Am not sold on the Harley

[Rick Haywood]

Thinking about getting rid of my Harley and replacing it with this Indian Roadmaster

[BlueSky]

One rider's reason for trading his Indian Roadmaster. I stumbled onto this video last night.

 

[cowpuc]

Cool!!!

I have owned, repaired, built, ridden and enjoyed many HD's thru the years and know they aren't for everyone.. Personally I like em. I have never had the pleasure of owning one of the new Polaris scoots but I did get a chance to see the internals of their 111 while out in Sturgis a while back and will include a short vid of such below for your viewing brother. Looking at the helical ground gears, gear driven primary and cam design,, I was impressed. I think it would be a fun scoot to own, especially if Polaris spends some time/investment building a similar add on catalog like HD has and upping the game some in building dealership support.

Another iffy side of it all that might be worth considering too is what comparing parts prices between the two breeds revealed.. I bumped into a guy riding a Road Master along our lake shore a while back. He was showing me a small (2 inch x 2 inch ish), plastic widow on the back of his lower fairing area that covers a light bulb entrance (I think) that had popped out on the hiway and he had inquired about a replacement.. After playing the guessing game with him about my thoughts of replacement $$ for this tiny cover (which I started my guessing at 5 dollar for - it literally is just a small "L" shape plastic window that snaps in there) I was to have him tell me that just under 190 bucks was the price .. This little encounter was enough of an encouragement for my curiousity that I did do some investigations of my own and WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,,, what I found out was incredible!! I have been around bikes for many many years and lived thru the day and age of paying thru the nose because the clutch cable I needed had "HD" on its package. Matter of fact,, I actually stopped riding HD for a good while many years ago just because that cable for my Jap bike was 6 dollars when my HD was 85 - must have some elephant in me cause I aint forgot.. Times have changed now though and,,, I will say this,, the "new" scalper on the block is Polaris and HD, new or old, is nothing compared to what those guys at Polaris are up to - at least it was this way last time I checked..

Just saying that as a prompter to maybe encourage you do some comparison shopping if it concerns you my friend,, it never hurts to talk about it/know about it BEFORE going it if its a concern, IMHO..

Other than that,,, cool scoot and all the best!!

 

[djh3]

After last week I think it was HD had a massive recall, again. Took a gander at some older info and HD had close to like 300,000 bikes or more in last year for issues. So if you were one of them guys you might be pissed at them too. I might buy an Indian, but I'm not a big fan of that huge front fender. I like then new Chieftan classic I think they call it. But no trunk on that model. There is almost always someone that is sour about one thing or another. So the video that was posted they guy was pissed. So check out

the fellow had just get back from a long tour on a new Indian.