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From: South Carolina
Sometimes you don't find out what you really want until you after you've bought something and start riding it and using for what you want to do with it. I don't consider that a mistake, its more of a learning curve or as obummer likes to say "a teachable moment".
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Jefferson, Oregon
That is why it is great advice to go and maybe spend a few hundred dollars renting the bikes you "think" you want.
People who impulse buy an expensive item deserve the regret afterwards. If I would have listened the advice of my coworkers, I would have bought a sloptail since that is what they all ride.
Rode one and coming off sport bikes, I wasn't ready for a bike that could hardly lean and just sort of floated down the road.
Rode a dyna, I was sold. It was only a matter of picking the style...and a few years later and the personal touches I have added, I have no regrets. I would love to add a touring bike to my stable one day when I'm able to do some long traveling...and a dual sport, a super motard, another track bike, more dirt bikes....
Hell I even want a sportser to hardtail and make into a little bar hopper. 
It never stops.
Really though, as long as you picked the right line up (dyna for instance) I see no reason to trade it in for another dyna. Just make it your own or into what you "need" instead of wanted.
People who impulse buy an expensive item deserve the regret afterwards. If I would have listened the advice of my coworkers, I would have bought a sloptail since that is what they all ride.
Rode one and coming off sport bikes, I wasn't ready for a bike that could hardly lean and just sort of floated down the road.
Rode a dyna, I was sold. It was only a matter of picking the style...and a few years later and the personal touches I have added, I have no regrets. I would love to add a touring bike to my stable one day when I'm able to do some long traveling...and a dual sport, a super motard, another track bike, more dirt bikes....
Hell I even want a sportser to hardtail and make into a little bar hopper. It never stops.
Really though, as long as you picked the right line up (dyna for instance) I see no reason to trade it in for another dyna. Just make it your own or into what you "need" instead of wanted.
Cruiser
Joined: Oct 2011
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From: IL
"Do y'all find it to be a mistake if you don't buy the bike you really want?????"
Not if it happens to the other guy. Bought my Fat Bob from someone who didn't really want the bike and sold it after 2 years with just over 2,000 miles on it. Saved me over $5,000 vs. new.
Not if it happens to the other guy. Bought my Fat Bob from someone who didn't really want the bike and sold it after 2 years with just over 2,000 miles on it. Saved me over $5,000 vs. new.
Cruiser
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From: San Diego
yep, pretty much sums it up right there!
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Road Master
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Or did you mean to ask, "Is it a mistake to buy a bike you don't really want?"
It's a subtle difference, but an important one.
Buy cheap, buy twice.
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It is if they stop making it.At one time I really wanted a Sportster 1200S,A Naked Bandit 1200,A new Triumph Bonnie when they came with carberators,I was going to buy an Electraglide Standard when I got my Damn Street Bob.
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