hey mike,
i actually have my buddie's indian in my garage and am riding that while i figure this out. that's why i am being an old woman about it all since i have time. i was thinking of chopping my VC down to a street bike and putting a springer front end on until i just rode the indian to Albuquerque and up into Colorado and back through Monument Valley. It was all good until the last day of hard riding through the desert back to Pheonix. Almost lost a saddlebag, did lose a highway peg, and will probably spend this weekend just tightening every bolt on the thing. Man did i miss my BD for the ground covering legs of that trip. of course evryone always ogles the indian (its one of the first numbered 1100 in '99) and always catches everyone's eye. so...after that trip of putting parts back on and as long as i live 400 miles from the nearest destinations i think i will keep the BD as a road bike.