Opas has this 100% right ,good or bad H-D has this big bike v- twin market locked up.The Japanese can forget about it.It's simply put a cultural thing.Friends ride them and other friends ride Japanese twins and frankly it's unsaid but the Harleys underwell and everyone knows it.Doesn't matter.Gotta be a harley.Now the Indian Scout line against the harley sportster another story.I have the bobber and the harley boys totally respect these bikes.