I've had her just over a year - it's an 09 Superglide custom, appropriate bolt-ons, and about 6k miles. Last year was a bit of a short riding season due to the sopping wet summer we had, and very early winter (and now it's been frozen out for 3 months straight - hell, I've had 3" of ice covering my street for over a month). Normally I ride through, but no such doing this year.

Took it on a long trip over the summer, about 3000 miles over 2 weeks. Was a lot of fun, mind you, but I don't know if I'm going to have time to do another one like that any time soon (joys of work), so it'll just get ridden around town next summer, once winter breaks. I'd kinda like out of the payment - get something used and cheap, and then dump the profit (I owe way less than it's worth) into my 383 stroker I'm building for my firebird.

More than that though, I'm kinda pissed off at the Motor Company and my dealer. I started that trip with just over 2300 miles on the scoot - not a bad place to be, and we were expecting a 2500 mile trip, and we had a schedule to keep (conference to get to, and some family to find on the way back). About 200 miles into the trip, I started getting a nasty bit of front end clunking. I figured it was a motor mount (definitely wasn't the steering head bearing), or an exhaust mount - you could feel it on bumps and the like, but it didn't seem that bad. We didn't have any time to stop, as we ~had~ to be in Seattle in a week, so I kept riding it. Didn't get worse, and my research on the issue didn't sound like it would be a problem, and to be honest, it wasn't - I got home just fine, but we ended up having to go out of our way to avoid weather, so I got home with 5800 miles on the bike. Oops.

She's still new, so we go to the dealer and they promise to fix the issue under warranty, since any new bike shouldn't be clunking bad enough to feel it in the footpegs - and sure enough, they fix it 2 days later and call me back. And charge me for labor, as it was simply loose bolts on the gas tank, and that's apparently not something under warranty and would be done in the 5k service normally. My response: WTF, so a bike that starts rattling and clunking at 2300 miles is something that's taken care of at the 5k service?? They refused to warranty it, and my one call to HD got the same response - it'd be taken care of in the service, and never mind that it was doing it early, and I should have paid them for the service. (so WTF is a warranty for then, may I ask?)

Now every time I look at it, I'm reminded of how ****ed up it is that a vehicle company would refuse to warranty something like that over $50. Yeah, it's not a lot of money, but it's the principle of the thing, especially after I bought 2 bikes in a row from them. It just rubs me wrong, and every time I think about it, I have no interest in riding. It sat for the last month of the riding season because of that, and I still haven't done the 5k service, even though I've got all the parts for it sitting there. But, I did enjoy the thing before that, and it does fit me...

Anyway... this probably sounds like a huge rant, but I'm just not sure what to do with it yet. I'm not sure I want to ride it, but I'm also not sure I want to sell it. It's just sitting there, clean and polished, but I somehow just don't want to touch it now.

 

Get on their Azz and don't let up.

 

I had the same scenario with a laptop I salivated over for years. Got it finally, and found out it wasn't quite up to par, in respects to graphics, and I too have not used it because the amount of anxiety it caused me each time I wanted to. Nothing came of that, it still sits over on a corner of my desk, not being used much. No one else feels the anguish, other than myself. I just started using it recently for purposes other than what I made the purchase for. I would never get even close to what I paid for it from a resale, so might as well use it for something. Good luck with which ever choice you make, I do indeed feel yer pain!

 

I don't know about yours but my warranty on my 09 is fender tip to fender tip. Loose bolts are on them not me. Anything is on them not me < if it is mechanical in nature (like loose bolts). I have to take mine in for a fender repaint.. imho I think you should sell it.

Sounds like you bought it tried it .. isn't really your thing. Get your money out of it and let someone that loves to ride get their hands on that scoot and rack some miles up on it.

 

Really, all that rant over 50 bucks?
And you don't want to even touch it?
Sell it to someone who will ride it with a smile.
That sure ain't you.

 

moco sucks.

it's not a new thing. it's not a personal thing. they're not picking on you.

pony up the 50 bucks for the labor. then pony up 90 bucks for a manual and learn how to tighten tank bolts yourself.

 

Crazy thing is, there's tons I couldn't stand about the sportster I had before it, and yet I put 8k miles on that in only 6 months of riding, and that included a big period where I was gone

Yeah, it's only $50, but it's $50 that should have been covered and shouldn't have been a big deal to ~them~ supporting a $15,000 bike I bought new. My Nissan dealer didn't blink when I brought my frontier in for something small, and neither did the Ford dealer with my SVT foci.

Hell, the ford dealer stepped up in a 24 year old Jeep I bought from them with ~no~ warranty, and the MoCo wouldn't for a brand new bike? That's just not right, and it bothers the hell out of me.

 

Lopoetve - you think your po'd now? Wait and see how you feel after the beating you take selling an 09. I wouldn't count the chickens you're expecting for that 383. Shoot, I'd be po'd too, probably more at myself though for not catching that stupid tank mount. Another way to look at it might be, thank god it wasn't the front end, or something coming apart in the motor, or some other non-service related item after only 5000mi. I'd be losing faith in everything else had that been the case. I understand the weather cutting into your ride time too, but you knew that when you bought it... Good luck in your decision. I'm sure it will all work out in the end for you.

 

Sit back... drink a couple cold ones... think of all the good times the scoot has provided you... If you don't feel good after that, well then it wasn't meant to be. What's that old saying; you don't know what you got til it's gone...

Keep it It's not the bikes fault the moco sux...

 

They treated you wrong. The dealer should have fixed the problem with your bike no questions asked and not charged you the extra $$, they are very short sighted and a poorly managed dealer. If it was me I wouldn't spend another cent with them. The bad ones will go by the wayside and thats a fact.