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Buyers: "Give us more tech to compete with Indian and BMW and update the styling!"
Harley: "Here's a new TFT screen, liquid cooling, some of the tech Indian and BMW have, and updated styling."
Buyers: "We don't like it! You updated it!"
lol...how true...
I love the new design. I traded in my 2019 SGS for 25 RG. It's night and day. Even the suspension is better than my Legends that I had on my old bike. Everything is better on this bike. The info center is what I was really missing with the 4 bulky *** gauges from 1980s in my 19 SGS. The 121 with VVT is awesome. Honestly, I don't think I will even touch anything with it.
As with any iconic vehicle, there will always be two different camps.... those who like the traditional and those that want the new tech....
Nothing wrong with either group.... buy whatever you like...
PS- I was on the Corvette forums when they went from the C5 to the C6 platforms... There were some contentious "debates" just about the head light change....
I don't see why Harley can't or won't please both camps. There are those who want and enjoy all the latest tech and others who are happy with simple and unadorned. Have touring bikes with all the bells and whistles PLUS tourers with just a simple fairing with analog speedo and Tach and heaven forbid, bring back the Road King standard.
I love the new design. I traded in my 2019 SGS for 25 RG. It's night and day. Even the suspension is better than my Legends that I had on my old bike. Everything is better on this bike. The info center is what I was really missing with the 4 bulky *** gauges from 1980s in my 19 SGS. The 121 with VVT is awesome. Honestly, I don't think I will even touch anything with it.
Harley did a great job in my opinion.
that almost doesnt even make sense, its a facelift of the old chassis.
I don't see why Harley can't or won't please both camps. There are those who want and enjoy all the latest tech and others who are happy with simple and unadorned. Have touring bikes with all the bells and whistles PLUS tourers with just a simple fairing with analog speedo and Tach and heaven forbid, bring back the Road King standard.
From HD's perspective, as a publicly traded company with no one on the board who has their name on the marquee, it's all about the stock price....
If they don't think it will make money, or if there was a model that was dropped because it didn't make money, small chance of the model being added to the current line of bikes....
IMHO, there is also a bit of arrogance in their methods.... Harley buyers tend to be very emotional buyers... Harley knows that....
Harley is willing to bet that all but the most diehard, old-school guys will buy the new tech/design if it's the only new HD bike available....
that almost doesnt even make sense, its a facelift of the old chassis.
What doesnt make sense? I am not talking about chassis. I am taking about a bike as a whole. Call it a face lift or whatever you want. Infocenter, ride modes, suspension, engine, its all better than my 2019 model. It looks better, it rides better and it has more features.
What doesnt make sense? I am not talking about chassis. I am taking about a bike as a whole. Call it a face lift or whatever you want. Infocenter, ride modes, suspension, engine, its all better than my 2019 model. It looks better, it rides better and it has more features.
if it rides better you didnt have your legends set up right, unless you got one with the ohlins suspension.
Here's a picture of my 012' that I sold last spring to my daughters boy friend. I looked at the 26' Road Glide limited still on the fence. I like the green and black paint.. I gotta give it brake this year, I bought a 50'th Anniversary Goldwing DCT last summer.
Last year on vacation i had a new 24 roadglide special. It was so much better than my 2017 roadglide special! I started looking 3 days into my 24 day trip!
if it rides better you didnt have your legends set up right, unless you got one with the ohlins suspension.
The suspension is much better on these new models, and CVO's is little different as well. It rides much better than my legends did. This is not only my opinion but others that rode my bike and had Legends on theirs. I did have Legends setup correctly. It's not a rocket science.
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