Dlaws01, It may not be apparent to you if you are not riding a Tourer...
But in the Tourer class of scooter, as an HD Owner, if you ride with them you get asked, and it is nice to have some answers because they don't get it here in Australia.. Without valuing the Heritage, and Soul, and sound of the Harley, on a practical level almost in every aspect the Goldwing Honda is better, faster, cheaper, smoother, more luxury, more features, and so on...
They ask why would we ride a Harley, because it is not in their Heritage... It is nice to have some angles on answers that make sense to them. As a HD man, when they ask about the new CVO I have ordered, and you tell them about looking forward to some of the options, they constantly niggle "Nice to see they are catching up to the Goldwing in technology..." Niggle niggle niggle, in truth they don't get it. Some of the Posts here explain whey..
You can ignore it, but the 40 posts here are responses about angles to tell them... You never know, might make some converts.. heh he..
Anyway, there is your why......
And Thanks to you who posted ideas, there were some good ones in there. For me, particularly to an English Guy on a Goldwing, I had not thought of the Classic angle, the why drive a Rolls Royce or on Jaguar, for the artform and heritage. A Honda car would be cheaper and more practical, but just like with the Harley, the Honda has no Soul... heh he...
Best Regards, Cowboy