Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "TheQuartering" channel.

  1. Correct that to a "non-classic" Harley. My Panhead, Shovelheads and stroker Ironhead long predate whatever Wokely-Pervertson are doing. 🤣
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  2. Expose them too. Booze can be replaced by other booze.
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  3. The Harley board who hired him needs to go and the whole company has been corrupt for many years. (I've followed the industry since the 1970s)
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  4. They lost me when they killed off the mom'n'pop dealers were told to go in massive debt for the new Taj Mahal dealerships. "Flip the patch" and FTF are far from new.
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  5. Humans without weapons or ability to command violence are slaves. BTW those interested in security have many, many hours of study ahead and remember nothing outside your personal computer is in your control. The best way to communicate info you want kept secure is NOT TO USE THE INTERNET.
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  6. Lawfare is civic duty. Putting questionable acts to legal tests is a vital function of the justice system which in modern times demands a team effort.
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  7. Technically, wouldn't that be an Achilles uterus?
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  8. Disney was always trash for simpletons. I find this hilarious.
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  9. Smart lads would have nothing to do with a freak show of any sort.
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  10. My classic HD machines long predate this woke drivel, but my 1969 T150 and 1972 Miles Engineering framed T150 approve of your message.
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  11.  @PeTHiRoTH1992  I've never been talked into anything remotely close to that stratospheric level of stupid because I wisely regard stupidity with contempt. I wouldn't volunteer for that clown show even if I knew one was legit, because personal dignity is infinitely more valuable than clowning.
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  12. Find a lawyer to articulate how that could actually work.
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  13. Escalation doesn't favor the Dems, but if they want to FA they will hilariously FO.
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  14. No one needs a new HD since the old ones at least are lifetime machines. The new ones are too complex for that.
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  15.  @bobbob3834-j8r  PROTEST has a collective effect.
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  16. Excellent kits exist for Indians. See Indian forums to find which best suits your use case.
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  17. US academia fell to the marxist left in the 1960s long before current students were born. School protests are leftist infighting with no US patriots involved. Some leftists support Israel, others oppose it but none are fans of Western civilization. What both do want is American money, YOURS.
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  18. Do you support the Great Replacement? Yes or No? Banning abortion just to spite political enemies is anti-Caucasian racism no matter who supports it. Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake.
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  19. Don't let HD get away with this and hold their corporate feet to the fire. Motorcycles are TOYS and no one in the US needs a (new) HD since there are vast numbers of pre-Wokely-Pervertson machines out there with a vast aftermarket. HDs core new bike market is helpless non-techy elderly boomers who are dealer-dependent, not any sort of real bikers. They just insulted that core market whose rich old people have MANY vehicular choices including trikes which better suit the elderly.
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  20. ^This. It's like anti-2A activists threatening to boycott firearms.
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  21. Pics or it didn't happen. If they don't see an act of protest it's useless.
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  22. The Democratic party bungled a simple hit. It will bungle covering that up, too..
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  23. No one intelligent believed their nonsense so nothing of value was lost. Obesity is a CHOICE easily demonstrated by as I did putting down the fork. The idea we should excuse ourselves from difficult choices is degenerate. Look up "diabetic amputations"... One of my best bros would not listen now his kids are fatherless.
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  24. Do not go public. If you do it's no longer YOUR business.
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  25. No new HD money from me. Motorcycles are TOYS and certainly no reason to enrich racist, sexist corporations who use customer money to undermine the customer's own society. There are plenty of great bikes out them, some of which unlike HD make serious HP out of the crate. HD has a very long history of terrible management (with a brief partial relief under Willie G who is long retired) so this is no surprise. HD corner cutting has made the aftermarket wealthy but when a customer no longer feels like paying other companies to defecalize their new rides they'll be tough to win back. Customers owe manufacturers nothing not spelt out in law. Manufacturers owe consumers nothing not spelt out in law but if they want to make money over time they should INTERNALIZE consumer loyalty and respect the people who pay their salaries.
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  26. HD doing this should be no surprise. Design quality tanked when the Twin Cam was introduced because it was designed for semi-automated assembly (first the timing chain guide shoe issue which could not have happened with proven HD gear drives as used since 1936, then the Cruise Drive transmission problems due to design defects whose repair is addressed in multiple videos). HD got away with non-premium quality because loyal buyers know to upgrade them with aftermarket parts. Older bikers remember when if you rode into some dealers on a chopper you were refused service. Willie G was a great positive influence in his time but he is long retired. HEAVY factory propaganda boosted sales and very few enthusiasts take serious interest in the real history other than old mechanics. With all the classics gone the motorcycling world would be better off without HD. The aftermarket has everyone covered for part and then some.
