Frank Boettcher wrote:
...snip... Thought after HD
came back from their spiral down in the seventies, all the bikes were
good. Maybe not?
....snip...

Hi, Frank, This is Frank. grin My $.02...

I had a Sportster in the 60s. At the time, it was pretty much as
dependable as any other bike available. By the 70s, that was far from
true. However, like you said, by the 80s they talked about how they'd
bought themselves back and were producing bikes as good as anything
from Japan. So in 88, I bought a new H-D. This one had electric start.
Whoo-hoo!

Hah! What a POS. Couldn't go a thousand miles without needing a major
visit to the shop. I sold it in 90 and bought a nice Yamaha for about
1/3 the price. Faster, can actually corner without scraping anything,
infinitely more dependable, blah, blah. H-D will never get any of my
money again.

YMMV,

Frank