2014 HD's out on their Web Page

Yeah... lol...JMHO,I'd want to have the skills pretty much developed before I bought a $20-$35,000 motosickle,like on a second or third hand $5000 cop bikethen you practice occasionally to keep the skills sharp and the odds of dumping the high dollar bike are quite a bit less,never 100% gone,but reduced significantly...
BTW the "Ride Like A Pro" video's are excellent and would be a great tool for teaching newbies,but not on a brand new bike,'cause you are gonna go down

Yeah, that is very impressive riding. I don't think there are many who can ride like that - no matter what kind of bike. I practice in vacant parking lots from time to time; mostly U-turns and weaving between the parking spaces.

I noticed he was always looking ahead to where he wanted the bike to go.

Were ever the head goes the bike will travel .never look down ! Head up back strait shoulders square . Never fails.you can ride at a crawling speed on a bagger and it will feel like a dirt bike.
.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. It seems we are in a day and age where rocking the twisties is preferred and you're the odd guy out if you don't.

I've watched a bunch of those ride like a pro video's and learned a bunch from them, especially the look where you want to go part was very helpful.

Riding a course with low speed manuevers is one thing and hitting the twisties at a high rate of speed is vastly different. The 2 don't go together. Inertia and gravity are a MF'er no matter how many video's you watch,lol. That where "going over the highside" came from.

Moral of the story if you don't speed thru the corners there'll be no need to ride like a pro. I prefer to ride like the person whose enjoying his/her ride.

I did watch the dragons tail video a while ago and agree that knowledge is power.

I was taught to take the inside of the corners and I think the video instructs to take the outside with the reasoning that you'll have more road to work with when you come out..unless I understood wrong.

Either way when winding thru some twisties I am on high alert and using every available tool and pearl of wisdom I have accrued over the years. A lot of deceleration on the throttle in the corners keeps the damage to a minimum so far. Looking where you want to go is invaluable too.

Having recently (Tuesday) come out of a high speed twisty deal I def pushed the comfort zone on too many occasions that day. I have this innate sense of dread that starts coming on just before something bad happens. Whenever I felt that I deccelled off the throttle, stayed in the moment and focused. Like I mentioned the speed limit was 30-40mph this guy leading was 60-70MPG +. Had I even remotely attempted to stay up it with him it would have ended badly and he wouldn't have cared.

First and last time letting him lead. Probably last time riding with him.

Since 2007 and when the last child was gone I have thus far successfully made it to Nova Scotia, Outer Banks, San Diego,Pigeon Forge, Key West, Marble Falls,AR and various other distant locations safely with that strategy.

+1

Yeah but did you notice the large amount of exposed wiring harness behind the passenger seat lying on top of the fender..how'd you like that? That bugged me. And then on the Limited water cooled among other new parts is a water pump........

I always kick back . . . what's the hurry? I rode that way when I was a young man, too. But I sometimes like going faster (within the speed limit) on straightaways. So it takes longer to get somewhere. So what. I get there when I get there.