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  27. They don't mean it. The whole corporate structure is anti-male.
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  28. Never happen. Americans care more about jock sniffing than knowledge or self-improvement.
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  29. It provoke righteous resentment. If straight mean are to be called villains that removes every reason not to become villains, which after all is so useful is is deterred by social taboo. If you will get the name you might as well play the game. "Virtue" is not its own reward, however much that lie is repeated.
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  30. Know and understand the company hates YOU, personally and as part of your demographic, and invests in anti-White racism with maximum malice aforethought.
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  31. If you oppose abortion you support the Great Replacement. Choose one and do the math. Christians don't abort so nothing of value is lost and the deleted are instantly in Gods hands so they are not lost but saved.
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  32. There are really four Harley subcultures. One is the straitlaced men with money (which is why HD sold special Shrine models) who are the touring market. Another is blue collar bikers who were never patch holders and wanted a machine they could service anywhere (including the human mutual support network old motorcycles made necessary before the internet) . They bought the Super Glides and Low Riders which copied what the same people did to used big twins to shed weight, bulk and maintenance obstacles. The fewest by far are the (real) 1%ers who are famous but too small to influence sales volume. The key one is the independent mechanic/manufacturing/restoration subculture including speed and repair parts makers like S&S, Baker, Ultima, Paughco etc. If the other subcultures die the last will remain because it's self-contained and doesn't care what Milwaukee thinks. As models fade from factory support most vehicles become more difficult to support but HDs become easier. One can build a stronger, faster, and more specialized to owner preference hotrod Twin Cam, Evo, Shovelhead, Panhead, Knucklehead without using a single HD nut, bolt or washer. HD engineering through the classic and most of the Twin Cam era is simple but intentionally so by fierce customer demand. The sound basics are frequently undermined by product cheapening since the Twin Cam era but TCs are still easy to work on though I don't care enough to add one to my fleet. Their 1936-1999 basic engine design was engineered for simplicity of manufacture on manual machine tools which makes aftermarket parts far less expensive than otherwise. The impact of that choice cannot be overestimated but few besides mechanics think to notice. What made HDs successful over time was their durable, easily rebuildable crankshafts which along with their vertically split crankcases, individual removable single cylinders and heads made it possible to overhaul an engine to what they call "zero time" in aviation. It made it easy to cannibalize the many useful parts from any worn out or blown engine. That's why my Panhead had '48 and a '58 cylinder heads and was easy to turn into an ~84" cubic inch stroker to keep up with modern traffic using a recent set of cylinders and a stroker crank. Do THAT with any other bike that ancient. That 1936 basicdesign was so reliable the Timken output shaft bearing was downgraded by the "new HD" to a roller when they went to semi-automated assembly for Twin Cam. (Now the same bearing is an expensive upgrade!) While the non-unit big twin primary and final drive sprocket arrangement has been obsolete since the smaller K Model introduced right-side drive (carried on by Sportsters through the Evo) in 1952, it also confines damage to three separate areas, the engine, the primary drive, and the transmission/final drive. That engineering choice makes Harleys like two-wheeled Legos. It's why my Panhead has a 1990s five speed Softail gearbox and excellent electric starter connected by an aftermarket belt drive. The ability to mix components and parts from 1936 to 2000 is unmatched (Royal Enfields older models being the closest). HDs were practical to ride for many decades which is why there are far more 1950s Harleys than there are Triumphs or Nortons. The unique aftermarket support and ease of overhaul mean classic HDs easily last generations like my '48 "Panhead Of Theseus". 😁 The vintage HD culture will remain just like the vintage Britbike, Indian, Japanese and other cultures none of which need the modern companies bearing their name. I won't miss the Wokely-Pervertson company should it come to grief, but I'll laugh at them.
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  33.  @TS1207-g9y  Check used Livewire prices. They're hilarious unless one owns one.
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  34.  @pranc236  Most of them are much less. I detest the company but MSRP for entry level big twins (in CONSTANT) dollars has changed little since the 1980s. The high end baggers are for the bored rich (who sell them cheap in a few years when they're too old to ride).
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  35. When both were still being made the Chiefs looked great but if you see inside one you learn why they made no horsepower. Take apart a Knuck or Pan next to an Indian Chief flathead or pull up interior pics to see why Indian died and HD survived. Indian flateads use low speed bushings where HD used Timken tapered rollers. Indian ran a 3-speed crashbox transmission while HD's four speed used dog clutches and is so rugged it was basically the same (ratchet top swap to cowpie top excepted) into the 1980s and didn't need beefing to handle much larger displacement strokers. There are far too many old biker wives tales so best to research EVERYTHING anyone says unless they supply a credible citation.
