For me, I had just sold my 2012 Street Glide and I was looking at purchasing a 2015 Street Glide Special. I went to three dealership just so I could give ever color in the lineup a fair shake. My eye was drawn to the brilliant silver metallic paint. So, I went home with a parts book and I spent days looking at that book, marking pages with sticky notes. Then I went back to the dealership and spent three hours building the bike. The first thing we did was roll a stock SG Special over to a desk and thumb through the parts book, adding the parts that I had picked out. Of course it was just on paper.
I may have had 20+ pages marked with a sticky note. And while putting it together at that desk, I found a few more things to add to the build. After hours of crunching numbers it was easy to see that my wish list was over the top. The bike had went over the 40K mark.
The parts guy said; Have you thought about buying a CVO?
Not at all, was what I said and I really hadn't thought of buying a cvo. As far as that goes, I had never considered a cvo. I guess it was always the upfront cost that had turned me away. But, almost every Harley that I have owned ended up being around what a cvo would have cost me. The only difference was I spread the cost of my bikes across a few years of ownership.
The cvo was more bike than the one I was trying to build and it was less money. You just can't build a cvo for what you can buy one for. I had seen cvo bikes over the years but this was my first real introduction to the CVO… Only a few days later, I had one parked in my garage. "Yes, you read that right" My cvo purchase went from an idea to reality in less than a week.
I got my Silver paint, with a twist… No Regrets!
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Topic: Why a CVO instead of a standard model? (Read 28028 times)