I might catch hell for this but did you honestly use Harley as an example of something being reliable? Up until recently they were overpriced loud junk. That for some reason yuppies glommed on to and decided to be bikers. I had a friend who had a brand new Yamaha V-twin that ran like a top. It was smooth and sounded good. Just a great bike. He went to Bike Week in Daytona and let those brain washed HD people bully him into trading that quality motorcycle that had less than 1000 miles on it for a Hardly Runs Davidson. The irony of the whole thing is when they left Daytona on the way back to the Tampa area that used POS broke down in front of the Yamaha dealership he bought his good bike at. Other than a V-rod they are build like an air compressor as a new friend told me yesterday. He got conned into getting one and kept pouring money into it. Sold it to his friend reluctantly who very shortly had to replace the transmission. My new friend replaced it with a BMW that’s twice the quality for half the price.
