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Information: My brother got one of these in the fall of 2003. Since he was imminently moving out of the LIVING HELL known as Southern California, I did a Harley Fly/Ride and met her on the strip three years ago, in a Camaro with this dude from LA (wait a minute, that wasn´t me, that was "Racing in the Streets" by Springsteen). What I meant was I rented a dresser outta LA. He (the Bro, not the dude in the Camaro) and I did 1600 miles or so in four days around Arizona at Thanksgiving. Not an all-time mileage record, but then, the days were short and sometimes it was 26 degrees F, so we were happy with the performance (don´t tell our mother that Thanksgiving dinner, because of temperature and time constraints, was a Turkey club sandwich from a Mobil station about 20 miles south of Flagstaff; she´d never let us out on a holiday again). These Glides rock and there is nothing else to say to top that compliment. When my brother told me he was selling the Dyna and getting a bagger, I thought maybe it was time to just admit he was prematurely senile and perhaps compassionate euthenasia was the next step. Boy oh Boy was I wrong. And I´m glad I was because I still have a brother instead of the name "Kevorkian" tattooed on my forehead. Cruise at 80 mph all day listening to Johnny Cash or Nine Inch Nails on the CD player (or both AT THE SAME TIME if you choose "I Hurt Myself Today" off of "American IV"), click on the cruise control and stretch out in the back seat for a nap. They handle like dreams and at one point carving down a canyon at like 85 I was fender-to-fender with my brother thinking "this is too easy." Then I realized his wife was in his queen seat and while a little fun between brothers that ends in an accidental death is sadly all too common and yet understandable, killing his wife would NOT be OK. I´d have to shoot myself if I did that, no way around that screw up. So I backed off. When the cash is coming in again, I am getting the 2004 Screamin´ Eagle model with the 103 SE engine, low suspension and all the chrome and goodies. Then my brother and I will likely head to Finland on them for the summer up there. We´ll head out in January - it will be a long, long trip. Note the requisite 100mph photo, boots up on the crash bars and I think it was Johnny Cash´s "When the Man Comes Around" on the CD. Life really doesn´t get much better than that. Unless maybe at the AVN convention in Vegas, but that´s another story and different scene altogether...
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