Fat Bob First Impressions

Flew through my first tank of fuel on the fatty, loving it already.

Here are some of my first impressions

• I forgot how awesome self cancelling indicators were, I can't believe the Beemer doesn't have this
• The independent turn signals switches (1 on each bar) took little to get used to
• Raising my feet to the forward controls when I take of took no getting used to
• The rear shocks are woeful, possibly they have no preload set on them but I need a special spanner to adjust them, it'll be easier to throw the new set on.
• The note of the exhaust is great
• The vibrations shake my eyeballs in their sockets but its worth it.
• Tilting the bars forward made a massive difference
• I believe the previous owner was female (or a dude with werewolf nails)
• The bike had never been ridden in corners, the rear tyre was not fully scrubbed in. A fact I discovered mid corner in the wet.
• The new mustang 'smooth' wide tripper seems to be more firm that my old diamond stitched wide trippers were.
• The bike pops quite a bit on deceleration. The filter and tuner should remedy this for the most part.
• While slightly more difficult to 'tip in' to corners once in the frontend is confidence insppiritng
• After getting off the beemer the Fatty feels really low. It feels weird looking up at cars rather than down.