[Spridgets] Harleys

[Mike Rambour]

  As a proud owner of a daily driver BMW motorcycle, I would argue that 
they last 100,000 miles ...

  The older ones absolutely YES but people are regularly breaking the 
newer ones at MUCH LESS mileage, so much that I will not own my BMW when 
the 3 year warranty expires.  I will miss that bike, best bike I have 
ever owned but the new ones are not long term bikes anymore.

  For Harley's you don't worry about the reliability or mileage, the 
large majority of them are ridden less miles in one year than I ride in 
one month (yes, there are exceptions, there is a guy here at work who 
daily drives his Harley, rain or shine his bike is parked next to mine).

     mike

On 02/24/2011 12:08 PM, derf wrote:
> My dad had Harleys when I was growing up.  He also had a Norton and a
> few others.
> I always wanted one.  When I got to a point where I could get one or
> two, I realized I no longer wanted one.
> Someone took the Harley icon and commercialized the heck out of it.
> Of course, much of it was me.  There is nothing wrong with HD.  It
> just isn't what it used to be.
> After having ridden many different bikes, I would go with a BMW.  The
> BMWs regularly last 100,000 plus miles with good maintenance.
>
> But, OTOH, my street bike is a 2001 Honda XR250 Dual Sport so what do I know?
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Heard Saxon<heard at datatrontech.net>  wrote:
>    
>> I want to talk about Harleys since I just bought one.
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