Posted on 02/04/2009 12:52:55 PM PST by martin_fierro
Honda Fury bike stirs up a storm Out this spring, it will cost about $13,000
By Matt Degen of The Orange County (Calif.) Register
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Honda has just introduced a motorcycle that looks about as far from a Honda as one could imagine.
The 2010 Fury was unveiled at the New York International Motorcycle Show, and it’s already creating some serious waves.
“The Fury opens the door to the most extreme level of custom looks,” the company said. “But once you’re rolling, the Fury experience is all about that special bond between rider and machine.” The bike will be available in March or April and will retail for “around $13,000,” according to Bill Savino, manager of motorcycle press at American Honda.
Savino said the company’s test-riders have said that “the neat thing about the motorcycle is it gives you that sense of going back: It’s simple, it works and it handles well.”
Honda will offer an array of accessories for customizing the bike, as will outside companies such as Cobra.
What remains to be seen is whether motorcycling enthusiasts embrace a chopper made by Honda.
“You always have the naysayers,” Savino said, “but … what we’ve heard the most, is, ‘Why (make) a chopper now? It died off five years ago.’
“We don’t believe that. … A chopper has never been made by a major manufacturer, and it’s never been made at a reasonable price.
“There is this younger generation that has a CBR600 or 1000 in their garage and wanted a weekend cruiser. Now we are giving them something to go after.”
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>>>All the Japanese bikes do is start easily, run well, and require little to no maintenance.<<<
And rust well, tumble in value well, plastic fades well, pot metal rots well, and dis-similar metal bolt-to-parts corrode together while sitting in the crates as they are shipped over here.
And best of all...
They make the riders look like the absolute best HD-wanna-be posers REAL well.
Interesting...if HD was such a bad deal, why is it that the Japs try so hard to make a bike to compete with them? You’ll notice that HD doesn’t even try to make the jap-crap lok-a-like bike. Speaks volumes. And the fellas who ride the Jap poser-bikes always seem to have to apologize on the road for buying a Jap bike. Heard it so many times it is a joke amoung HD owners. hehehe
Other than all that...yeah...jap bike-poser-cruiser-wanna-be-bikes are a great value for the money. They almost look like the real thing.
Almost.
BTW...I suspect that you ride the sue-sue-key because you could afford it. And every time you pull up by the HD at the light, you secretly admire it and wish you had chosen differnetly. Once you admit it, you’ll feel a lot better.
Or, better yet, before your plastic fenders fade, the pot metal rots and the chrome pits too badly on the sue-sue-key, why not trade it in for a beautiful Street Glide, or a Wide Glide. Your GF will thank you! Really! She will!
Because all the girls want to ride on a Harley.
...but on a sue-sue-key...um...
...not so much.
~wink~
ride safe
Globalists exist in all political stripes - call it the Wal Mart mentality.
The REAL reason that America’s economy is down is due to shipping all of our manufacturing base overseas to China and other slave labor economies. With all of our good manufacturing jobs gone, fewer Americans can afford to buy American products. We rely upon the housing market to supply any value added markup to products. So then what happens when houses become overpriced? Yup, we’re living that dream now.
Buy American. The job you save might just be your own.
That’s not protectionism, that’s how the free market works. The best value is not always the cheapest product.
Another Japanese Harley.
a 1968 Honda 90.
Harley doesn’t make a bike that looks like the Fury.
Yes, they took a look at the HD, saw that people liked the style, then improved the whole machine while keeping the price about half to two thirds of the HD.
Why have HD when you can have a better bike at less price?
UNLESS....it’s all about the name and not about the ride!
Ride a ‘97 FLHRI (Road King to non-Harleyites).
They’ll never make a rice-burner that doesn’t sound like a muffled lawn-mower.
“I told hubby (the great GOP_Harley_Guy) to keep them separated so we wouldn’t have little Sportsters popping up.”
You wish!
By the way, Harley is in trouble financially again. Too bad.
Hank
Not a Suzuki rider, but I sure don’t envy the Hardleys I leave in the dust on my 97 Valkyrie. Wink.
‘BTW...I suspect that you ride the sue-sue-key because you could afford it. And every time you pull up by the HD at the light, you secretly admire it and wish you had chosen differnetly. Once you admit it, you’ll feel a lot better.’
Actually, I grew up riding Benelli’s 50 cc mini bikes, won the Cavalcade of Custom’s mini bike division two years running with it. Moved on to Honda’s, then Kaw’s, and yep, today I own a Suzuki 1500 cc Intruder.
Brand new my Intruder cost me $9,990 from Jeff Wyler Suzuki. I had seriously considered the comparable Harley, but realized spending two times (minimum as you know) for it didn’t make sense, because I had been without a bike for about nine years, and wasn’t sure my wife and I would get ‘back into it’. My original thought was ‘ride it for a year, then go get a Harley’.
