The Cvo's have been built on mainline since the new chassis came out. They are in the process of shifting most of the stamping and paint to the softail plant. It looks like later this year most everything will be up in the softail plant and the original main building will cease operation, which is hard to believe after you see the size of it and the complexity of the assembly line. They are planning to lease the original building out. Biggest problem there is it is such an old building and there is no A/C. the softail building is much more modern so they are expanding it, but the overall production area in total will be reduced quite a bit I guess Harley has to streamline that operation to stay alive. The tour I was on was the last of the day and there was just myself and another guy. The tour guide we had has been doing tours there for 9 years and was very knowledgable. Well worth the time to take the tour.
Biggest surprise I saw was a bike Audit. That involves a senior guy riding the bike out on hwy 33 in front of the plant. I guess they take it out for about a 15 mile ride. I was there about 2 days after that major winter storm came through. York didn.t get near as much snow, as the area north, but there was still a pile of salt or whatever other crap they put on the road. I saw this bike coming back in ('11 red CVO Tourglide) and although it was a dry day, it still had a pretty good film of road chemicals on it. I guess that is typical as most of the bikes are produced through the winter months and they gotta ride them, but I wouldnt be happy if that was my bike.
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