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Originally Posted by chassis
There is a never ending supply of septegenarians who will become eventual Harley motorcycle, and increasingly trike, owners.
Harley's demise because "their customers are dying" has been second page headlines for 20 years.
The Pan America is admission that the old product is not sufficient for the company's future. Wait until Harley offers a product to compete head-on with the Slingshot and Can-Am.
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I'll counter with the Street Rod, Buell, and Live Wire. None captured the real interests of the traditional Harley buyer nor his offspring and his offspring's offspring. I will concede the ADV Pan America seems to be a hit.
Two years ago, I was all set to buy the Street Glide. I thought it would be a neat change to go with a big twin and ride with my brother with his
Chieftain 112 Super Chief 116. But as we all now know, the K1600B won the day.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."