Originally Posted by Tommy C

Doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I happen to own Harleys, but I fully understand that all man made mechanical devices have flaws, and some folks were unlucky enough to have bought a Harley that was built on a Monday or Friday and they have valid complaints about quality. It happens to every brand and you either accept it or move to another brand and hopefully have better luck. If they buy another brand and it works out for them more power to them. It doesn't affect me in the least.

Originally Posted by Rains2much

I don’t wanna be misunderstood. I’ve owned several crotch Rockets in my teens and very early twenties. I didn’t start a thread to say only Harleys are good.. Or someone can’t enjoy another brand. I don’t care and find it interesting when someone says “Yeah I also love my “whatever” I like it because “whatever”…” I think some who contributed in this thread found themselves slightly offended or defensive. No issue with other bikes. My problem is stepping on Harley and promoting something else.

My example. A guy is all proud of his first new to him Harley but wants a little more pep so he asks about next step, cam, compression.. he gets some advice and then some doorknob says something like “I gave up thinking Harley could have any performance, I now ride (whatever the plastic ugly monstrosity was) and says something like “That’s the only way the guy can ride 80 mph. I make 130hp blah blah blah out of the box blah blah blah” Go pound sand… nobody asked you about your stupid looking bike. If the thread was about how to gain some performance with his new bike, why jump in there about something completely different and try to make the new guy feel bad about his purchase.

The guy about back pain makes a comment that due to age his back is starting to hurt, doesn’t know if he can go cross country so rides more local now. The “other” guy with the Goldwing didn’t say maybe try something with better suspension like my Goldwing.. No he says something like “We’ll Harley just can’t build anything smooth or comfortable, they lack the engineering like my Goldwing. I can ride…that’s why I switched”

If he switched then go away. Who says your Goldwing is better for long trips, nobody asked. If he wanted to offer a suggestion, ok, but why put Harley down to do it if your enjoying and part of a HARLEY DAVIDSON FORUM? Why come to Harley forum to tell everyone they are poorly engineered and that you switched to brand X? Why ever log in again actually.

Originally Posted by CoolBreeze3646

But we have Rounders and no other forum (BMW, Goldwing, KTM etc.) has that kind of entertainment.