[Jeff Higgins]

Yeah, for those of you asking, my wife and I were in a fairly serious accident in July. An oncoming pickup truck pulled the classic left turn accross our lane in front of us and creamed us pretty good. Totaled our old Road King and laid us both up for about six weeks. No fun.

As far as the fuel injection, I see absolutely no advantage over the carb that was on the old bike. Milage is about the same, throttle response is the same, and the old bike never did have any smell to the exhaust. Operationally there really is no difference, other than choking the carb and pumping the accelerator pump once to start it when cold. Once they are running, I would defy anyone to tell me which is which just from riding the two. The Keihen CV carb that was on the old one really is that good.

I would not hesitate to buy one of these with a carb again. As a matter of fact, if it were still available, I would have prefered to buy the new one with a carb. Far easier to tune, far easier to fix, far easier to understand. I know they probably need FI to meet modern emissions, and probably to appeal to the wide-eyed chromosexuals who understand neither carbs nor FI, but FI sounds cooler to them.