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Cut your losses and sell the newer bike if you don't want it. One less bike to insure, and you can sell it at peak value. While you'll lose, it will be at the minimum if you move now, only growing with time. You can always pick up a new bike (what you really want) when you're ready.
Again, sorry that it has been so long since the update. Needless to say, I have been a busy guy as of late. Here are some pictures of "Vengeance" as she sits in my garage...
Sorry for your "loss", in time you should realize you're probably better off...
I apologize if you've addressed this already. I've read the entire thread but it may have escaped me.......
Of the two bikes... all emotions aside.... which is the bike (including extras and payments) that you prefer....???
Keep that one, dump the other one... and to hell with if your ex rode it or not...
I've been there and I've gone both ways; once having made a decision for emotional reasons, that I later regretted, and once not letting emotions cloud my judgement/choices and did what the hell I wanted to do.....
I much preferred not letting emotions cloud the decision...!!
Believe me, the emotional aspect won't matter a year from now...
If you like the newer bike, who cares that she rode it.... sell the older one and with the money you can almost pay off the new one, or customize the hell out of it...
If you like the older bike, do as some have said, price it right from the getgo and avoid making a bunch of payments waiting for it to sell...
Let her go.... start by not letting her influence decisions about your Harley!!
Good luck with whatever you decide.... you're not the first, and damn sure won't be the last, to go through something like this....you'll be fine....
Hattitude got it right! your thinking is all emotion and not rational and smart. Look at it this way. She lost the good guy AND the bike! Consider the nice red bike her gift to you. Sell your Twin-cam and do all the upgrades you want to make that new bike of your exactly what you want. Sell the Twin cam and lower your payments big time.. don't give another nickel to a dealer.
Like Hattitude said, a year from now it won't make **** about her, you'll be on a real nice M8!
Sorry about the emotional loss, you must have cared a lot for her to buy her one of those. Her loss.
Last edited by oldhippie; May 17, 2018 at 07:35 PM.
Its been a while and I'm sorry, but not sorry, that I am bringing this back up. I am so happy with my decision to trade in both bikes for this Road Glide. She is better than I could have imagined! There is not a single thing that I do not love about this bike. Granted, I am still changing parts to make "Vengeance" more mine. But here are a couple pictures of how she sits today.
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Sell your Twin-cam and do all the upgrades you want to make that new bike of your exactly what you want. Sell the Twin cam and lower your payments big time.. don't give another nickel to a dealer.
