July 31, 2008 at 1:42 am
#9639
Matt
Participant
As a first bike, stay away from the Sportster 1200.
The 1200 is going to be a lot more of a handful when things get dicey than the 883. Spare yourself the initial trouble.
The nice thing about the Sportster is that an upgrade doesn’t mean changing bikes. There are kits (I think even a dealer installed kit) that changes the 883 into a 1200 (different heads, slight boring out of cylinders, 98% of the bike is identical between the two versions).
Also consider the Shadow VLX 600 – it si a very decent bike, nice manners. Suzuki S40, it feels kinda small (good if you are small, not so hot if you are bigger, but certainly larger guys have owned and loved S40s).
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