This is how you write an ad, anybody want to buy a Harley?
 

http://slo.craigslist.org/mcy/4480512421.html

http://images.craigslist.org/00404_6...NJ_600x450.jpg


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That is going to get some attention. Dude must be a copywriter.

hah, those sportster riders sure need to build up the tall tales about sportsters. and to justify a 10k asking price for a 6 year old sportie!

TL;DR does not a good ad make. He should have added at the end that if you were still reading then you are too much of an egg head for a Harley.

And i never had one :)

He forgot to say:

THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR A MAN WHO: lives in San Luis Obispo, AKA: Hippy Haven of Central California

If he'll take $4,500 I'll have it painted pink and get it for my girlfriend. She's always wanted a sportster.

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she might want to get a stage 2 kit for it, so it will have some actual energy created from the motor.

i see sportsters going for that price pretty often. Why are they so much cheaper? I kind of like the idea of them being a lighter bike. I have zero interest in riding a couch on wheels myself.

Here's the exact copy from craigs list for a black fatboy of the same year ?...

condition: like new

2008 Haley Davidson Fatboy - Like New!! Price reduced to $11,000

NEW REDUCED PRICE!!

96 cubic inch - 1584 cc
2,600 miles - Black & Chrome beauty
Perfect condition, garage kept under cover
Detachable windshield and backrest
Vance & Hines pipes & many upgrades

http://sarasota.craigslist.org/mcy/4467127696.html

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1200 sporty's are pretty fast, but not worth all that. The one I had was in better condition and I got it for 5k.
Now that I'm riding a full sized road king, I want a little more off the line power so I'm getting a cam kit, it will make a huge difference. I ride almost every day.

If you spend more than 5k for a sporty, it better have gold plating somewhere

LOL, just realized I got my road king with less miles on it for less and I have a $500 lePara seat on mine

Nice marketing text unfortunately :thumbsup I am too tall for this bike :(

fatboy much more bike than a sportster. fun bikes, but not exactly the manly rocket he's bragging about

a sportster. ha what a fucking loser

Funny add. lol


Just Dave

to be fair, the sportster he's bragging about is not a manly rocket.

With rider weight a Sportster seat height is taller than a Fatboy/Wide Glide, same as a Roadking and 1/2 inch shorter than a full dresser.

I've gone thru this drill before when friends want to get a sportster for their girlfriends. The weight factor is the only real difference, not height.


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since when does the bike make the man? plenty of pussies on big bikes too.

I didn't say that. You said he was bragging about a manly rocket, and he was. But that sportster isn't manly and it isn't a rocket. Now some can be made to be and I almost took on that project after my dyna project.

but it's a tall order, to wit:

http://www.bottpower.com/images/121215-xr1-05.jpg

there are plenty of examples of rocketship sportsters, but they are very trick and that one in that craigslist ad is not one of them. That bike in the op is built from the shelves of the harley accessories dept.



This is another example of a rocket sportie and very similar to one my bro built and rode when I rode my dyna with him

http://domain.com.s180574.gridserver.../08/harley.jpg

hm think you misread my post. i was saying the sportster is not the manly rocket he was claiming. i've had one. its fun, great ride, but not the rocket he says it is

Nice one.. copyscape it to reveal it was used many times for many other bikes :)

Stabilizer tied to the rod tube? I have never seen this..
Nice build, picking it apart is all

You gotta admire the chutzpah of a guy asking $10000 for a $6500 Sportster.
Unless he's one of those Harley owners who has what he's got invested in it confused with what's it's actually worth.
I occasionally amuse myself by riding over to SLO and going up Marsh Street and down Higuera setting off car alarms with my pipes and causing all the hippie liberals on the sidewalks to cover their ears and flee shrieking to the shelter of their Safe Place. (The Apple Store) :1orglaugh
Sportster is a smaller, lighter less horsepower bike with a corresponding lower retail price, fewer are sold new and they are seen as a less-desirable used machine.
Seen by many (not me of course) as a "chick's" Harley.

How tall are you? If you are over 5'7" I wouldn't consider getting a Sportster, it will soon seem too small.
Ask Vendzilla, he had a one for a while, he very soon traded it off on a bigger bike.

You go out for a full day of riding and you get to about 300 miles covered you might just rethink that "couch on wheels" comment. :winkwink:

Like you I didn't want the full "Geezer Glide" and everybody on a Harley these days seem to be on Road Kings or Road Glides or Street Glides, I wanted to go a bit lighter, more nimble so I went with a Dyna, same motor as the bigger bikes but a couple hundred pounds lighter. Which makes it easy for me to outrun most other Harley riders I meet on the road. :)
But, it's not a great bike for long-distance touring, I'm thinking about getting a second bike for multi-day trips.

Ohhhh, a girly bike, just for me. LOL