That was a mistake. I love the Intruder, its perfect for the riding I do ‘out here’. Great combination of cruiser and tour bike, mostly I cruise with friends - Harley riders all btw - but its got a great load capacity for the couple of road trips we’ve taken.
I’ve picked up all my Harley friends over the years after breakdowns, and when they call they always demand I pick em up with the Hummer, not make them ride ‘bitch’ on my Intruder....(chuckle)
Next comment...when we ride down to Ripley Ohio (on the river, a haven for bikers every weekend when the weather is right) I park along side all those expensive Harley’s.
And it never fails, we come out of the bar, and there are people looking at MY SUZUKI.
Its a running joke with my Harley bud’s.
I could easily afford any Harley, but why? I ride about 12,000 miles per year, most of rural and small town (Courthouse and a Square you know what I mean?). All it does is run well, look great, and never have a breakdown.
I admit, I’m not a wrench turner. Think Tom Cruise in ‘Thunder Road’. I ride em, but fixing them myself? I make Tim Taylor the Toolman look competent.....lol.
I have a large garage, so nope, no rusty. Yes, most is plastic, as opposed to steel used in Harleys, but hey thats why I saved well over 10K when I bought it. Had a good time with the left over cash, btw.
As for ‘if Harley’s are such a bad deal, why do the Japs try so hard to compete’...friend, Suzuki isn’t looking for a bailout, nor is Honda, nor is Kawaski.
Harley is. Again. Right now, they are thanking God Warren Buffet bought up their existing debt, for a 14% return on his investment, announced TODAY.
Last but not least, my wife, who has been with me for 25 years this month (21st Wedding Anniversary was December) and I had our first date on a Honda CB 750 (1983 model). She ‘thanked me’ for not spending 20k on a motorcycle. Then she REALLY thanked me after our first ride on the Intruder, if you get my drift.
As for ‘all the girls’ I drive a Hummer. I laugh at your view of what you think is a ‘chick magnet’.
And when they see me later on the Intruder, they realize I have a kick ass, bad ass bike, AND a kick ass, bad ass black and chrome Hummer.
I used to tell em ‘Sorry, if you ain’t sleepin with me, you don’t ride with me’...except they kept saying ‘And your point is what, big boy?’
Ain’t life great? Ride safe, friend.
‘but I sure don’t envy the Hardleys I leave in the dust on my 97 Valkyrie. Wink.’
A very bad bike, and yep, smokes the Harley easily.
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No, you were actually on track with your earlier comment by about 90%.
What gives Harleys that distinctive "potato-potato-potato" sound is the design of the motor. Here's an excerpt about that from How Stuff Works.com:
"When your lawn mower is idling, you can hear the pop-pop-pop-pop sound of the individual strokes. What you are actually hearing is the sound of the compressed gases in the cylinder escaping when the exhaust valve opens. Each pop is the sound of the exhaust valve opening one time, and it happens on every second revolution of the crankshaft.
In a two-cylinder, horizontally opposed engine, the pistons are timed so that one fires on one revolution of the crankshaft and the other fires on the next revolution -- so one of the two pistons fires on every revolution of the crankshaft. This seems logical and gives the engine a balanced feeling. To create this type of engine, the crankshaft has two separate pins for the connecting rods from the pistons. The pins are 180 degrees apart from one another.
A Harley engine has two pistons. The difference in the Harley engine is that the crankshaft has only one pin, and both piston rods connect to it. This design, combined with the V arrangement of the cylinders, means that the pistons cannot fire at even intervals. Instead of one piston firing every 360 degrees, a Harley engine goes like this:
* A piston fires.
* The next piston fires at 315 degrees.
* There is a 405-degree gap.
* A piston fires.
* The next piston fires at 315 degrees.
* There is a 405-degree gap.
And the cycle continues.
At idle, you can hear the pop-pop sound followed by a pause. So the sound of a Harley is pop-pop...pop-pop...pop-pop. That is the unique sound of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle."
From what I've read online, Harley-Davidson's case to trademark the distinctive sound of their bikes is still ongoing.
Another imitation Harley.
In the early 80s Japanese motorcycle companies were telling us that the V configuration was obsolete. The inline engine was the only way to go. What happened? It wasn’t long before Japan was putting out V engines.
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I ride, not race.
I’ve helped so many Harley riders with broken machines that I’ve thought about putting “Harley Recovery Squad” on my helmet....
I had a lot of years on Harleys. I’ve made two coast to coast rides and a lot of very long road trips.
I never had a problem with a Harley. I’ve stopped a number of times to help broke down rice burners on the side of the road.
Also, people assume that Harley created the look that they are now associated with. Such machines as Crocker, Reading-Standard, Excelsior, and of course Indian had much the same styling and the V twin at about the same time that Harley was starting out.
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