"they're getting dated....."
They were "dated" when they first came out. That's why a lot of us "dated" people bought them. A reincarnation of the Bonnevilles a lot of us owned pre-wife, pre-kids, pre-mortgage, etc. And these Americas and Speedmasters have the same thing going for them. They're different from the mainstream. They have lineage that was lost for a while but is now resurrected - an English vertical twin.
I still love my 2003 America. Sometimes I think about Rockets and Triples and Tigers, but it's just a passing fancy. Others act on those thoughts. Things change.
It's just conversation. Enjoy what you like and ignore what you don't. Someday there may be 6 of us left, but we'll still get together for a ride somewhere, somehow.....
