Well, if ya call makin' an engine on a "retro-styled cruiser" look, well, a little more RETRO, a look BTW which as "C.W." AND "Motorcyclist" magazines BOTH say Triumph bigwigs admitted to trying to sway a few HARLEY RIDERS(read: Those who PREFER a more "retro-styled" motorcycle...and as "proof" just ask the VAST MAJORITY of Harley riders what they think of the V-Rod!) over to a Triumph dealership INSTEAD of a Harley dealership...THEN...YES, I suppose "one" could call fins on the cylinder barrels of a water-cooled motorcycle "Fluff" alright, John ol' boy!!!
However, I prefer to think that this so-called "fluff" COULD actually "sway" a few MORE of the afforementioned folks who seem to prefer a motorcycle that is a little less based on Mr. Wright's(that's Frank Lloyd Wright, BTW) aesthetic dictum of "Form Follows Function", because that MULTITUDE of folks are LEGION out there, or maybe you haven't noticed all the Harley-Davidson motorcycles out there on the highways and byways of America these past few decades, HUH?! And MOST of those Harley folks ARE of course ridin' Harley's "RETRO"/"HERITAGE" machines, and FEW of them are ridin' Mr. Willie G's V-Rod...or haven't you noticed that EITHER, young man???
(and so...all you folks out there who have been voicing the refrain of "Who need fins?", "We don't care about fins!" or "Why put fins on a water-cooled motorcycle?" and so forth and so on....NOW do ya see WHY I've been "talkin' up" FINS around here since we all first saw pics of the new T-Bird "CRIUSER"??? HUH???!!!...NOW DO YOU SEE???)
