cruising 80 all day will eliminate most if not all harleys unless the new ones are remarkably better riding than previous years.
Nope, as Bristoe states, the big twins have been perfectly highway-capable for years now.
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no motorcycle built in the past 25 years is parking lot rebuildable unless you have a schit ton if tools, skill and knowledge.
More accurately, no motorcycle engine DESIGNED in the past 25 years is parking lot rebuildable, including every Harley-Davidson since maybe 1984 when the Evo motor came in.
Before that, if you rode a ShovelHead Harley regularly, you carried a schit ton of tools, and of necessity had learned skill and knowledge
IIRC the Honda and Suzuki 650cc dual-sport thumpers (single cylinder) are essentially unchanged for more'n thirty years at least, they might even still have carbureters, I gotta go look. I am aware of two incidents of Honda 650's being rebuilt in parking lots on long expeditions, even met one of the guys who did one when he was passing through Oaxaca in Southern Mexico.
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