Yupper, well put.

 

this is so true you even fall under this category...


the engines are not harder to work and in some cases they are easier.
but your comment on the oil pump being better is only half true.
while the pump is definitely better how they mounted it is garbage most jap bike have the same pump but they are chain drive or gear you don't put them on a crank with a tolerance of +.010 runout and +.060 of endplay. it excessively wears the cam plate and pump.

 

I ride the TCs every year and contemplate adding one to the collection .... but I never feel overwhelmed with anything about them.
Two of my friends went with me to Daytona this year and both traded in their bikes (BMW & Honda) for Fatboys. I already hear the complaints about the heater between their legs but I never talk down about the TCs to the new HD riders or point out the obvious - it's pointless and I love riding with them.
My EVO will NEVER be traded or sold. It runs better now than it did when I bought it in '94 and other than a stator, voltage regulator and turn signal module - nothing has failed ...it'll be interesting to see how the Fatboys hold up.

 

Ditto! though I enjoyed reading the 6 pages of info and debate this post has brought so far. IMO, its about being in the wind and the freedom that for me only comes when I am on two wheels. Harley, jap, dirt, even mtn bike, etc. it's all freeing and personal preference. But I do love my Harley and my dirt bike equally and differently...Ride what you like, and ride with me on whatever you like.....

 

Not me, I am the Vulcan Spock when it comes to Harleys, I don't get sucked in by emotive claptrap...you wanna know about Harleys that are a PITA and expensive to maintain? Try a Shovelhead

 

For me, its less about Evo vs TC than it is old vs new.

I want my bike to be simple. Simple as a hammer.

One of my neuroses is that I'm getting increasingly "anti-digital". There's no escaping it (I'm here, after all), but that doesn't mean I can't carve out a few explicitly analog things in my life.

I like the fact that there is nothing digital on my FXR.

 

For me, its less about Evo vs TC than it is old vs new.

I want my bike to be simple. Simple as a hammer.

One of my neuroses is that I'm getting increasingly "anti-digital". There's no escaping it (I'm here, after all), but that doesn't mean I can't carve out a few explicitly analog things in my life.

I like the fact that there is nothing digital on my FXR.

 

Do you have a turn signal module?
If so then you have micro processors in there.

 

Nope.

 

I was born in 1980. By the time I was old enough to pay attention to Harley's, the Shovelhead had been scrapped for several years. I grew up looking at Harley's with Evo motors and wanted one. I like my Evo. It's paid for and it's been very reliable. It's the only bike that I've ever felt connected to, and I'm not the kind of guy that gets attached to material possessions. It's kinda weird. I like pulling in someplace where's there's other bikes and having the only Evo. Since it's 17 years old, it does somewhat have a classic feel to me since I know "they ain't making em like that no more". My Evo Dyna has character and I like it. Is it a better bike than a twin cam? I don't know, I've never owned a TC but I know how good my Evo has been to me so to replace it with something new doesn't make much sense to me. I still have a 1995 F-150 and a 1998 Honda CRV for a work car. I don't replace cars, lawnmowers, trucks, or motorcycles until there's a good reason to.

In a few years when the Quad Cam liquid cooled Harley's are the new hottness, the Twin Cam guys will be saying things about their bikes that we Evo riders say about ours.