What era Harley should I be lookin at.

In reply to wearymicrobe :

Progress is progress. 

300+ miles in and I am 100% able to move the bike around the way I want to. I really like this thing I need to make one small change and that is the seat. I keep sliding off the back, just needs some texture or a deeper cut or something to keep me planted., seat is also to wide at the thigh and rubs something terrible. 

In reply to wearymicrobe :

The HD dealer in my neck of the woods has a large selection of "demo seats" for people to try out before buying.

If yours has the same, might not be a bad way to shop a few and figure out what you need.

So got frustrated with the Harley in the last couple weeks. Up to about 1500 miles on it so far. Miss my grom. Harley still some low speed issues, still a bit of wobble on the freeway. Decided that it need to go or needed to be made better. Worst of all is I have test ridden a few newer ones and they are really good bikes. Figured it had to be me, age or setup. 

• So put even stronger silencer inserts in the exhaust. 
• Drained the front shock fluid out and replaced it with heavy duty SE upgraded fluid. 
  • Old fluid came out dark brown and looked like thin E36 M3. 
• Played with the air pressure in the tires once I got the bike warmed up. 
• Greased the front bearings. 
  • Kid you not it took almost a whole tube. 
• Sat on a few at the dealership that I had test ridden on a demo day and liked and measured my triangle. 
  • Ended up bringing the handle bars up 3-4 inches. 
  • Changed the angle of the clutch and brakes. 
• New front pads that were listed as "progressive" in feel on amazon, duel compound pad. 
  • Flushed fluid.

Its a whole new bike now. So much easier to ride and control. Mostly due to the front end not diving like a soccer player and the rise in grip height giving me more leverage. Plus tire pressure.  Also its now loud but not so loud that I am an embarrassment. 

Couple more thousand miles on the bike. Added boss bags, upgraded a few touch points.  
 

may get traded in on a Electra Glide revival this weekend. Borrowed a friends 21 street glide and it's just a better package for not a lot out of pocket for me  

if I don't get the revival I am going to have this one custom painted and add a street glide fairing and have boss make me a bunch of leather accessories for it so I can go all vicla out. May just keep it and get the steeet glide and do that anyway .

riding four or five days a week to cut down on traffic and keep my commute short and it really helps my quality of life not to sit in 9 miles of traffic everyday that sometimes take an hour to get though on bad days