jmillheiser wrote:most of my info on harleys has come from harley owners (admittedly some of them dont know jack about their bikes).
Obviously.
jmillheiser wrote:IIRC the softtail and electra glide series have em, not sure about the dyna, and the road king does not.
Only the Softail series has the TC88B (counterbalanced) motor. Everything else has the TC88A (rubber mount), except for the Sportster which has its own rubber mount system and motor. The Dyna series just went to a new rubber mount system, new FI system and a new 6-speed trans, these bits will probably show up on the rest of the lineup within a couple years.
I ended up parked beside a guy on what I believed was a sportster at a light recently. The poor engine was vibrating so hard I thought it was going to shake itself out of the frame.
Rubber mounts seemed to be doing a good job though, the bike didn't shake much at all. And when he was in motion it looked pretty smooth. Still I've never seen an engine bounce around that much.
Of course I'm generalizing from a single example here, but everyone does that. At least I do.
I was talking to the dealer here in Baghdad yesterday and found out that harley is not going to have any carbs on the 2007 Big V Twins and they have no word of the six speed trans or the 200mm tire but he did say that it was very possible due to the popularity and the request for the bigger tire and trans.
2007 fatboys will have the 200mm tires like the CVO in 2006. All Big twins will have 6 speeds, the primary chain tensioners and hydrolic cam chain tensioners just like the 2006 dynas. All bike and yes that means sportster will be EFI. There will be a Springer Cvo. Seen some thing refered to as a bearingless wheel but havent figured that out or seen any details.
Harley will tipically test new ideas out on one model range to make sure it all works before moving to upgrade the entire range. Last year the first dyna transmissions were recalled. This effected a couple thousand bikes. the recall was for a neutral problem and the fix was a new shift drum and shift detent. If they would have had this transmission on all big twins it would have been very expensive recall! Its all good now. Dynas are the lowest selling big twin range so any problems would have been smaller. Buell sales are very few and really is HDs first test bed.
2007 fatboys will have the 200mm tires like the CVO in 2006. All Big twins will have 6 speeds, the primary chain tensioners and hydrolic cam chain tensioners just like the 2006 dynas. All bike and yes that means sportster will be EFI. There will be a Springer Cvo. Seen some thing refered to as a bearingless wheel but havent figured that out or seen any details.