Amen!

 

I am trying to figure out how to put shark fins on mine....

 

......shade thrown? did we break the internet and make twitter erupt?

 

No hate here... ride on brother!
I’m usually amazed at how much people bang on other bikes. And on the MOCO...
Many styles for many tastes...

pc

 

This is a really good point. Harleys, despite the bashing they take, are pretty simple, reliable machines with an unmatched dealer network. I was just reading in the BMWMOA monthly magazine, ON,about the expense of maintaining a new BMW. I'm not sure what model it was, - I;ll assume a K1600 variant, but his annual service was over a thousand bucks. And as you point out, a Ducati will be even more.

Again, I've ridden the FXDR. I actually liked it more than I thought I would. It's a fun bike that moves out pretty good and handles decently. Not everyone needs a BMW or KTM, both of which need a little more maintenance, not to mention restraint.

 

New age. If I don't like your bike because I wanted something different, I must hate you and it?


Gotcha sweetpea.

 

Not true. As you see from my garage picture, I have a smattering of each (and cycle through brands), including BMW (owned an R1200R prior to K1600). If someone says they are paying "over a thousand bucks" on annual service they are doing something different - maybe exaggerating? The BMW does have an expensive service at 18K miles to check the valves. Before buying the K1600 I had some concerns about that (cost for that particular total service is about $1200 - it is a 6 cylinder engine after all and not easy to get to). However, after the first 500 miles I decided that I would happily pay that for the immense pleasure that the bike provides. I have not found anything in the cruiser market even close in performance. Other annual expense is just the typical fluids - I pay for that because changing oil on that engine is a PITA....I will give him that.

 

that reason could easily be attributed to s Road Glide or EG Ultra. More performance for lest cost from a Gold Wing. I think it’s the core belief that any Harley should look and perform like a bike from 20, 40 years ago.

 

Help me understand something: If you were in the market for an electric bike, you would pay TWICE the price to be on a Harley?

 

It was in this month's ON if you're member. The piece by David Cwi - "It's all about Ewe" He says - "It's also not a cheap pastime. I just handed a dealer well in excess of a thousand dollars for my annual full service and to store the bike for a couple of months....."

I handed my dealer $700 to replace lifters, replace the in-tank filter, replace the battery, do a ABS service on my bike, and store it for 4 months. Normally I don't spend even close to that. The battery, lifters, and in-tank filter happen every 4 years. Normally I would do those myself but I wanted to get the bike in before the extended warranty expired. I had them go through it with a fine tooth comb and the best they could come up with was a weeping rear rocker cover. Between that and a clutch that went bad at 25k miles, that's all my warranty had to cover, which is a mixed blessing I guess. But I'm glad that at 40k miles the bike has been very reliable.

Back to the article - He went on to speak on replacing tires every 8000, which is a much shorter interval than on my bike which will go twice as far on the rear tire and 3X as far on the front.

I honestly do not know what BMW he rides. I assumed K-bike as I know from ownership that the R bikes are very easy to work on. As far as valves - is it every 18k miles? He probably does in excess of that number every year.

And FYI - not knocking the bike. It's an engineering marvel. I would love to ride one some day.