Greetings, this is my first post, I found this place on a google search, learning what I can about these bikes. Here’s my boring story first.
i ride a 2013 Ultra Classic. Very low miles, love the bike but as I age it’s becoming a chore to ride with my wife on the back, she’s small but the whole bike is just too much weight anyway and I’m not a large man.
my local Harley dealer has a used high mileage 2015 Tri for sale, 65k. That’s more miles than I prefer, but they are giving me a great deal by taking 2 crotch rockets in on trade and paying them off for us, and taking my ultra classic and paying it off as well. (Yes I have 3 bike payments thanks to my sons). Overall it would work good for me by lowering my monthly payment overall and freeing us from all those bikes nobody rides anyway and dropping the insurance.
I was skeptical that they were giving me a fair shake until I researched the prices of these bikes. After doing the math, I figured my total payments would indeed work out fair and when they told me they were giving me a heck of a deal, I can actually concur.
now for the bike itself,,,, I’m paranoid as heck due to the mileage. But it’s all I can get. Any newer and I have to put a down payment that I just don’t have. The salesman is the same one who sold me my last 2 rides and has always been fair thus far. He told me that the bike was a local trade but the owner kept it well maintained,, and went everywhere on it including Sturgis a few times. It has the normal cosmetic wear as expected, a rip in the seat, some wear of someone getting on and off it yada yada. I rode it and it seemed to run well. It was tricky at first, but I am sure I’ll get used to it and love it. My wife loved it, and we both agreed we would use it a heck of a lot more than what we have now.
so why air my diary here? I admittedly know nothing about the Tri glides. Never even sat on one till yesterday. Is there anything I should be on the lookout for? This is a very significant investment for us. An warranty would be about $50 a month extra for 3 years, then that is that.
my searches for high mileage harleys usually yield the same results, lots of people have over 100k on theirs they changed the oil religiously and other normal maintenance with little to no repair. There’s the few that had to fix major engine failure. If that happened it would be very difficult for us to recover from! Of course it’s a used bike, anything may happen here.
I just wanted to get some honest opinions from current owners, what I might watch for, I can go get the bike today if I want to and most of me does want it.
i ride a 2013 Ultra Classic. Very low miles, love the bike but as I age it’s becoming a chore to ride with my wife on the back, she’s small but the whole bike is just too much weight anyway and I’m not a large man.
my local Harley dealer has a used high mileage 2015 Tri for sale, 65k. That’s more miles than I prefer, but they are giving me a great deal by taking 2 crotch rockets in on trade and paying them off for us, and taking my ultra classic and paying it off as well. (Yes I have 3 bike payments thanks to my sons). Overall it would work good for me by lowering my monthly payment overall and freeing us from all those bikes nobody rides anyway and dropping the insurance.
I was skeptical that they were giving me a fair shake until I researched the prices of these bikes. After doing the math, I figured my total payments would indeed work out fair and when they told me they were giving me a heck of a deal, I can actually concur.
now for the bike itself,,,, I’m paranoid as heck due to the mileage. But it’s all I can get. Any newer and I have to put a down payment that I just don’t have. The salesman is the same one who sold me my last 2 rides and has always been fair thus far. He told me that the bike was a local trade but the owner kept it well maintained,, and went everywhere on it including Sturgis a few times. It has the normal cosmetic wear as expected, a rip in the seat, some wear of someone getting on and off it yada yada. I rode it and it seemed to run well. It was tricky at first, but I am sure I’ll get used to it and love it. My wife loved it, and we both agreed we would use it a heck of a lot more than what we have now.
so why air my diary here? I admittedly know nothing about the Tri glides. Never even sat on one till yesterday. Is there anything I should be on the lookout for? This is a very significant investment for us. An warranty would be about $50 a month extra for 3 years, then that is that.
my searches for high mileage harleys usually yield the same results, lots of people have over 100k on theirs they changed the oil religiously and other normal maintenance with little to no repair. There’s the few that had to fix major engine failure. If that happened it would be very difficult for us to recover from! Of course it’s a used bike, anything may happen here.
I just wanted to get some honest opinions from current owners, what I might watch for, I can go get the bike today if I want to and most of me does want it.
