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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
Todd...as an owner of BMW's sport machine K12S and an HD SGC, I can tell you first hand that both of these machines have a valid place in my garage. Different tools for different jobs I guess. You chose to live in LA and ride in LA traffic. Not sure I'd ride any bike in that environment. I live in a rural lake community 20 minutes from the foothills of the Appalachians. For relaxing country road rides with no specific destination, the HD SGC is the perfect platform. The sound, feel and simplicity of the SGC provides a certain satisfaction that is hard to describe and I certainly understand if you can't relate. For mountain carving, there's no better tool than my K12S. It devours tight mountain curves effortlessly and only wants to take them faster each time.
Completely different machines for completely different tasks. Both of which are very satisfying. Ultimately, I've never ridden a bike I didn't like.
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I understand the "horses for courses" argument, and I even get the HD thing - but I don't get it. If that makes sense. I understand the attraction, and there are certain HDs that I find compelling (some recent flat-tracker in orange and black comes to mind) but I was surprised when I went to look at the 2009 bikes online and just didn't "get" any of them except maybe the Nightster.
"Relaxing" is not a word that comes to mind when riding in LA. Though once you get away from the city you can find that.