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  36.  @constitutionalright827  REAL European beer generally stays there. The watery undrinkable swill is for export.
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  37.  @aw0422  This is America. Of course not. The public are too proudly ignorant to run a Republic and our elections are proof. So is our foreign and military policy.
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  38. Talibs are religious conservatives. The Left are not. Talibs are fiercely nationalist. The Left hate the society they live in. Talibs offered to negotiate the fate of Al Qaeda. Bush ignored them due to inablity to tell one from another. American political and military leadership incompetence are far worse problems than Taliban. That's why nothing was learned from Viet Nam and nothing will be learnt from A-stan. If Americans could not be bombed out of being Christian why would a Talib submit to anti-Islamic social changes some American decided was a good idea? US problems are self-inflicted.
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  39. Spell check is fundamental. Try "homogeneous".
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  40.  @oltorf520  At least 15 people know nothing of Israel.
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  41. Tr00n Light are getting what their corporate insult to their customers deserve.
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  42. There are many, many independent local mechanics happy to help and of course true freedom is wrenching your own (I've never depended on dealers).
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  43. FINISH THEM OFF. I do not buy from racist sexist companies.
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  44.  @mcnuggetapple  The company deserves the axe and the bikes getting cheaper used is good news. (Index funds are investments, bikes are for riding.) Many are sold because the buyers were the usual posers who can't tell a compensating nut from a gas cap. That's why their low-mileage rides go cheap.
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  45. "Mechanics" are not going to suffer so please abandon that innocent, well intentioned but mistaken idea. Remember in the US mechanics usually own all our tools and equipment so the barriers to starting your own shop are modest outside very expensive areas. Many of us have better motorcycle workshops at home than most dealers. No mechanic worth their salt doesn't have more than a lifetime of employment AND side work could finish. Good mechanics never starve and we can work on anything because we understand theory of operation. If you can wrench bikes you can (and MANY mechanics do) move into industry, aviation etc and make more money. I did and I'm far from special. There are many videos of car guys (fewer with bikes as there are fewer powersports industry techs) quitting that part of the industry for much greener pastures. I'm a multibrand car and bike mech with decades in aviation as my primary careers so this is not speculation. Insulting your core demographic is nothing new to HD as senior bikers remember quite well from the "flip the patch" era. Real bikers do not need (want is not need) anything the new company makes. Street bikes in the US are TOYs, not transportation (the exceptions prove the rule and know who you are) and toy buyers are already receding from motorcycling. Why buy product from a company which supports .pdf files, gr00ming and gender surgery upon children too young to make informed consent? I don't want the new HD to get better, I prefer it go bankrupt as the aftermarket already amply support every Harley ever made. There will always be plenty of used rides and parts to assemble new ones. Real bikers spin our own wrenches. Remember the REASON the old motorcycle culture existed (and remains strong in niche areas like hot rodding, chopping, drag racing etc) is mechanical mutual support. Commodification, especially marketing to posers, ended most of that culture which today mostly exists among vintage riders. If HD crumples the massive US aftermarket (all small businesses BTW) can easily supply every part in stock or upgraded form which is why you can build a better "big twin" without a single Milwaukee nut, bolt or washer. HD as a company should be excommunicated to show the American people really can punish their woke oppressors. A new generation of younger riders (especially in chopperdom) are building their own rides and discovering there is far more to bikerdom than riding an appliance.
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  46. If you are going to be called the apex predator that removes any reason not to live up to it.
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  47. Older HDs are essentially lifetime bikes thanks to the independent aftermarket. I haven't been inside a dealership more than 10 times since 1988 when I bought the FXR I still ride, and I've been wrenching them since 1981. Pre-woke HDs are basically immortal. I own six plus a couple in parts.
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  48. Harley should be put out of business for social treason. No one NEEDS to buy a new one. No one NEEDS a dealer which exists purely to make money for rich racist, sexist enemies of their core customer base.. (Multibrand mech since the '70s here.) The people who ARE HD are enemies of the American CISHET male and nothing will change that so just stop buying their motorcycles. The market is full of better bikes but HD got a pass for being a legend in the minds of its advertisers and the more recent customers who know ZERO company history except "ooh, shiney!". What n00bs forget is you won't have dealer support when your bike ages out and will have two choices, the independent mechanics and shops who keep ALL older motorbikes going after the manufacturers abandon them or doing your own work (not hard and quite fun!). Either way the independent aftermarket is your friend.
