Right on dude!!! :clap:
Ha, Dallara, you are too quick for me....I just opened up my "Zinio" 'cause I got the email notice of the new issue in my library.....and I wanted to check to see if they published the letter I wrote to them last month....I saw the XR as a TOP TEN bike, jumped on the forum to post it, and damned if you hadn't already done it!~
Just got my electronic version of "Cycle World" magazine - the August 2009 issue - which has their "Ten Best Bikes of 2009"...
And guess what bike is one of those "Ten Best"?
That's right, boys and girls - Harley-Davidson's XR1200 :clap:
Picked as 2009's "Best Standard" is quite an honor considering the competition for that category, and the bikes didn't make the "Ten Best" list at all in other categories, like Yamaha's new YZF-R1...
Nice to know everybody here picked a winner!![]()
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Dallara
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Just got my electronic version of "Cycle World" magazine - the August 2009 issue - which has their "Ten Best Bikes of 2009"...
And guess what bike is one of those "Ten Best"?
That's right, boys and girls - Harley-Davidson's XR1200 :clap:
Picked as 2009's "Best Standard" is quite an honor considering the competition for that category, and the bikes didn't make the "Ten Best" list at all in other categories, like Yamaha's new YZF-R1...
Nice to know everybody here picked a winner!![]()
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Dallara
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Yeah it isn't the fastest or the most powerful of all them...but power delivery is what makes it great...you can read it everywhere...Yer right Benny. One of the other mags picked the R1as the winner in their shootout of rockets
Wash your mouth out!My XR felt like an underpowered sofa on wheels after the testride :1eye:
seriously...you're faster in second gear than the XR will ever go....and if you open the throttle to much you're doing this on one wheelWash your mouth out!![]()
But Benny, they dont have a soul, that's the difference, no soul....seriously...you're faster in second gear than the XR will ever go....and if you open the throttle to much you're doing this on one wheel
but it's scary...a guy like me would kill himself with such a bike :innocent:
I think that does not count for the new Yamaha 4-cylinder...the sound is very special and gives the bike personality, like a ducati or RSV...rode the kawasaki too and there I have to agree it's just a soul-less plastic-aluminum rocket lol...But Benny, they dont have a soul, that's the difference, no soul....![]()