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Illinois | http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2013/08/19/harley-davidson-unveils-its-new... |
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | I've been keeping up with this story too. You know being an ex Harley guy ( I've owned 8 ). There's alot to digest in that story. Any changes at Harley is always met with some skepticisim and bitching. Hell there are Evo guys that hate TC's to this day. The stereo upgrades and lights are nice. The increase in prices, well not so nice. The watercooled heads on some models, well that's the thing that will be met with the greatest resistance. But like all things Harley's not going backwards and I feel all the bigtwins will have watercooled heads in two years. Harley has to do things slowly to not alienate it's base customers. The last three times they presented some thing considered radical they were abject failures. 1977 XLCR cafe racer couldn't sell them, 1983 XR-1000 couldn't sell them, 1984 the behind the scenes V-4 and V-6 Nova engines cancelled. But like almost all changed products people get used to the new and most forget the old. I believe this first water cooling solution is just a bridge to the next generation fully watercooled big twin. Time will tell............
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | And Yes I already hear HATE from some "old timer" HD dudes........... |
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| I think that really steped up on the baggers. Bad colors. Have owned 30 some harleys and no I love my vision more |
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | And don't think this debate won't be coming to Victory some day, maybe sooner than you like............ |
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | I guess Victory gets a free ride for another year. I was hoping a little competition would wake them up.
I know, 2014 is Indians year, anything done now would be lost in the hype. |
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Manchester, CT | Looking at the HD's new announcement/video, it is evident that HD is resting on its laurels if they think a few LED upgrades, easy open bags and a big LCD display, oh, almost forgot the new venting system on the fairing is going to be able to compete with the Indian. Polaris hopefully will feeding their marketing machine. Great products need great marketing. I've worked for companies that developed the best products out there but fell short due to lack of marketing communications. |
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Grand Cane, LA | I don't think that is water cooled heads they are talking about. I think they just re-directed some of the oil cooling around in the heads to go past the ports to cool them. I know my brother is disappointed that they are not bringing the Road Glide back especially since they sold so many of them in the last couple of years. I think they shot themselves in the foot this year. |
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Grand Cane, LA | Oops, I take that back. They water cooled around the intake ports. C'mon, really?!! They couldn't make a radical change to "really" water cool these bike? Oh well, I guess people like BMW, Kawasaki and Yamaha have nothing to worry about. LOL!!! |
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | I posted this on Facebook to piss off my Harley friends, now you gotta remember I rode Harleys for 39 years before the BIG breakup, and now I'm a OHC Victory man. " Harley releses pictures of new water cooled inline triple for 2015 RoadGlide" Maybe I'm laughing cause I've been drinking.....Or becuase My Harley buddies are so pissed about "Change"...................
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Chattanooga, TN | That's awesomely hilarious, and I'm only drinking water! |
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Memphis | Kind of ironic that Harley now has more types of fluids to change out than any other belt/chain drive bike on the planet. Of course the mechanics are rejoicing: "More gaskets!! Woo-hoo!!!" |
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | Funny thing is some of those YoYo's couldn't even figure out that the picture was a Suzuki GT-750 from 1972. The real "WATER BUFFALO". They were screaming mad about it, typing "that's a sellout yuppie machine", "I'll never buy another Harley" and so on. Bahahahahaha, I finally let em know it was a joke. |
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | I can hear it now " Man do you smell anti freeze ?? " |
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Chattanooga, TN | Beats the rotten-egg smell of blinker fluid! |
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Duanesburg N.Y. | SSDY Same Shit Different Year |
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Illinois | XRsteve - 2013-08-20 3:20 PM
Funny thing is some of those YoYo's couldn't even figure out that the picture was a Suzuki GT-750 from 1972. The real "WATER BUFFALO". They were screaming mad about it, typing "that's a sellout yuppie machine", "I'll never buy another Harley" and so on. Bahahahahaha, I finally let em know it was a joke.
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| here is how there hiding it
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Grand Cane, LA | So they moved some of the heat from beside your legs to in front of your legs also! Might be good for the winter time, but it's still going to suck in the summer. |
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Spfld, IL but temp Bay area, CA | "new intuitive hand controls"
Does this mean they have finally put both turn signals in one switch for the left thumb to operate? |
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