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Mids.

Oem style bars. Mustang solo seat. The seat is about the same size and shape as the OEM solo but the foam was pretty much shot in the original so I replaced it.

The mid pegs are OK for me, but I'm short. Anyone tall might find the seat peg distance a little cramped and prefer forwards.

Ive never ridden one, only sat on one. But i spend an unfortunate ammount of time at stoplights living in chicago. May I ask why the dry sump makes it difficult to check the oil? Ive never heard of that before (i actually just googled the difference between wet and dry sump to understand what you meant)

Srinath, thank you for your comments about the Bolt, I've toyed with the idea of getting one, but as far as I can see, the only advantage over the S40/Savage, higher top speed, grossly illegal where I live, and more grunt for overtaking.

The V star 950 vibrated a lot ?

That's what I remember reading, there was a lot about it that I liked.  They said as you approach 70 it became very noticeable.  I was looking to do some moderate touring and I ended up passing on it.  I bought a V-Strom 650 a couple years later and that is a phenomenal motorcycle.

Best regards,

BTW the one thing that Yamaha got absolutely spot on for all the 950 motors and even the 1700 and those raiders etc is that belt drive. The 650 and 1100 Vstar had that retarded exposed shaft, that thing will leak, rust and lead to a lot of crap from owners. They went to belt and just freaking nailed it.
The second thing is - and this is specific to the SCR, aluminum rims, spoked wheels and they sold these rims as an "accessory" to the bolt for 3 yrs for almost 3K before it got "standard" on the SCR. Rear is a 17 and 19 front with trail tires that literally wear like freaking iron, but its a 17", 150 wide tires are available to suit every mood you can have with those. They could have fit a 17" up front too, and I might use one of the GR rims I got lying about and lace it if I ever get the skills to do it, but till then I'm happy with these tires that don't seem to wear, and they grip well due to their massive teeth tread pattern, even in rain, they're very good.
The best part - I bought a set of bolt wheels for $150 - direct bolt on, have 15 and 19 cast wheels with a choice of cruiser tires, so if I want to, I can swap entire wheel sets day to day. I used to do that for the GS500, but was more of a wheel loaner service when one of my local custo-friends was going to put tires on his bike, I'd loan out wheels and get their wheels in exchange, usually I'll be doing both the wheel swap as well as taking the thing to the bike shop to fit tires, I made some $$ on the side.

But the whole wheel swap idea is very very cool and appealing to me.

Cool.
Srinath.

Neither one, stock. But the Savage starts out 150 pounds lighter than the Sporty, and can be made 200 pounds less without an insane amount of money. Jesus Christ on a bet couldn't make a Sportster in the low 300's.

Thank you for that. I've seen and am a big fan of the frijole. Perhaps my question wasnt as clear as it could have been. I meant if forced to choose between both vehicles stock, which would you take and why?