What Forum Members Don't Like about the New 2018 Softails
Sponsor
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 268
Likes: 52
From: California
6th Gear
Joined: Jul 2018
Posts: 13
Likes: 10
From: FL
Sub par quality
2018 Heritage Classic 107 stage 1 with a dyno tune.
Things I do not like...
Speedometer condensation with no fix is inexcusable. Not one of the Japanese bikes I have owned did this. Both the rear oxygen sensor and oil pressure sensor had to be replaced. Buzzing in the floorboards and handlebars at 80mph plus.
I do like the character of the engine and the handling very much, so I will probably keep it another year or two before going back to a Japanese bike.
Bottom line, the quality and reliability is too far behind the Japanese brands for me. The prices aren't competitive either.
Things I do not like...
Speedometer condensation with no fix is inexcusable. Not one of the Japanese bikes I have owned did this. Both the rear oxygen sensor and oil pressure sensor had to be replaced. Buzzing in the floorboards and handlebars at 80mph plus.
I do like the character of the engine and the handling very much, so I will probably keep it another year or two before going back to a Japanese bike.
Bottom line, the quality and reliability is too far behind the Japanese brands for me. The prices aren't competitive either.
Tourer
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 309
Likes: 186
Freud was right, it all boils down to sex. Allegorically speaking, I dumped my neurotic chronically ill Japanese girlfriend for a rowdy whisky-tango POW who is smoking hot but drinks way too much. Can't say one is any more reliable than the other, frankly.
Novice
Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 19
Likes: 3
From: Massachusetts
Oh please. No motorcycle is reliable, or a good value, or fundamentally a good idea in any sense.
Freud was right, it all boils down to sex. Allegorically speaking, I dumped my neurotic chronically ill Japanese girlfriend for a rowdy whisky-tango POW who is smoking hot but drinks way too much. Can't say one is any more reliable than the other, frankly.
Freud was right, it all boils down to sex. Allegorically speaking, I dumped my neurotic chronically ill Japanese girlfriend for a rowdy whisky-tango POW who is smoking hot but drinks way too much. Can't say one is any more reliable than the other, frankly.
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 15,705
Likes: 22,718
From: Farmington ,MS
No it is the Softail "range"......
6th Gear
Joined: Jul 2018
Posts: 13
Likes: 10
From: FL
Lol!
Oh please. No motorcycle is reliable, or a good value, or fundamentally a good idea in any sense.
Freud was right, it all boils down to sex. Allegorically speaking, I dumped my neurotic chronically ill Japanese girlfriend for a rowdy whisky-tango POW who is smoking hot but drinks way too much. Can't say one is any more reliable than the other, frankly.
Freud was right, it all boils down to sex. Allegorically speaking, I dumped my neurotic chronically ill Japanese girlfriend for a rowdy whisky-tango POW who is smoking hot but drinks way too much. Can't say one is any more reliable than the other, frankly.
Novice
Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 19
Likes: 3
From: Massachusetts
Yeah, and they're called BMWs.........lol
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Joined: Jul 2018
Posts: 83
Likes: 7
From: America
This *SLUG* of a bike is NOT GOING to save ,resurrect,help-,nor bring in a new market of H-D bUYERS ......in fact ,this bike and all the others (THE FEW) released to the press are all a bunch of garbage WAGONS .