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  49. NO ONE needs a new motorcycle which is normally a poor financial choice vs. the same machine bought used with very low miles. HDs are very common with trivially few miles. Given the breathtaking aftermarket support and the factory downgrading quality in recent years it makes far more sense to (even and especially if you spend the same money) build a far superior custom that would wipe the floor with a stock bike. I like many HD owners could buy a new one for cash but that money spent wisely gets MULTIPLE classics from when HD was pro-American so I expand my collection and ride a variety instead. New HD money will get a VERY nice restored Panhead and the high end ones are into Knucklehead and even low end Vincent range.
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  50.  @nomad74777  Probably with the same advice.
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  51.  @Cent51  It is also free speech to ridicule choices which support an anti-male, anti-Caucasian racist Motor Company. There is no right not to be exposed.
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  52. You know better than to assert HD actually abandoned woke policies so why are you doing that? You have HDs assertion only.
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  53. It won't matter on my machines because any such installs will never directly contact the internet or be on a PC/hdd/USB I never use for anything important. Disk space is dirt cheap so when I want Windows I fire up a suitably isolated (or not depending on use case) VM residing on my Linux main PCs. Anyone who cares can solve the problem in multiple ways and more will be available as Windows users who are stuck with it for specific software that won't run on other OS develop workarounds. This stuff is easy to learn and useful to know but most people prefer worthless entertainment instead of getting smarter every day. Gamers can just use their gaming Windows install as a toy and run another OS for online shopping etc which is also trivially easy given minimal effort. I do NOT recommend dual booting on bare metal and haven't bothered since 1999 when I figured out using a hard drive swap rack on my desktop was much more convenient. Ways to separate multiple OS on one box include: Multiple hard drives (and cutting power to the one you aren't using via an inline switch setup bought or self-assembled). Running the least secure OS in a virtual machine, which has advantages over bare metal including having a "clean install" saved as a snapshot so you can have a fresh OS quick as rebooting the VM (not the PC itself). Running Windows for gaming only (so security doesn't matter) by using it as a host OS then booting your "secure" OS from a live image using Ventoy and an external hdd (need not be a slow USB flash drive). Live Linuxes are free to try of course and you can try each image in a VM instead of writing to a USB or hdd. Live OS booted from external media are terrific for rescuing your data when your machine will not boot or crashes too early for data rescue. Any recent Ubuntu (if you're an experienced Linuxer you don't need this post so no distrowars please, save those for infants of all ages)/Xubuntu (for the more familiar interface) etc live image will do. A Windows To Go install to external media. There are other free tools besides the original MSFT like Aomei Partition Assistant. Search Youtube for the most current videos. BTW you can and I have made a Windows To Go install on a main hdd so if that PC breaks I can toss the drive into another or boot it externally using a cheap bootable USB adapter. None of this is exotic and the many text articles and forum threads cover details not suited to videos. Experiment and have some fun! It doesn't cost a dime unless you write live CD/DVD etc media which an XP user would do anyway.
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  54. AMF saved the company from family mismanagement but didn't know how to run it and had labor problems. The buyout at the time was by the same executives but via the Evo they saved HD from AMF who previously saved HD. I was wrenching then and quite amused.
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  55. Write more creatively. It's fun.
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  56. Rossman is a man of consistent integrity. This should make Slashdot.
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  57. Most long time family dealerships were killed off decades ago when the first dealership requirements begat all the Taj Mahal buildings you see today. That was when they also tried to kill independent shops using "Harley" in their name. An example was Harley Haven in Columbia, SC, which X'ed out the Harley name on their shop front becoming The Haven. Tim regained the "Harley" part when he bought a dealer franchise years later. The Motor Company IMO deserves to fade away. I was also alive when some dealers wouldn't sell parts when you rode in on a chopper. HD management have long distanced themselves from the people who are the reason they have a company in the first place. No loss since the aftermarket provides and there are more than enough HDs for everyone if they never sold another.
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  58. I'm impressed people are making fewer stupid financial choices. Coffee is a caffeine delivery system. Fancy ritual is for the bored rich.
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  59. Killing the patriotic incentive to forgive HDs (many) defects was a terrible idea. It WAS accepted that if you buy one you promptly upgrade them using American aftermarket parts. Wokely-Pervertson just exterminated reasons to support the Motor Company. The US market is already saturated with older models so no one but the bored rich need a new one. MOTORCYCLES ARE TOYS and now any American may as well buy far higher performance foreign bikes from people who don't insult their customers. HD forgets NO ONE needs the company even for spare parts because the aftermarket are so good. Harley Delenda Est!
