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Really, though. I always think to myself: "Well, you just keep dreaming about that Harley that you might own someday, if you can scrape up their asking price. Meanwhile I'll keep on riding my bike that'll do everything a Harley will and then some, and costs about half as much." Not that I couldn't afford a Harley if that's what I really wanted, but the CDN$10,000 plus that I saved is money I can find other uses for.

I think mentioned this before, but I'm a true Sportster afficianado. It's by far my favorite bike. I paid $8500 for the one I'm riding now, and that included a mess of chrome, and taxes paid. (Taxes paid in the Harley world is high flow air cleaner, high flow pipes, and rejetting the carburator/download new settings to the EFI)

"I think mentioned this before, but I'm a true Sportster afficianado. It's by far my favorite bike. I paid $8500 for the one I'm riding now, and that included a mess of chrome, and taxes paid. (Taxes paid in the Harley world is high flow air cleaner, high flow pipes, and rejetting the carburator/download new settings to the EFI)"

More power to ya, bud. My point wasn't so much that hogs are very expensive, although the big twins do start at around CDN$20,000, which is $11,000 more than I paid for my bike 4 months after the first owner bought it, with 4,000 km on it (there is an upside to the depreciation, you see). It's more that some idiot who can't even scrape up the money for a Sporty is telling me that anything but a Harley is crap, when they could lay out a few thousand bucks and buy themselves a functional used bike and actually be out riding, which I think we've agreed is what it's really all about.

I've actually always thought the Sporty was rather good looking, but I don't think I could live with the vibration that comes with them if you rev them for power. So if I was to buy a Harley, a big twin would be the way to go. The Dyna T-Sport is pretty sweet, I think.

Hell, if things were different and used Sportys were the cheap bikes and Jap bikes were expensive, I'd be riding a Harley rather than dreaming about some other bike, if you know what I mean.