Only Harley i haven't owned is a knucklehead. New ones are OK(6 speed trans will not hold up) but the Motor company has become arrogant and dealers are impossible. Have 2 shovelheads and a 74'' sporty motor in a hardtail frame that is my daily transportation. Can buy everything for these after market-no HD. Trade in price is why I have the F6B now. 09 Roadglide broke(3 times) so I traded. Love the sound of a shovelhead. HD not as dependable as they should be for the money. The China/India thing is not good. HD shunned "outlaws" in the past but now wants to make millions selling the "lifestyle". Phoney. Still like shovels. JMO
I have a 1988 Sportster that I have been completely through from front to back over the past few years and absolutely love it! I like tinkering with things and don't mind wrenching on this bike. That being said, the reason I joined this group was to learn more about the Honda before I made a major purchase like this. I have been on the fence for some time between the F6B and a 2015 Road Glide. I had the opportunity to test ride the Road Glide just a few hours ago and here is how it went....We (the wife and I) pull out of the dealership with our salesman as an escort, we hit the interstate and accelerated up to 70mph and immediately could feel the heat radiate off the right side onto my leg. We exit after a couple of miles and go down this twisty little back road and as soon as we hit the first real bump I was thinking "holy hell" my '00 Yamaha Roadstar rides better than this thing. At one point we hit a bump and my wife verbally lets me know that's she's not pleased with the ride quality of this machine either. So we finally get back to the dealership and I tell my guy that if this is the best riding bike that Harley builds, Ill keep my 15 year old relic i'm riding now. He tells me to hang tight that the suspension is air adjustable and he wants to see where it was at pressure wise. So he takes it around and we wait on him.He comes back and says it was on 0psi and that he pumped it up to 50psi. I mention well maybe that had a lot to do with it I don't know. At that point he asks if I noticed anything else wrong on the test ride. I told him that actually it had a horrible vibration when slowing down but thought that was a "Harley" thing. He said it wasn't and said that he would offer us to do the test ride over again with air in the shocks this time. but that the engine was making a "clunking" sound when he moved the bike and didn't want to put us back on the bike until his techs checked it out. So we left the dealership, and left their new $23,000 bike with them to repair so they could sell it to someone other than myself. I'm fairly certain that there will be a Honda F6B in my near future!!
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