Yep Ed, I agree. However, there sure are a whole lot of H-D afficianados out there who disagree with Anderson, and by consequnce, you, me, Kendall, Nathan, and the rest of us here.
You see, I got into a little "p*ssing contest" recently with a couple of these..ahem.."gentlemen" at the Cycle World forum(geee...what's the chances of little ol' ME gettin' into some kind'a p*ssing contest, HUH?!
) who think H-D did exactly the right thing here, as their "reasoning" is usually that H-D shouldn't attempt to compete against the "Japs"[read: Sportbike manufacturing] because Harley-Davidson didn't ever make that genre of motorcycle, and should just stick with makin' crusiers.
Well, what these fellas apparently fail to know is that H-D DID make very competitive road racing machines back in the day, as famed H-D racer, the late Cal Rayborn won the Daytona 200 on an H-D back in the early 1970s.(the last H-D road race victory, BTW, and there were many many other H-D road race victories before that final victory there, as you probably know)
But of course, this one particular H-D fan(and a few others at that forum) apparently don't know of, or remember, that little historical fact, and thus, true to form, the morons...ahem...I mean the "gentlemen" started throwin' accusations at me that I was somehow "Anti-Harley", "un-American", that "anybody who dare question H-D was somehow less of a real man"...and well, you name it, dude!!!
(uh huh...you "might" know of or have encountered "a few" of those of H-D types out there I'm sure, right?!)