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  60. It's a lagging indicator. Sales are soft.
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  61. It's called PROTEST because it puts eyes on the issue. Used HDs are mostly cheap and common as popcorn. No one who really wants one is prevented from having one thereby. An HD is a consumer good like a video card or a Fleshlight.
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  62. That's not how it works IRL. They're required to have an AMERICAN motorcycle and there are plenty of those not from Wokely-Pervertson. Victory hot rod parts are available and anyone so desiring can build a superior aftermarket custom using zero HD parts. See also the late Sonny Barger (famous as an HD mechanic inside biker circles) opinion on the old custom of being stuck with HS. Neither 81 nor any other club needs an HD from Wokewaukee.
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  63. Keep the pressure on! Take the fight to the enemy. Motorcycles are TOYS and no one needs to pay their hard earned cash to people who despise them.
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  64. In that case it wastes investor money which is also good news.
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  65. They do now and I make sure every biker I know is informed because it's hilarious! We wrench and ride the classics so the fate of Wokely-Pervertson is not our concern
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  66. If you want an investment few bikes will beat an index fund. The measly few thousand (remember to correct for inflation!) most HDs gain is more than offset by inflation. I didn't buy my fleet for resale, I bought it to ride. Never forget that unless the value in CONSTANT dollars rises, the value has not risen because mere numbers alone do not matter.
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  67. No, they're LYING and you should not have used that title even for views so WHY DID YOU POST IT? Bad call, continue monitoring. Their CEO is not gone, their policy will not really change because the same sexist racist management still run the company.
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  68. They were too old for the priests to Epstein so they got booted.
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  69. Escalation is good news in the end because the Democrats will eliminate appeasement as a viable defense. Democrats regard conservatives as conservatives should regard them, without the slighest respect or empathy. Politics is war, the Left exist to end Western civilization . They are products of over a century of Soviet and other subversion which became self-sustaining.
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  70. Consumers killed Victory. Indian is the response. They were just not selling.
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  71. I'm gonna spread this one. I've don't really feel like and "old" biker since time moves so fast, but since my mentors are dead I guess I am. This is a direct and CALCULATED spit in the face to every biker who kept Harley-Davidson alive. These new fools have no idea what the days were like when Harley almost died the FIRST time due to family business incompetence. WE bikers carried that company. WE bought Shovels (and fixed them) and Evos (great machines) and are the reason they have a company to destroy. This will not stand.
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  72. Keep holding HD feet to the fire and your viewers will spread the word. HDs are TOYS and betraying their customer base means they no longer deserve American support. Our choices hit the enemy in their wallet and the fewer bikes they sell the better. No biker NEEDS the Motor Company because it's really the independent shops and mechanics who keep the vast majority of used bikes on the road and will continue to after the factory abandons any model.
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  73. AA just stepped in feces and knows nothing about mechanics. Their woke consultants are racist, sexist social enemies of their own customer base!
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  74. Independence would be in 2000 for big twins and 2003 for Sporsters for most owner mechanics, though a serious enthusiast can easily overhaul a Twin Cam axle to axle.
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  75. Felons by their actions make the informed choice to establish themselves as enemies of society. Punishment is not to be confused with redemption or a simple "debt" because actions reflect character. Would you let a p3d0who served their sentence work with children? Would you let a convicted fraudster run a savings and loan?
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  76. White males should boycott every corporate racist sexist enemy permanently. We control billions of dollars collectively and we ARE most of the powersports toy (motorcycles are toys) market.
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  77. Acceleration isn't just desirable in cars...
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  78. He is 91 years old. At that age dementia sets in.
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  79. Hold their feet to the fires and DO NOT STOP. Harley chose to be leftist racist shills. They forgot MOTORCYCLES ARE TOYS NOT TOOLS and absolutely no one NEEDS a new Harley-Davidson because (now) it has ceased to be an American cultural icon (and, speaking as a rational HD owner and mechanic, the mythos was overblown by propaganda). The old time dealers were put to the sword decades ago by HD requiring outrageous dealer investments which favored the rick and obliterated their loyal supporters many who did so since the early 1900s. The new HD aren't very good BUT Milwaukee just obliterated any reason to give them the support. The vast aftermarket which caters OLD HDs the factory DOES NOT SUPPORT does not need the factory. Shut it down, if you're helpless enough to prefer a new motorbike there are plenty of which are of better mechanical quality. Ask mechanics if in the slightest doubt. No white person should spend a dime with HD because if they treat their most loyal supporters like this, they don't care about YOU either.
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