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    Default Harleys attempt to compete with the Spyder??

    is it not lovely
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    That's not a production unit either...

    But it's damn sure ugly !!

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    Wait a minute...
    You weren't serious; were you?
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    A bit on the precocious side for me. If I would do that, it would have to be a Slingshot.

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    Just because you can, doesn't mean you should


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Denman View Post

    Wait a minute...
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    with the stering wheel they in the slingshot market! This was more spyder like also HD fyi
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    yOU GUYS BROKE MY HEARTH, I WAS ABOUT TO GO BUY ONE

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    Quote Originally Posted by vided View Post
    Just because you can, doesn't mean you should


    Bucket seats and steering wheel??? Pu-leeeeese!
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    Default WHY?

    Some things are better left undone.

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    Default Okay then.....

    That looks like a house with two additions... they have better looking ones....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mexican View Post
    yOU GUYS BROKE MY HEARTH, I WAS ABOUT TO GO BUY ONE
    Nothing personal bud just honest looking out for our fellow spyder ryders. Do yourself a favor & test ride a slingshot. Its a JOKE with license plate. Rides like a go-cartyes you feel fast when only 2inches off ground! So avoid anywhere with speed bumps or youwill bottem out may even high center & get stuck. Be happy with the spyder & focus on FARKLE's. You will be happier in long run

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bfromla View Post
    Nothing personal bud just honest looking out for our fellow spyder ryders. Do yourself a favor & test ride a slingshot. Its a JOKE with license plate. Rides like a go-cartyes you feel fast when only 2inches off ground! So avoid anywhere with speed bumps or youwill bottem out may even high center & get stuck. Be happy with the spyder & focus on FARKLE's. You will be happier in long run
    I have to admit, i did like the Slingshot when i first saw it from the front, then i looked at it from the rear, ugliest rear end i have ever seen!!

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    No, this is a more realistic Harley based competitor (Campagna V13R); perhaps more to the slingshot: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Other-Makes-...m=401026859679







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    Quote Originally Posted by Mexican View Post
    I have to admit, i did like the Slingshot when i first saw it from the front, then i looked at it from the rear, ugliest rear end i have ever seen!!
    "Vehicular" rear end that is understood

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bfromla View Post
    Nothing personal bud just honest looking out for our fellow spyder ryders. Do yourself a favor & test ride a slingshot. Its a JOKE with license plate. Rides like a go-cartyes you feel fast when only 2inches off ground! So avoid anywhere with speed bumps or youwill bottem out may even high center & get stuck.

    It may ride like a go-cart, but the spyder rides like a quad.....

    Alpha Powersports is going to be releasing a turbo charged slingshot in 2016....250 rear wheel hp... http://www.alphapowersport.com/

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    The Slingshot scares me! It looks like a death trap. At least on a motorcycle or Spyder, one could abandon ship if need be! The thing is so low to the ground that I really don't think that most cage drivers would even see it. My Dodge Ram, Big Horn, 400HP, Hemi powered 4x4 could easily run over the entire vehicle at idle in 4 wheel drive. I have a farm in a rural area, with lots of Agri machinery driving around everywhere and being around some of it can be disconcerting, even in a large Pickup

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    Hillbilly engineering
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    It looks like the turn-circle might scrape the walls of a 747 hangar.
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    Naa i'll pass...
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    I wonder just how much "flex" is in that frame??
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    Hopefully enough for it to completely fold and disappear in a ditch


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocketman 2012 View Post
    The Slingshot scares me! It looks like a death trap. At least on a motorcycle or Spyder, one could abandon ship if need be! The thing is so low to the ground that I really don't think that most cage drivers would even see it. My Dodge Ram, Big Horn, 400HP, Hemi powered 4x4 could easily run over the entire vehicle at idle in 4 wheel drive. I have a farm in a rural area, with lots of Agri machinery driving around everywhere and being around some of it can be disconcerting, even in a large Pickup

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    I sat on a Slingshot last year just to get the feel of it, it is hard to get in but even harder to get out, also been 3 inches off the ground looks scary, seems like if i saw a small rock on the road i would be worried about my arse being scratched

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    If HD did make a Can Am style bike they would out sell BRP's all time sales in 2 years or less, just because it's a HD.
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    Harley isn't ready to bring out the Penster...
    They are a very traditional Company, and their Tri-Glide and Free-Wheel cater to their perceived market perfectly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Denman View Post
    Harley isn't ready to bring out the Penster...
    They are a very traditional Company, and their Tri-Glide and Free-Wheel cater to their perceived market perfectly.
    No way in the world that a person can ride a Herley 3 wheeler as agressive as we can ride the Spyders, my wife wont let me ride hers no more , she says i'm gonna break it!! ( The spyder)

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