Harley FXR for sale
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SELLER SAYS: 1989 1340cc Harley-Davidson FXR-P for sale. Owned for over 20 years, with two previous owners – Western Australian police and a business colleague. Been a pleasure owning and riding this classic Harley. Looking for a buyer who will appreciate the history and riding pleasure. Safety upgrades to be seen and heard – braided brake hoses, subtle LED headlight & rear light, bullet driving lights [front – white LED, rear – red LED and amber turn signal] and Vance & Hines exhaust [original exhaust still with me]. Serviced and maintained by Mick Hatch of Hog House Perth, Western Australia, throughout my ownership. Now 91,000km (from 76,223km in July 2003). Full road registration in Western Australia. Always garaged, only dry weather riding, never been dropped. Rode in many Perth Toy Runs. Turns heads – colour and originality. Fitted with air horns – Jingle Bells for Toy Runs. Can remove them or keep for your enjoyment. Electric starter with trickle charger. Depending on where you are located my bike will have a full service before handover. This is a rare find. If you want to own a piece of Harley history, contact Rave on 0407 089 861 (Perth, Western Australia).
EDITOR TERLICK SAYS: Most motorcycle buffs know that the British motorcycle industry got pummelled by Japanese manufacturers in the early 1970s. Young Brits were already into Jap bikes — small ones — and most of the Pommy bikes of the day left a bit to be desired in build quality, reliability and oil-tightness. So when the CB750 (and then others) arrived, British bike buyers jumped on the bandwagon straight away. But it wasn’t that way in America. The Yanks had not embraced the little-Jap-bikes so much, and generally stayed loyal to Harley-Davidson. It took almost a decade for Japanese bikes to get a good grip in the American market and it wasn’t until the ’80s rolled around that HD HQ really got worried. The American response was to stick with the tried-and-true big V-twin cruiser so loved by buyers, but make it a whole bunch more sporty with a new frame designed by (among others) a young Harley engineer who was a road racer. His name? Eric Buell. The ‘new’ Harley was the FXR. At the time, many Harley fans didn’t like them at all. They were “too Japanese”. And even worse (or perhaps even better) it had Norton Commando-style rubberised engine mounts, reducing Harley’s ground-shaking vibration to a modest 3.5 on the Richter scale. Now, the FXR is considered by some as the greatest Harley line of them all and highly collectible. The P version (FXR-P) was the police-spec version, and is especially sought-after. Read more at https://deadbeatcustoms.com/blog/history-of-the-harley-davidson-fxr/
