[QUOTE 5290911, member: 45"]A friend of mine bought one last year. He's a great bloke, and has decided that this is the image that he wants to buy into. That's fine for him and not for me, but it doesn't remove the fact that HDs are rubbish.[/QUOTE]
That's exactly what HD's are, a lifestyle item. A mate of mine years ago had a Heritage Soft Tail Classic, a fully dressed monster with the performance and handling of an aircraft carrier. Out riding with him I used to take the bends at well below thrill speed, sometimes with one hand on my knee while I watched him in the mirrors fighting to get the thing round as if he was on board a rodeo horse.
Good luck to those who like them, they have perfectly valid reasons but no way are the bikes any more than an outdated throwback to the fifties.