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Well...I for one, CAN'T WAIT 'til Greybeard reads the part where that guy wrote about JAPANESE bikes "bein' better" than AMERICAN bikes.

THAT should be a good rebuttal, and an interesting read TOO, huh?!

Cheers,
Dwight



Nothing wrong with japanese bikes. I buy them 6 at a time, drink the beer and toss them in the bin.

Everybody knows how HD's and Triumphs are so unreliable, that's why you see a lot of bikers riding ones that are 40, 50 or 60 years old. Japanese bikes are very reliable, which is why most of them are sent off to the knackers in maybe 5 years or less.

I suspect that either this guy lost a race to some old geezer on a 1941 EL in front of his friends or his girlfriend dumped him for a biker and made fun of his kiddy bike.

One great thing about HD and, to some extent, Triumphs is that they are stable enough that you can do a lot of custom work without hurting the ridability. for an example, The '76 XLCH I recently gave to my grandson had 14 inch extended forks, about 5 degrees raked neck and the rear shocks were replaced by struts that lowered the rear maybe 3 inches. I was at a stoplight next to a mildly customized honda 750 with the fork extended about 4 inches. It was so wobbly that the guy riding it had to paddlefoot it up to about 20 MPH! So, I made it a point at the next redlight to put my feet on the pegs first, then ease the clutch in and start moving. Then I cranked the throttle and left him.

Oh, and the 883 Sportster is not intended to be particularly powerful or fast. It is an entry level motorcycle intended for the same purpose as a 125 rice burner only with enough tractability that a novice rider won't stall the engine and fall over and enough power to safely ride on the freeway.

It's also funny that every maker of 2 wheeled vehicles in the far east is very obviously overcome with Harley envy. I was thinking it might be Brough or Vincent envy, but if that were so the valve covers and fake air filters and pushrod tubes would be arranged differently.

Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python