 Did Harley Make a Mistake.......???
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I read this last night. So funny...  Whoops!
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Well, I guess we Triumph riders are honored by this really backhanded compliment from Harley. Thanks fellas! 
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Everyone makes mistakes but you just hope they aren't as big and career destroying as that one.   But probably very few HD riders would even know why it isn't a HD.
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Ooops! I guess somebody will be in for a flogging over this!
Dinosaur.
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yay, it was one of the early vertical twin harleys, it was before the sportsters..... 
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Pretty funny! Just saw that this was posted on Triumph's Facebook page.
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I hope they are  and Very complimentary for Triumph.
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Harley always wanted a parallel twin..... that looked like a Triumph 
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This reminds me of the GM designer who drew the "new" GTO, he went to great lengths to tell the world he never even looked at an old Goat before drawing the new one, DUH. By the way the "new" GTO was a Flop. The corporations keep on hiring young grads with no sense of history, or knowledge of the product.
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Best of the comments under the article,
"Wolf Baginski • an hour ago
Harley-Davidson has a certain character, and people have reason to admire them. No bike suits everyone, and HD have endured.
But, as is written in the Good Book, the roar of Moses' Triumph was heard throughout the land."
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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If you ain't first, you're last!
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Quote:
Harley always wanted a parallel twin..... that looked like a Triumph
so did Kawasaki 
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Quote:
But probably very few HD riders would even know why it isn't a HD.
And probably THE most accurate comment made in this entire thread!!!
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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