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A Harley Guy's Take on Converting a new GW. Thoughts and Questions.
So it it looking more and more like I am going to be getting rid of my 2018 CVO Limited and converting a GW DCT. Most likely it will be 2021 model and most likely it will be a CSC trike. Just to let you know where I coming from, I grew up riding street bikes, the last Honda I rode was a CB 750K, The last foreign bike was a Yamaha XS Eleven. (I am old...)When I had my kids I decided to stop riding and did not ride until my youngest about 13. At that point my wife took me to a Harley dealer on my 50th birthday and told me to buy a bike. That was 12 years and about 85,000 miles ago. I considered GWs to be good touring bikes (If a little too covered with Tupperware) and certainly never saw myself wearing a Power Ranger outfit...
This thread is going to be a ongoing stream of consciousness kind of thing and I am going to be asking questions as I think of them. Please help me build my knowledge base.
My wife and I stopped at a Trike builder about 2 hours from our house. We had hoped to get a test ride, but it decided rain. Anyway we got to look at and sit on a new GW CSC trike.
1) The trike is very pretty. Maybe a little less macho than a Harley trike, but very pretty. Kind of like comparing Dom's Charger in the Fast and Furious to a curvy Ferrari.
2) All the buttons and switch's seem overwhelming. Probably no more or not much more than on my CVO, but I will have to learn them and their locations all over again.
3) At first sitting on the bike bothered my hips, but that went away after a few moments. My wife was ok with her seating position.
4) Handle bars are too far forward and maybe down for my tastes. Fortunately Helibars makes a widget to correct that.
5) Foot rests and the brake pedal seem much farther aft than on Harley. Not sure if I like that, but with the DCT I am not sure how much it will really matter.
6) Trunk is huge, my wife gave it her official seal of approval.
7) I like the phone storage and the other cubby just to the right better that the fairing storage cubby on my bike.
More to come...
So it it looking more and more like I am going to be getting rid of my 2018 CVO Limited and converting a GW DCT. Most likely it will be 2021 model and most likely it will be a CSC trike. Just to let you know where I coming from, I grew up riding street bikes, the last Honda I rode was a CB 750K, The last foreign bike was a Yamaha XS Eleven. (I am old...)When I had my kids I decided to stop riding and did not ride until my youngest about 13. At that point my wife took me to a Harley dealer on my 50th birthday and told me to buy a bike. That was 12 years and about 85,000 miles ago. I considered GWs to be good touring bikes (If a little too covered with Tupperware) and certainly never saw myself wearing a Power Ranger outfit...
This thread is going to be a ongoing stream of consciousness kind of thing and I am going to be asking questions as I think of them. Please help me build my knowledge base.
My wife and I stopped at a Trike builder about 2 hours from our house. We had hoped to get a test ride, but it decided rain. Anyway we got to look at and sit on a new GW CSC trike.
1) The trike is very pretty. Maybe a little less macho than a Harley trike, but very pretty. Kind of like comparing Dom's Charger in the Fast and Furious to a curvy Ferrari.
2) All the buttons and switch's seem overwhelming. Probably no more or not much more than on my CVO, but I will have to learn them and their locations all over again.
3) At first sitting on the bike bothered my hips, but that went away after a few moments. My wife was ok with her seating position.
4) Handle bars are too far forward and maybe down for my tastes. Fortunately Helibars makes a widget to correct that.
5) Foot rests and the brake pedal seem much farther aft than on Harley. Not sure if I like that, but with the DCT I am not sure how much it will really matter.
6) Trunk is huge, my wife gave it her official seal of approval.
7) I like the phone storage and the other cubby just to the right better that the fairing storage cubby on my bike.
More to come...