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Harley's are the only bikes I've owned with enough character to give names to.
Don't get me wrong, I had a blast and put thousands of miles on several crotch rockets (and may own another one day for part-time thrills), but for me it's the difference between Harley's old school charm of a bi-plane and Suzuki's cold efficiency of a missile.
Two totally different feels/purposes.
I used to call my 2000 Sportster 1200, "Piglet" and my wife named my 2009 Road King Police, "Pork Chop".
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Slideshow: From the troubled AMF years to modern misfires, these bikes earned reputations for reliability issues, questionable engineering, or disappointing performance.
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Slideshow: The Swiss custom shop has taken a Harley Softail and stretched it into something so long and low that it looks closer to a rolling sculpture than a conventional motorcycle.
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Slideshow: A standard cruiser becomes an intricate metal canvas in the hands of a Swiss custom house known for pushing Harley-Davidson platforms far beyond their factory brief.
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