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With an overnight setup job, I'll smoke you on your goose with any '90's Sportster 883 anywhere you'd like to ride.
The biggest concern for HD should be dealer apathy, Buell would most likely still be around if they weren't sold only in HD shops.
I'll be your huckleberry.
The Adv bike looks like it came straight out of a Chinese design studio. I'll very surprised if the production version still has that block front end.
Ya.....the top two are butt ugly but I'm kinda likin' the bottom one.
Agree on the bottom one. However...major competitor will be the Ducati Monster. Can H-D build a 150 hp, sub 500 lb bike that handles?
Hmmm. I wonder what the inspiration for the third one might have been............ Interesting to see an American company copying the Japanese. Something the Japanese companies have been accused of (quite rightly) for a while now.
You gonna actually make me do it?
I've got about 200,000 miles on BMW twins myself, on two continents and have never been left stranded by mine... the newest of which was a '93. Actually, I've never been stranded by any motorcycle since 1974 but that aside I have been with quite a few other riders on 21st century BMWs that have left their owners in the lurch. One notable instance was a ride on which one late model GS got water in the TPS and was trucked home and another ate its valve gear. Both on the same ride to Corsica from Munich. Another friend had a K1600 engine self immolation, bike totaled and parted out at 60,000 miles and so on. This stuff is not exactly rare. I don't think I have to lay out KTMs issues, there's a lot of info out there. I have 6 of them in addition to my current BMW, but Ducati and Guzzi don't have a sterling reputation for reliability either... HD does have a good reliability reputation in the here and now. That reputation is matched only by the Japanese and possibly by Triumph, I think that leaving an opportunity for HD and their well developed dealer network.
I wonder how much of our impressions of which make is reliable or not have to do with our own experiences. There's this cognitive psychological area of study called 'heuristics.' Kahnemann and Tversky about 30 years ago pioneered it. Relevance here is, our brains are not mechanistic, they evolved to remember certain things differently. For example, we will remember things that happen recently of course. But we also remember the first event in a series more correctly than we remember middle events in a series. We also remember VIVID events more clearly. Primacy, recency, and vividness are characteristics of events that we remember and shape our actions.
Amazing how some are so sure of things that haven't been released yet.The Street Rod is none of those things, NONE.
Also amazing is how sure YOU are of things that haven't been released yet. The Street Rods is also none of the 3 concepts.
Does it have to?!?I mean, to be competitive in the market place is different from being the top dog.
Just sayin...I got a dollar that says the magazine writers will make the Ducati comparison. Harley will have to offer something that ticks many of the boxes to pique interest in the buying community. IMHO if H-D fields a bike weighing less than 500 pounds, and that handles reasonably well they may have a fighting chance, as long as it's cheaper than a Ducati Monster.
Yes
Hm. You got Loudon, I have Moroso. Summit Point WV or Road Atlanta, or Roebling Road are sorta in the middle. I'd travel to Mid-Ohio for this challenge. Stake your claim, bring what you like. I can find any old sportster around here for $2500 and have it ready in a week. If you'd like a point-to-point race, set your points and your calendar and give me 2 weeks to show up. Game on.
I didn't say I was sure. I was making some, perhaps optimistic, predictions but at least I was BASING them on the closest current product to what they are showing - THE STREET ROD...
