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They now sell things like V-Rods, the definitive anti-Harley. This monstrosity is everything that Harley has always stood against.
While that may be sentimentally true, water cooled bikes are the path of the future and HD needed to get theirs right to survive.
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What good is it to own a Harley if it looks just like everyone else's Harley?
This part is truly laughable. Sticking a few bits of chrome or loud pipes on a bike isn't customizing it, it's accessorizing it like the missus adding pearls to her little black dress. Customizing involves paint and welding apparatus...that cat is just whinging...they all look the same anyway unless they're cut, chopped, bobbed or painted.
Yep Ed! Exactly what I was thinkin' while I read "Mr.Traditionalist's" little op-ed there! 
Evidently THAT knucklehead thinks motorcycle technology's peak was in 1936, when those fellas in Milwaukee hit the market with THEIR Knucklehead, huh?!  
Though I do have to agree with him about that "boutique" phenomenon he made mention of, but once again I think he's off the mark here. What's made Harley so successful since Willie G. bought the family business back is NOT the so-called "hard core riders being faithful", nope, it was that the EVO motor was a heck of lot more reliable than the Shovelhead, and that after THAT, all those Wannabes and Returnees to motorcycle riding(after their kids moved out of the house and their Mrs. said it was okay to ride a motorcycle again) knew that they didn't have to be much of a mechanic anymore to own a machine that'll give 'em that "tough biker look" they'd been longing to project to the world for so long.
(...and of course the idea of which almost ALL the Harley ads you'll ever see continue to push to 'em)
Last edited by Dwight; 11/21/2008 12:43 PM.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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