Maybe this post will help, maybe not but in any event, it's a story with a nice outcome for me personally.
Back when the 09 SERG's came out, I was so hot to have one I actually made myself sick over not being able to work a deal with an H-D dealership on either coast whereby I got a fair trade-in on my 07 RG that I'd put tons of money into. The end result of all that was that I stopped doing business with any H-D dealer and bought what I needed from local Indy shops. I also do not recall even logging onto H-D's website until very recently to view the 2010's nor the 2011's. This summer when I left for Maine, I left LD (my 07 RG) here in Dago. I had the use of an old EVO Electra-Glide while in Maine. When I got back home here in Dago just a couple weeks ago, I uncovered LD, dealt with having the batteries in both key fobs gone bad (and charged the main battery) started the bike and went for a ride. When I came back I was grinning from ear to ear. You see, the Evo I'd been riding was a bone stock 80" with a tour-pak and a bunch of other stuff. A big heavy bike without a lot of power. LD has a built from the ground up 103" Screamin Eagle motor. Not the stock CVO 103 but one built out of what is now called Screamin Eagle race only parts. So the difference in performance was nothing short of astounding. Then as I cleaned the bike, I recalled all the little details I'd worked hard and spent good money to add into LD and realized, no new bike could be as nice or as right for me as LD. Back in the late 60's and early 70's I used to ride Honda's and Yamahas. I'd had a bad experience with a 69 Sportster and was not exactly a big fan of the MoCo. The thing that got me back to riding H-D was that the Japanese Mfgrs made so many changes to their product every year that I was never happy with what I was riding for more than the few months between when I'd buy it and the next model year would hit the dealerships. Oh sure, H-D made changes, some big some small, but mostly a Harley was a Harley was a Harley. So I had some H-D's that I kept for years. Then after H-D began producting Twin Cams, it seemed every year was something bigger, better, faster, more. I bought a 00 SERG only to HAVE to have an 03 SERK only to have to have an 05 SEVROD. Got so tired of waiting for another CVO RG that I basically built my own version in 07 with LD and now the story comes full circle.
Bottom Line - - - - put your ride away for a few months, cover it up, forget about it, whatever it takes to sort of blank your mind on it. Then some day when you think you've just got to have a new H-D, uncover your "old" ride and then ask yourself if that new shiny whatever down at the dealership with the huge pricetag, big payment etc etc is something you really have to have.
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Topic: 2010 owners -- buyer's remorse now that the 2011's are out? (Read 19607 times)