Anybody seen this? https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motora...204723398.html
As a former politician, Dave Zien has built a reputation for defending motorcyclists' rights – as well as cruising the country with patriotic flags hanging off the back of his Harley-Davidson motorcycle for millions of miles. So it came as something of a shock when Harley rejected a warranty repair Zien sought for a broken clutch on a new Harley trike — citing his flags as the real cause.
Harley says that the flags caused the clutch to fail. You can haul your 200lb friend on the back, but a flag is just too much. I've heard it all now.

 

Yup. Old news. There have been a half dozen threads about it across HD Forums.