Hi All,

I found this forum by accident surfing around the net looking for a part so I thought I better join up and say "Hello"..

The story...

It's alway been a passion of mine to own a Harley for the past 15 years and I promised myself that I would get one this year.

I went into the local Harley Dealer about 3 months back and sat on a Softail standard just to see if there were no problems with my seating position and it was all good and on the way out the door I spied the FXSTC 105th anniversary model, took an instant liking and went on my merry way. Little did I realise that I grew more and more passionate with this model and decided that this was the Bike I wanted.

Then I did my back in at work about 2 months ago and had to go to a Birthday party for a friend and stopped off at the Harley Dealers to get him a present, on the way out I enquired about where the showroom 105th was and was told that it was sold the day before, they had a Ex-demo 105th that was for sale at a reduced price "as is", now I was left with a decision, go for my dream bike or let it slip by...

Well, I ended up with my dream bike, the dealer dropped it off at my place seeing as my back was still bad and I managed to get 2 x 10 minutes rides in before rego ran out ( it only had 2 weeks of rego left) and no money at the moment to renew rego or do the transfer fees  

BUT I HAVE MY DREAM BIKE!!!!!   

So now I'm "Poor, Sore, but happy to the Core"

P.S. I joined the U.S. HD Forum before I found this one..

Cool Hidiho , good to have ya here and enjoy ya stay .

just watch out for all the SUSS dude's in here , you'll get to know who they are..........................

Congrats on the new bike and welcome to the forum

Thats a good story Hidiho,

Congrats on the bike and I hope you back is ok soon and you have enough $$$$ to get the bike back on the road

Hi there hidiho... welcome to the forum and hope that you have the funds to keep up the rego before your back is good again

G'day m8, bad news about the back, but great news about the bike, summers coming so ya have time to get the rego done in time for the best riding weather.

OH BTW

welcome to the forum

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the warm welcomes.

Yeap, having a stuffed back isn't much joy but it has slightly improved over the past 2 months ( either that or I'm just learning to bear with the pain better) . I'm due to have a MRI in just over a week to see what the actual damage is and then go from there.

Riding the bike wasn't too bad considering it was 15 years since I sold my last bike (an XJ650T that I went for my leaners on) and with an injury as well, in actual fact it was much more comfortable on the bike than driving the car... Oh well, will just have to get cracking on getting this rego sorted out.

Anyway I popped some pictures of my baby in the "Softail" section under the "Softail Custom pics" thread if you care to have a gander, I'm going to keep her pretty stock for a while with the exception of a rear luggage rack as soon as rego is out of the way.

Thanks all for well wishes.

Cheers

Hidiho

Gr8 story hidiho, keeping the dream alive, awesome stuff

enjoy the forums hidiho, nice bike 

A belated welcome mate (been away touring Aus) Enjoy your stay at the nuthouse.

Regards Bob