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Triumph would charge 10k if they made a 1200. They are at 8 for an 865 and 13 for a 1600. Split the difference you get a 1200 and split the price you get 10,500.

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Difference is you would be getting a quality bike that is worth 10k - with a Triumph badge on the tank!

...and why is it called FORTY EIGHT? FORTY EIGHT reasons not to buy or is it 19FORTY EIGHT technology or perhaps FORTY EIGHT things to go wrong in the first 12 months.

As for their plan - price point is one thing but they must produce quality. If this suffers in the downturn (and it normally does when the bean counters take over) then their problems will grow - no question.

Don't get me wrong - I like some of the Harley range very much and hope they come out the otherside in good shape but they need to be way more innovative than this.

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Triumph would charge 10k if they made a 1200. They are at 8 for an 865 and 13 for a 1600. Split the difference you get a 1200 and split the price you get 10,500.

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True, but a Triumph will last longer than 4 years ($10,499 / $7 per day, as stated in their video)

And Triumphs have nicer looking tanks
Apart from that, it looks ok

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True, but a Triumph will last longer than 4 years ($10,499 / $7 per day, as stated in their video)

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Always been a Sporty fan - I don't care what they say about its feminine leanings

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Yep, ever since HD brought it out the Sporty has been a direct competitor for the Bonneville (and they aren't slammed as girly bikes) and I've liked them both. I quite like this bike aside from the peanut tank; and, who doesn't love a fatty out front? Actually, that tiny tank could be a blessing to get you off the vibrator before you go numb.

Standard Bonnies and Sporties are within an inch of being the same size with the Sporty weighing in a little over 50 lbs heavier. There's a pretty good premium on the extra 30 ft/lbs of torque this model makes but it is a 1200. Still, to get to 80 ft/lbs you'd probably spend just as much with Bonneville Performance building up a standard so it could be a wash...then it's just down to which marque you prefer. It does show that HD realizes it needs to really appeal to its entry level buyers and this offering should work for them.

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I don't like them from a mechanical point of view. I haven't been inside one in years but I wouldn't imagine they changed much inside. They are over complicated and prone to failure.

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Always been a Sporty fan - I don't care what they say about its feminine leanings

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Yep, ever since HD brought it out the Sporty has been a direct competitor for the Bonneville (and they aren't slammed as girly bikes) and I've liked them both. I quite like this bike aside from the peanut tank; and, who doesn't love a fatty out front? Actually, that tiny tank could be a blessing to get you off the vibrator before you go numb.

Standard Bonnies and Sporties are within an inch of being the same size with the Sporty weighing in a little over 50 lbs heavier. There's a pretty good premium on the extra 30 ft/lbs of torque this model makes but it is a 1200. Still, to get to 80 ft/lbs you'd probably spend just as much with Bonneville Performance building up a standard so it could be a wash...then it's just down to which marque you prefer. It does show that HD realizes it needs to really appeal to its entry level buyers and this offering should work for them.

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Well Barry and Ed, OBVIOUSLY you two don't understand the "reasoning" of WHY it's become "common knowledge" among the "Lifestyle Crowd" that a Sportster is a "girl's bike"!!!

You SEEEEEE, it's 'cuz ANY motorcycle that can ACTUALLY handle twisty roads in a relatively "sporty" manner(and hence H-D actually naming their product as a derivation of that word "sporty"), and ANY motorcycle that COULDN'T be considered little more than just some chrome-ladened and lumbering "penis-extention" of a motorcycle, such as most of H-D's vast line of "Big-Twin" motorcycles, THEN by extention(oops there's that word "extention" again) THOSE motocycles(and that's the former models I mentioned here) would NATURALLY be considered a "girl bike"!!!

(now...do you two, OR ANYBODY ELSE for that matter, have any OTHER questions you need answers to here???)

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Well Barry and Ed, OBVIOUSLY you two don't understand the "reasoning" of WHY it's become "common knowledge" among the "Lifestyle Crowd" that a Sportster is a "girl's bike"!!!

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You're probably right. I guess I'll get in touch with my feminine side and go rip some twisties...

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Ahhh, yeah, I think, perhaps, maybe. However, Dwight, that hint of doubt and/or confusion may only be because of your exuberant use of the comma, and the parentheses (traits for which I had originally prided myself). It seems, in these recent days, weeks, and perhaps months, that your typical rant (I, in no way mean that in any form of derogatory vain) is so very populated with copious quantities of various punctuation, particularly the aforementioned, and a very strong hint of fragmented thought patterns, that I suspect, and perhaps fear I will soon become ‘comma’ tose.

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