Harleys are Cheap Machines??

[yamahonkawazuki]

same could be said from and for the riders on the other bikes who dont/wont wave too , i was offered a chance to ride a 1940 hd flathead ( WITH JOCKEYSHIFT) through the dragon. i politely declined, i know how to ride em, whihc i did at the overlook, bust not well enough to guarantee this cat that id bring his baby back in one piece, ( i can do fine on NORMAL roads, but not the dragon lol)

[jhutch2115]

I know people that ride Harleys "real bikers and not wantabe's" and with the advent of the evolusion engine thay have become much more reliable than the old knuckel  and pan heads, therefore their popularity has risinalong with the price ! I was talking with one of these life long HD riders and I actually asked him about the AMF H.D.'s from the 70's and 80's and he said most of the people that he knows that have them don't ride that much, some have after market engins and they get road more frequently. H.D. sold out to AMF and then willie davidson and some other took it public, that's when the evo engin came out and they started to sell bikes in numbers again. The reason the Japanese bikes did so well was due to their superior reliabilty and performance in comparison to both the H.D. and the Brit bikes. when I was a kid I loved H.D's and everyone I knew back in Michigan hated them  because of their notorious mechanical problems.
       ----- JIm

[yamahonkawazuki]

aye the days of the bowlingball harleys. anyhoo as ive said in other anti hd posts, or hd related posts, you can change the engine out. BUT it in effect ruins the title. cause the bikes are titled to their engines AND trannies