Check the dealer in Chattanooga, TN. He always seems to be the cheapest. Also, sometimes new ones are listed on eBay. Of course, then you have to take it to the local dealer for any service and sometimes that causes a chilly start to the relationship. You might consider a used America. Often you can get one for $4-5K with all or most of the desirable mods already done. As well as these bikes are holding up, you aren’t out anything in the reliability department.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.