- will comment since i have both styles of bikes (a FLSTC and the C14).
- the C14 is simply (far and away) a better handling and safer bike , at any speed , compared to the Harley. The combination of good ABS'ed brakes and traction control, decent suspension and good rubber all conspire to assist the rider to make that corner or change that line , or do that velocity or bring the speed down safely/quickly.
- the FLSTC , on the other hand , will conspire to send you into the weeds if you even try to do the same speeds or lines which you wouldn't even notice as being out of the ordinary on the C14.
- braking is poor , handling is poor , heaven forbid if you hit some mid-corner undulations with the Hd , you'd thing that there was an extra sprung swingarm in the middle of the bike. The front end does its thing, the rear does it own thing , you just hang the hell on.
- i also cannot understand the comment earlier that cruiser riders are "more skilled". I bought the FLSTC first (had her for 5 years) and then bought the C14. I learned more on the C14 in 6 months about how to ride properly than the entire 5 years I had on the FLSTC.
- the difference in handling/performance and skill levels required on both bikes are so far apart that I would question anyone who even thinks that a rider on a cruiser is necessarily more "skilled". Maybe more skilled in grinding floorboards and praying hard as the bike inches past the trailer in an overtake ... perhaps, but surely not a more complete rider.
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