Harley Davidson using second party buyers to recover certain bikes.
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From: florida swamp
Actually that's just a made up cover story.
The real culprits are space aliens who want to study how such an antiquated designed machine could be so appealing. They just can't fathom human beings could actually be that stupid.
The real culprits are space aliens who want to study how such an antiquated designed machine could be so appealing. They just can't fathom human beings could actually be that stupid.
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From: Rio Grande Valley-Texas
Just can't see MOCO spending that kind of cubic coin over something that really isn't an issue. Have I missed all the lawsuits on something with ancient technoiolgy? From what I've heard, they should be looking for Non-ABS bikes with ABS markings...just saying.
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From: Mesquite,Nevada
Got to love texas for that. I lived in Texas in the mid 90's. There was a story in the news where repo came on some guy property and he shot the repo guy. Verdict not guilty. Judge said repo shouldn't have tried to steal guys car at night
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From what I have heard Harley Davidson Motors has had an ongoing program to recover any motorcycle built by them that has certain design issues. Once purchased the bikes are being shipped to a deposal area located not far from their facility. At present there is over 50 people outside and in the US methodically recovering all bike that have a tank shifter, manual spark advance, manual throttle return, foot clutch, right side foot shifter and certain early model twin cams with a cam timing sensor under the timer cover. Has anyone heard about this?
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Time to break out the tin foil hats.
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From: Rio Grande Valley-Texas
even if they where (which i highly doubt they would not be destroying them. Saving them for the museum maybe and helping further document their history but not because of safety or to destroy them. After all the MoCo has the largest collection of Harley in the world they started to keep at least one bike a year sense like 1914 or so.