Re: Paint

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Piute wrote

There 2 totally different type of bikes ,reason i always had a smaller bike along with a larger H.D.,have a 77 kz with this 1. After owning different bikes I thought hey I deserve a new bike ,custom ordered to my taste,So I did it .Bike was great 1st year lots of miles then found out that at between 30k n up that the cam chain tensioner will wear out ,JUNK 30K bike just breaking In,Bike was stolen with just over 50K ,So maybe they did me a favor,part and labor would have been about 600 bucks,400 if done self ($ mostly special tools).Owed 11,000$$ more bike was valued at 7,000.$(25,000 total + interest)H.D. trys to keep up with B.M.W. N Honda but can't cause they don't put the money/time into making it right before putting into production.Sure they fix after but at your cost.

Wow, those HD's are expensive!  I had no idea, never priced them.  Well I definately will never buy that bike.  Thats valuable information.  I have never really been a hog fan but I do like and have always liked and wanted a sportster so someday I probably will research which of the older sportsters were better and buy one and rebuild it.