Bob-Job: The New Harley-Davidson Softail Cross Bones

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Seyth Miersma on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 15:30
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Harley-Davidson has made a formidable “bobber

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Ducati Minor

Great to see a bike piece again. I was bummed out about Winding Road bringing and then dropping bike coverage from the magazine.

As for the Harley, what is the price range? I love café bikes. I'm considering a vintage Moto Guzzi, but do like the Ducati Sport Classic and the Triumph Bonneville. Harley will have a hard time breaking into the café culture, I think. Harley's image has been attached to the old easyrider gang. The café crowd tends to be a little elitist and exclusive.

Sun, 01/27/2008 - 17:01
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Paul In Jersey

It's a Harley. With the implied mystique of limited production, Harley will make all they can sell.

I'm not so certain the "nostalgia" pitch works for the other motorcycle companies. The Kawasaki WS650 is long gone. The Honda GB500 never sold well. And don't wave $8000 under the nose of your local Ducati dealer or you wind up with the title to a Sport Classic.

I gotta admit though. I'd like to see the flat-black factory paint we've seen on Hogs and Ducs make appear on some cages.

Sun, 01/27/2008 - 20:34
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Steve

Great looking bike.

V-Rod's still my fave HD offering, though...

Mon, 01/28/2008 - 09:28
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Mon, 01/28/2008 - 11:08
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detroit9000

I am always conflicted by whether or not to celebrate H-D. They're cool. But celebrating them seems to rail against engineering ethics. Engineers use technology to solve problems and to make life better. Harley uses technology to run contrary the grain of efficient transportation in the name of style and culture. Style and culture have their place, without question, but should engineers buy into it? Should you burn a million dollars squeezing diamonds into your cell phone, or should you spend it curing cancer?

There are a lot of bikes that address the task and hand - moving people, and making it fun - much more efficiently and cost effectively. Harley's bikes have always stood in contrast to those bikes.

I guess it's just part of "freedom". US of A, home of the Hiltons, and Harley.

Mon, 01/28/2008 - 11:16
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Dave C.

3 words come to mind when I see this bike: Ugly, Travesty and Greed.

HD is just trying to squeeze money out of the now current "bobber" trend. They could have done so much better, but they went with a bad knockoff that's probably easy to reproduce.