It's funny enough as it is watching the HD faithful do mental gymnasics about their "Murican' Built" bikes when in reality more and more of the parts are themselves are made overseas, they'll have to move up to Olympic level gymnastics over this whole thing.
Then again, this bike isn't aimed at the boomer segment of HD anyways, and the segment it is aimed at won't give a crap where it was made...but sitll.
The Street 500s and 750s were manufactured in India and some assembled in the U.S.
Gone and not terribly missed, but they were getting closer with the 750 Street rod before it was axed.
It's funny enough as it is watching the HD faithful do mental gymnasics about their "Murican' Built" bikes when in reality more and more of the parts are themselves are made overseas, they'll have to move up to Olympic level gymnastics over this whole thing.
Then again, this bike isn't aimed at the boomer segment of HD anyways, and the segment it is aimed at won't give a crap where it was made...but still.
If the contract holder specifies a certain level of quality, that's what will be delivered by the Chinese plants. Harley could very well manufacture MORE reliable bikes at the same cost compared to domestic production, but instead will likely choose to maintain the current "quality" level to save money. So I don't expect these bikes coming out of China to be any less reliable than the current lineup.
LOL. No, I think that was just a bad idea from the start, but nobody had the courage to say so to the HD executives, so they convinced them to put it in the buell line up.
I don't think it's a bad looking bike to be honest. If it was made/assembled in USA with name brand, upscale suspension & brake components I think they could charge more for it and actually sell them in decent volume.
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