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I've been a sport bike rider for 3 years, once had a shadow 750 which was really nice, but ended up missing sport bikes so went back to them, now I miss the more relaxed riding and to just enjoy cruising around. I've looked at Harleys, specifically dynas like the low rider and superglide, but they're so expensive it's crazy, and not that reliable. I also really like the look of the rebel 500, but fear i'd find it too underwhelming, I love the fact it's super customisable though. The rebel 1100 is also way too pricey, none under 10000, so at this price I'd just take a Harley. I looked at the shadow 1100 but not much choice around me and they're a bit less my style. I don't really like the look of the vulcans. So yeah if anyone has ideas/suggestions for cruiser that I might not know about or haven't thought about, I'd be grateful, because I really miss riding. The budget is around 6k $ CAD.

TL;DR: need suggestions for cruisers that fit rebel, dyna style but isn't crazy expensive and has enough power to have fun.

I've seen a lot of good reviews on bowtex, usually older reviews and most about the base layers, I want to share my experience so people can have a clear idea of what could happen to them. I live in Canada and bought the optimal leggings from them, on their site it says no delivery fees for over 150€ package, what I bought was at 230€ about 370$CAD so more than enough to have free shipping, but it didn't, they charged me a fee of 26$USD Wich I had no choice to accept, and said it's because I'm overseas and free shipping doesn't apply for this, which I could kind of understand I guess, and through all that I was messaging them by email and they were responding super fast. Then when the shipping started, after a few days, UPS asks me to pay them 75$ more to deliver it, I always hated UPS and was reminded why with this, but then I tried to contact bowtex to cancel the order, because it was just becoming not worth it anymore with all the fees and etc, but they just ghosted me, throughout 3 days I emailed them again and again and they just never answered. So if ever you're buying from overseas, be careful and learn from me. (Yes I guess this is kind of a rent, but oh well)

I've had a ninja300, a Yamaha fz6r, a Honda Shadow750, a Yamaha fz8 and a Suzuki sv650s, so I'm used to various motorcycles, mostly sportier ones, and I've been going from smaller to "bigger" bikes. I'm interested in the rebel 500 or in cruisers in general, but was wondering if the rebel would be a bit too underwhelming for me, I do a lot of highway btw. Thanks

Edit: unfortunately the rebel 1100 isn't an option for me, way out of budget, as are most Harleys. And I'd really like to focus on the rebel 500 not suggestions for shadow 1100 or vstar etc thanks y'all