what up guys it's adrian from YouMotorcycle and in today's video i'm going to be talking
to you guys about 10 things that i miss about my harley davidson sportster, so if you're
shopping around looking for a sportster this might be a good video for you to check out,
also my next one is going to be about 10 things i don't miss about this bike so yeah stay tuned for
that. so the first thing i miss about my sporty is that because my sportster was rubber mounted
in the frame which i think was after 2004 and up, the motor actually vibrated in the frame
which looked really cool, so the bike would be settled planted at a red light whatever, and the
motor would just vibrate inside the frame, later year sportsters the whole bike will kind of shake
but when you have the rubber mounted ones it just shakes within the frame and i thought that looked
totally cool. the second thing i missed about my sportster is that there is an accessories catalog
the size of a phone book. after the sportster i went to other bikes including a suzuki boulevard
m50 and including a harley-davidson v rod and there was just no parts, like extra goodies in
compared to how much stuff you can add onto a sportster. of course the third thing i missed
was just that sound of like the sportster just sounds amazing you know it when you hear it
and even though i have a v-rod and it's a harley, it doesn't sound as good as a sporty does. if
you're looking at 2007 up sportsters they're going to come with fuel injection which is is great
before that you can actually get them tuned pretty well with kits and stuff, if you have a carbureted
model i strongly recommend doing a stage one kit, i have a video all about how to do that i
will link to it up here somewhere, but the fuel injection really has a nice touch. another nice
touch is that 90 of the sportsters you're ever gonna see probably even more than that are gonna
have a rear disc brake which is actually kind of still a little hard to find on middleweight
cruisers like this one. another thing i loved about the sportster was that i didn't really
have to try and make it match my character. some people put decals of their favorite sports team
or skulls and flames and that kind of stuff and i never really had to try and make the sportster
be more like me because it just the bike has so much character of its own that yeah why mess with
it? great personality on this machine. and this right here was another thing that i missed about
my sportster it had a nice low seat height when i had it i was a university student and it was
really easy to say to girls hey have you ever been on a harley before? and then i'd pull up
on my sportster and they could easily get on off the seat. it was great good memories good times.
another thing that i miss is that bmw riders for whatever reason just pretend like you don't exist.
i was invisible to them they would never wave back at me. any other bike i've ever been on i've never
had that experience but for some reason bmw guys just cannot handle seeing you on your sportster.
i don't know what's up with that if you know leave me a comment down there somewhere. going
back to the mufflers and the sound i used to live in a basement apartment when i had my sporty and
i sometimes had the girls living upstairs having some very wild late nights and the nice thing was
that in the morning when i had to go to work i made sure that i woke them up nice and early.
so i guess you could say whether or not you believe loud pipes save lives we
can all agree that loud pipes really help you make your point. see this right here?
if you know you know belt drive. honestly i love belt drive more than chain or shaft i love that
shaft is very low maintenance but guess what? so is belt drive. i love that on chain you can
adjust your sprockets different sizing to affect your your gear ratios and how your bike's gonna
accelerate, what your top speed will be. guess what? you can change the pulleys on a belt drive
and do that too. i feel like belt drives really gives you the advantage of both the other drive
systems and minimal disadvantage. every time i have to adjust the chain on another motorcycle
i always think man, why didn't they just put a belt on this? and last but not least i love that
there are so many different ways to customize it. unless it's stock you'll never see two bikes that
are perfectly identical if they're sportsters. people are always finding different little ways
to modify them whether it's a little $20 tidbit here or you could easily go into
thousands of dollars worth of mods there's a ton of stuff you can do to make this bike your own.
it's it's a great fun little machine. if you like this video please give it a thumbs up my next
video is going to be on 10 things that i do not miss about this bike because bear in mind while
it's a great motorcycle they've been making these things since 1957. they have been continually
improving it since 1957. that does not mean that the sportster is a perfect machine okay?it's not
there are 10 things i definitely do not miss about this bike and we're going to cover that
in the next video. ride safe guys thank you guys so much for watching if you want to see that video
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