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If you don't buy a Harley to keep it for years and years, buying a CVO is an advantage. If you buy a standard model and spend tons of $$ to upgrade it to CVO standards, when you trade it in, all that money you blew on custom paint etc etc is totally gone, it is listed in the NADA book just like box stock. I pay more for a CVO but get a return on the added goodies I didn't get when I bought a standard model. Just my two cents....
The more you pay, the more you lose when you sell it - period. CVO or not.
These two CVO's to me are not really custom bikes, they are special detailed bikes with a limited number made of these bikes. I bought them both and did upgrades just like any other bike. I just like the little extra details they put into these CVO models.
The thing to do is buy late model cvos letting the guy who doesn't care about money blow it and you don't suffer the massive depreciation. You can then in theory spend some money to tweak it to your liking.
They are factory customs period. Even Big Dog, Bourget and others were simply factory customs. Even full on hand built customs use aftermarket parts.
No one pours molten metal into a bucket of sand to make all the parts for a bike anywhere on this earth. Or mines iron ore and processes it into tubing.
So take you mindless concerns over what is custom and shove it.
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