10-30-2015, 12:40 AM
Well put Ferret. The great HD debate comes to mind first for me. I've ridden a Vic Vegas and now own a Raider, both non-HD reliable cruisers. I like the way HDs look, but for thousands more and matching issues, why pay more for less. I get the history thing, and if you grew up on them then cool, no issue there. I just don't have pockets that deep, and like wasting my own money rather than a machine doing it for me personally. I like their tshirts even, and will pick one up here and there more as a mark of a rider in general that represents that particular place geographically, rather than drown in the HD koolaid. Some folks are all HD, truck, shirt, shoes, jacket, gloves, whatevs. They start making affordable and equally reliable bikes as the rest and they might see my money one day. Till then, to the land of the Rising Sun for me I think...