides rather rough due to the suspension being tight for handling.

Sorry I had to throw this in. Momma won't ride this one much. Don't know why, 125hp with 148 tq. No gearing changed needed.

Summer months it's on 2 wheels winter months it was 3 wheels. I take it to the drag strip in the summer months so I need it on 2 wheels. Probably gonna sell the kit now that we have 2 trikes +

 

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• Apr 28, 2015

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Nice trike. The CVO really must have been hard to see go.

 

dirtdobber

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• Apr 28, 2015

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If I wasn't so old I would be crying. I have had so many HD's in the past but the CVO SG was by far my favorite. I will be ill fer a spell. I have rode it to all 4 corners of the U.S. and several trips to OK...

We were on a ride last summer and had to stop at a red light in AR... The road was pretty bad where it had gotten hot and melted. It took every ounce of energy and muscle to keep it up while stopping. I didn't think my legs would ever stop cramping and hurting. Had to ride another 400 miles, then back home. By the time we got home I was so exhausted and so much pain I was in bed close to a month.

I realized when on a trip and loaded two up that the CVO SG weighs close to or more than 1,400 lbs. That's a lot for a 65-year-old who weighs 130 lbs with a 29-inch inseam. I have never been so exhausted in my life. I can still ride my lighter bikes, Dyna bikes, so I still get to do two wheels sometimes.

 

Poobear

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• Wednesday at 8:34 PM

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dirtdobber said:

Had to make decision. Not one that I wanted to make but had to.
Traded my 2012 cvo street glide for a 2015 free wheeler.
If I like it 50% as much as I do my cvo I'll be a happy camper.
If any one knows of any one needed a color matched tourpak send em my way, color is 2012 dark slate, it is complete, nothing needed except the 4 point docking.



Now to start dressing it up, already got the slime line chrome floorboards with tour pegs and a few other things that I took off the cvo before letting them have it.

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Nice bike, now the fun begins.
I too had to make the change. After 5 years of not riding wound up with a RG3. Absolutely love it.

 

Noodles107

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• Thursday at 11:45 AM

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I love my Freewheeler, it’s a bunch of fun and has a very retro kinda Roadster look

 

Noodles107

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• Thursday at 2:39 PM

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Like this … screams Freewheeler

 

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• Yesterday at 8:31 AM

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Noodles107 said:

Like this … screams Freewheeler
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My uncle had a Servi Car at his gas station up in New York, which his parts monkey and mechanic used. We kids were forbidden to sit on it, or mess with it in any way. To enforce those rules he had a razor strop hanging on a hook with big white letters on it "KIDS". I can feel it like it was yesterday.