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Well, I finally made the move to getting another Harley. My first bike was a 2006 HD Sportster 883XL converted to 1200 and had all the extra stuff that I could manage to put into the bike. After a long and drawn out divorce, I had to let the Sporty go back to the bank. A short time later I paid $1200 cash for an 06 M50 (blue bike pictured below) and kept it for nearly two years. I enjoyed the M50 but it was not nearly big enough, or comfy enough for me and the old lady. So I decided to see about trading it in during the 2012 Northwest Arkansas Bikes Blues & BBQ event at our local HD facility in Rogers Arkansas.
I went to the shop and asked them to appraise my M50 and nearly passed out when they came out and said "Ok, we will give you $3900 for the trade." So for nearly $2,600 more than what I paid for the bike a total of $3900 was taken off of the cost of the 01 FLHRCI. With the trade in taken off of the $7999 for the FLHRCI, it left me with a remaining balance of just over $4k. My new bike has 38k miles, and has all of the extra gear that I would want on the bike. The shop said the only reason they were selling it for that price was because it needed one new rear tire and new front brakes & rotors. While I was test driving it, I swung into another nearby motorcycle shop and had the owner there check the FLHRCI and was told that it was in amazing condition aside from the tire and brakes. I went back to Harley and managed to talk them into putting a new rear tire on it for me for free, but will need to replace my front pads & rotors myself. I did not get an owner's manual unfortunately, which leaves me with a few questions about this bike:
1. Does any one know of a way to download the manual for this bike?
2. Brake question, does this bike take floating or non floating rotors?
AND...
3. Does anyone know of a good & affordable front fairing (speaker ready) set up? Where could I get one? I have checked out JP Cycles and ebay but haven't really found a lot of options.
I appreciate any help you guys & or gals can provide me!
Thanks
Michael
I went to the shop and asked them to appraise my M50 and nearly passed out when they came out and said "Ok, we will give you $3900 for the trade." So for nearly $2,600 more than what I paid for the bike a total of $3900 was taken off of the cost of the 01 FLHRCI. With the trade in taken off of the $7999 for the FLHRCI, it left me with a remaining balance of just over $4k. My new bike has 38k miles, and has all of the extra gear that I would want on the bike. The shop said the only reason they were selling it for that price was because it needed one new rear tire and new front brakes & rotors. While I was test driving it, I swung into another nearby motorcycle shop and had the owner there check the FLHRCI and was told that it was in amazing condition aside from the tire and brakes. I went back to Harley and managed to talk them into putting a new rear tire on it for me for free, but will need to replace my front pads & rotors myself. I did not get an owner's manual unfortunately, which leaves me with a few questions about this bike:
1. Does any one know of a way to download the manual for this bike?
2. Brake question, does this bike take floating or non floating rotors?
AND...
3. Does anyone know of a good & affordable front fairing (speaker ready) set up? Where could I get one? I have checked out JP Cycles and ebay but haven't really found a lot of options.
I appreciate any help you guys & or gals can provide me!
Thanks
Michael



