I'll bet you used to be about two inches taller before you started riding those evil old hardtails 300,000 miles ago. I've ridden 'em just enough to know that my lower back dosen't like 'em. Some of my 1%'er buds that rode rigids back in the day swore by 'em at the time. They're all riding baggers now. I'm kinda in the middle with my tight and right FXR but even with the $500 shocks on the rear when I hit one of those famous California Pot Holes dead center my first thought is always, "I gotta get a Bagger!".
My second thougt is always, "Na-h-h-h. The pain's already subsiding...."
Gotta go with frisco on this one. I spent 17 years on a rigid pan and the only reason It's gone is because of my back. That bike rode and handled like a dream, cept' them bad roads.
Michigan weight laws allows the heaviest trucks in the country on our roads and you can sure tell! So there ain't many daily rider rigid frames still around and the ones that are seem to be ridden by young guys...and they'll learn!
I owned five rigids, 4 pans and one 45 before gettin my first new harley in 70. My pop was a mechanic and all during high school and junior college I was buying, fixing and selling junkers that could be picked up here in Ala cheap before Easyriders came out. I have always loved bikes, and still own the old nightrain, wish I had kept that ugly ass seat though. On gas tanks, I run a sprint 3.0 gal. It mounts just like the 3.6 and is easily removable for work and cleaning. It also doesn't crack and leak eventually like every set of old style fatbobs I ever owned. Put it on until I could afford new fatbobs. That was twenty yrs. ago. Function over appearance seems to be an obsolete concept. If you cant make a shovel bulletproof (and I cant seem to) make it easy to fix.
Kind of sad, used to hear this question answered in a matter of seconds. HD riders were always in touch with the history of their machines. Not so much, anymore. Good job, shovelmike!
but FYI it's spelled "frigid" vs "rigid"...duh !!!
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