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Great bike!

Great bike! 
Andy said 2003-02-25 18:29 
 
This bike houses nearly the last of the great shovelhead engines. The FXR series would carry that engine for only one more year in the Super Glide and Low Glide. This is a similar but much better bike than the comparable Low Rider or Super Glide I models. The (FXR series) Super Glide II and Low Glide eschewed the use of dual belt drive technology (extremely flaky stuff at the time -- at least in the primary), preferring to be the test bed for the 5-speed tranny and rubber engine mount system. The 5-speed is a beast! It´s tough as nails with a much more robust design than any of the long-running 4-speed boxes before it. The rubber engine mounts were a big hokey and overly complex, but they worked and effectively isolated the most intrusive of the shovel´s vibes. Combine the two with the beloved FXR-series frame and you have a very sporty big inch machine that is also very comfortable on the open road. There´s no running the **** out of the engine for lack of a higher gear because the overall gearing can be higher (due to the wider selection of ratios in the transmission). There´s no vibrating your boots off the pegs or boards because of the rubber engine mounts. So, you get the best (at the time) of the available technologies used on the EVO´s to come without losing the ability to work on engine yourself or the nearly infinite "rebuildability" of the shovel. Great stuff! 
 
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