Oh boy, now you did it. You said something negative about Harley’s, thats fact based....(chuckle)
Great lookin bike, they should have done this two DECADES ago.
All the Japanese bikes do is start easily, run well, and require little to no maintenance.
I ride a Suzuki because of the reliability, and the great price off the show room floor.
everyone knows that rice rockets rock!
I just like to ride.
My caveat is that I DO ride a Harley, but that's because I got a good deal on a used one.
>>>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
I’ll say something negative that is factual about Harleys. They are slow. Here is another. They are expensive to purchase and expensive to maintain.
Beyond that, my HD touring bike was supremely comfortable, had enough torque to roll up any mountain in top gear and carried a ton of travel gear. That and it looked absolutely fabulous. It was built remarkably well, and unlike japanese bikes, it was worth rebuilding instead of disposing of at the end of it’s lifecyle. New motor and transmission and you are good for another lifetime of enjoyment.
Oh, my HD never stranded me either. Of course, neither did my Honda VFR, but man that was an uncomfortable touring bike, even for just 2 hours, but I could do 20-hour days on the HD with ease.
In fact the only bikes that ever stranded me were the BMWs. Wonderful bikes, horrible electrical systems.