Why did Harley stop making the Deuce?
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From: DELMARVA
Haters on Drugs
Deuce? Best looking rear treatment EVER from Harley. I mean. c'mon, it looks like something i would have had a custom 60s builder put on my hardtail back in the 60s. And if you weren't there then you don't know anything about style. I suppose Easy Rider was an Acid Dream for oldsters, haha. Hey---I was THERE.
As for the tank---ditto. Best looking tank Harley ever drew. Frisco style---long slinky and sexy.
Only thing I didn't care for was the EPA short forks. And Forking By Frank wasn't dead so I fixed that with a phone call.
So for me---if you were looking for a nice factory fresh no maintenance no building custom from the MoCo---the Deuce was IT.
Why did they discontinue it? Heck, it is the MoCo. If you haven't been dead for the last 50 years (and I haven't) that explains EVERYTHING.
I am just so unbelievably GLAD I got mine. It is the best handling best factory delivered Harley I ever had. In 50 years. So go suck a pipe, haha.
As for the tank---ditto. Best looking tank Harley ever drew. Frisco style---long slinky and sexy.
Only thing I didn't care for was the EPA short forks. And Forking By Frank wasn't dead so I fixed that with a phone call.
So for me---if you were looking for a nice factory fresh no maintenance no building custom from the MoCo---the Deuce was IT.
Why did they discontinue it? Heck, it is the MoCo. If you haven't been dead for the last 50 years (and I haven't) that explains EVERYTHING.
I am just so unbelievably GLAD I got mine. It is the best handling best factory delivered Harley I ever had. In 50 years. So go suck a pipe, haha.
Last edited by rleedeuce; Sep 23, 2012 at 06:51 PM. Reason: misspelling
Deuce? Best looking rear treatment EVER from Harley. I mean. c'mon, it looks like something i would have had a custom 60s builder put on my hardtail back in the 60s. And if you weren't there then you don't know anything about style. I suppose Easy Rider was an Acid Dream for oldsters, haha. Hey---I was THERE.
As for the tank---ditto. Best looking tank Harley ever drew. Frisco style---long slinky and sexy.
Only thing I didn't care for was the EPA short forks. And Forking By Frank wasn't dead so I fixed that with a phone call.
So for me---if you were looking for a nice factory fresh no maintenance no building custom from the MoCo---the Deuce was IT.
Why did they discontinue it? Heck, it is the MoCo. If you haven't been dead for the last 50 years (and I haven't) that explains EVERYTHING.
I am just so unbelievably GLAD I got mine. It is the best handling best factory delivered Harley I ever had. In 50 years. So go suck a pipe, haha.
As for the tank---ditto. Best looking tank Harley ever drew. Frisco style---long slinky and sexy.
Only thing I didn't care for was the EPA short forks. And Forking By Frank wasn't dead so I fixed that with a phone call.
So for me---if you were looking for a nice factory fresh no maintenance no building custom from the MoCo---the Deuce was IT.
Why did they discontinue it? Heck, it is the MoCo. If you haven't been dead for the last 50 years (and I haven't) that explains EVERYTHING.
I am just so unbelievably GLAD I got mine. It is the best handling best factory delivered Harley I ever had. In 50 years. So go suck a pipe, haha.
Road Captain
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From: DELMARVA
Haters won't die
I have to disagree with a lot of that. I know we all have different taste but i think they missed the boat with the deuce. I would strongly disagree with the tank being the best ever the rear fender could have been done better i would have to say the deuce was not to profitable for harley thats why its gone. If a bike is selling harley will keep it in the line up its all about the numbers . Dont get me wrong i am not bashing the deuce but it would not make the harley top ten. you have expressed your opinion i just added my two cents
Yup. Folks has just lost their minds. Clean lines that flow are out-of-date nowadays.
Some times I get up in the morning and Lord I feel sooo tired.
Then I look at my Deuce.
Last edited by rleedeuce; Sep 27, 2012 at 04:00 PM.
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I agree, first Softail standard in awhile that didn't use the HIDEOUS duckbill rear fender, and people thumbed their noses at it...I'll never understand.
While we're on the subject, why did they ever discontinue the Crossbones? Best softail ever made (save for the aformentioned rear fender....)
they stopped making the Rocker didnt they? now they stopped the XR1200 too, its like they come up with cool **** and it doesnt sell for the first year or two and they scrap it. Takes a little time for it to sell, and they gotta market it better. I talk to harley guys all the time who have never heard of an XR1200 even though it was cycle worlds bike of the year. Didnt see one commercial or magazine add that had it in it. The XR has one of the most impressive dyno sheets i've ever seen in my life, the flatest torque cure you could ever imagine, kick *** style, handling that would leave any other streetbike in the dust on a curvy road but it didnt sell for anything..... marketing.
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Road Captain
Joined: Oct 2010
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From: Colorado Springs, Co.
they stopped making the Rocker didnt they? now they stopped the XR1200 too, its like they come up with cool **** and it doesnt sell for the first year or two and they scrap it. Takes a little time for it to sell, and they gotta market it better. I talk to harley guys all the time who have never heard of an XR1200 even though it was cycle worlds bike of the year. Didnt see one commercial or magazine add that had it in it. The XR has one of the most impressive dyno sheets i've ever seen in my life, the flatest torque cure you could ever imagine, kick *** style, handling that would leave any other streetbike in the dust on a curvy road but it didnt sell for anything..... marketing.
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They stop selling the Deuce in the UK a couple of years before it was finally canned in the States, as has been said on here by many most people didn't seem to like the rear fender or the tank but on top of that they were expensive around Ł15,000 as I recall, so most people went for a Nightrain for Ł 11,750 or a Softail standard for a grand cheaper than that, I saw a good used one in a Dealship a couple of years going for just under Ł10,000 it was in there months before it was sold.