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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind... blah, blah, blah. (With apologies to WS)
So, I wandered into my local HD dealership and sitting there as the bike that got me interested in the shark two years ago - the 2013 RGC CVO in Roman Gold/Emerald. I'd never seen one in person and it's even better looking than what I drooled over online.
It's pretty much dead mint with 8 k miles on it. I've been working with a salesman and we've got some decent numbers going. They came down on their price, give me very good money for my '13 RGC, threw in 3 more years of warranty and 10 years of maintenance. I can afford it but it's a lot of money, a higher payment for a longer time, blah, blah, blah.
I know all the argument for and against CVO's. What I'm looking for here I guess is feedback from CVO owners, especially 2013 CVO owners, about their experiences with theirs. Love it? Hate it? Would you do it over?
A couple concerns I have is the windshield - although it's different than the stock thumbnail I assume it's still a buffeting machine. I have the Mad Stad on mine and love that. I'm stripping all the goodies from my bike so I could put the Mad Stad on the CVO (I assume) but wonder how that will look. Also, I have come to really like having a driver's back rest. It doesn't look like my Mustang setup will work with the stock CVO seat. I would be taking my Hammock off the current bike but like the Mad Stad wonder about the look. With my current bike I'm more about function of looks but with the CVO it's such a great looking bike that I worry I might be bummed about changing things out too much. Then there's the handle bars. I put Heritage bars on mine (those will stay) but what about the CVO bars? They seem to be more like the Heritage bars anyway - are they?
Here's some direct questions for CVO owners:
How is/was the buffeting with your stock windshield?
Did you change your windshield?
Have you ever tried the Mad Stad on your CVO and if you did can you post photos?
Can you put a back rest on the CVO with the stock seat?
Did you change bars? Are the stock bars close to the Heritage bars?
And anything else you can provide would be great. I've talked to a few CVO owners that I've run into here and there in person and they mostly loved their bikes. One guy did say he recently sold his CVO because he just found he spent too much time cleaning it because he didn't want to leave a mark on it. I clean my bike regularly but I'm not militant about it.
So many considerations. I'm not interested in the argument about paying so much for a CVO when you can just customize your own for all that extra money and have something truly unique. I've done all I'll ever do to mine except for putting on a Stage One at some point and maybe some better shocks and front forks.
Thanks in advance for opinions from CVO owners, past or present!
So, I wandered into my local HD dealership and sitting there as the bike that got me interested in the shark two years ago - the 2013 RGC CVO in Roman Gold/Emerald. I'd never seen one in person and it's even better looking than what I drooled over online.
It's pretty much dead mint with 8 k miles on it. I've been working with a salesman and we've got some decent numbers going. They came down on their price, give me very good money for my '13 RGC, threw in 3 more years of warranty and 10 years of maintenance. I can afford it but it's a lot of money, a higher payment for a longer time, blah, blah, blah.
I know all the argument for and against CVO's. What I'm looking for here I guess is feedback from CVO owners, especially 2013 CVO owners, about their experiences with theirs. Love it? Hate it? Would you do it over?
A couple concerns I have is the windshield - although it's different than the stock thumbnail I assume it's still a buffeting machine. I have the Mad Stad on mine and love that. I'm stripping all the goodies from my bike so I could put the Mad Stad on the CVO (I assume) but wonder how that will look. Also, I have come to really like having a driver's back rest. It doesn't look like my Mustang setup will work with the stock CVO seat. I would be taking my Hammock off the current bike but like the Mad Stad wonder about the look. With my current bike I'm more about function of looks but with the CVO it's such a great looking bike that I worry I might be bummed about changing things out too much. Then there's the handle bars. I put Heritage bars on mine (those will stay) but what about the CVO bars? They seem to be more like the Heritage bars anyway - are they?
Here's some direct questions for CVO owners:
How is/was the buffeting with your stock windshield?
Did you change your windshield?
Have you ever tried the Mad Stad on your CVO and if you did can you post photos?
Can you put a back rest on the CVO with the stock seat?
Did you change bars? Are the stock bars close to the Heritage bars?
And anything else you can provide would be great. I've talked to a few CVO owners that I've run into here and there in person and they mostly loved their bikes. One guy did say he recently sold his CVO because he just found he spent too much time cleaning it because he didn't want to leave a mark on it. I clean my bike regularly but I'm not militant about it.
So many considerations. I'm not interested in the argument about paying so much for a CVO when you can just customize your own for all that extra money and have something truly unique. I've done all I'll ever do to mine except for putting on a Stage One at some point and maybe some better shocks and front forks.
Thanks in advance for opinions from CVO owners, past or present!