Here's a humorous story from this past weekend.  Last Friday, my old work buddy stopped by the house to show me his new Heritage softail Harley he just bought for over 19 grand.  I'll admit, it's a beautiful machine, and I would love to have one, but here's the funny part.  We took off to go ride together, and when we stopped at the gas station to fuel up, and rest from all the wind, my bike is the one that recieved the compliments.  Everyone looked at it like it was some sort of oddball.  Hey, that's alright, it was enough to make my friend wonder what the $#%* was up.  He told me he didn't buy his HD for the compliments, but he sure was pissy the rest of the trip.

i see it all the time. people i know are pissed over it.  they still got 9years of payments. bugs um every time. what really gets them is when other hd owners drool over it.. most people don't know that their are alternatives to the harley or it's clones.

i would say that the 9 out of 10 harley riders wave, they dont see it's not a harley.   the tenth he's just to busy adjusting the radio, taking a drink from the cup holder.

honestly here in moses lake most do wave. some just wait till their waved at.

also it has to do with what helmet i'm wearing. i've got a wild colored sport bike helmet. a black full face, and a silver open face.

more sportbikes wave with the wild helmet. curzers wave at the open face. i get the least amount of waves with the full face. could be i use it in cold wx or mostly at night when why wave when they cant see you.  8)

i'll have to rethink that black paint job. the lovely lady likes the purple.

here's a quick story. i went to a harley shop to buy some steel endcaps to replace the crappy plastic chromed ones.  the guy asked "what model" you putting it on. i told him some 1 inch bars on my savage. first he tried to tell me that the bike couldn't have one inch bars, then went with "they only fit the specific harley bars" and when they dont fit i wont be able to bring them back.  I say, you gonna take my cash or not.
grudingly he did. needless to say, once i took the plastic insert out of them they worked quite well with a bit of jb weld holding them on.

i think in a nutshell, people buy what the see sold on the boob tube and what everbody else has    this way they won't make the "mistake" of buying something nobody else rides.  

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Leave it black and give it purple flames.  
Then everybody's happy.

8)I've noticed the same thing here guys ... I ride with a pal sometimes who owns an '04 VS800 Intruder ... if out on Thursday evenings in season, we'll usually swing by the local Bike Nite ... we usually park "side by each" as we say around here and it fumes him to no end that my 'lil Savage gets gobs more attention than his Intruder gets (and the 'Truder is a fine lookin' machine!) ... make the best of it, most of the gawks and compliments come from either Harley guys or those who once owned old Brit singles! Can't help it, but I love it!

LOL, the COO of my company rides a Valkyrie but when he saw my Savage, he started waxing nostalgic about his first - an old Brit thumper.

WD ... since you have an orange Savage, ever thought about givin' her a Flat Track racing style paint job similar to that on the 883XLR pictured above? Always thought that a Savage would look pretty cool dressed up like that!

Ha, ha ... yeah, a flat-tracker paint job just wouldn't go with apehangers and fishtail pipes!