First look: 2004 Harley Sportster 1200 and 883

The eradication of vibration is especially important to the 883cc machines because you need to rev them because they have less power than the 1200s. Accelerating onto the freeway, I actually hit the rev limiter in second -- something I have rarely done on earlier XLs because the vibration almost forced you to shift to escape it -- and in third. When spun up that hard there is some buzz in the footpegs and the handlebar, but it no longer makes you want to break away as you would from a joy buzzer. And the seat, which is adequately wide but slightly thin, never buzzed me at all.