It isn't just the Blast that is a clunker. I had a 92 Evo eat 4 engines and 6 trannys in 6 months, all dealership warranty work. A friend traded a 1970 Shovelhead in on a new twin Camm back in 99, along with cash. Two weeks later, it cost him the Twin Cam, and the SAME amount of cash to get his Shovelhead back, the stealership owner did not want to let a "real (his words)" Harley go.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.
Harley Davidson Motorcycle Company 1903-1964 RIP
Hardly Davidson 1965-1969 RIP
Hardly-worth-a-s**t 1970-current... p**s off.
-WD

By far everything about the LS is way better than the Blast. I am very happy I started doing research , because otherwise I'd be stuck maintaining and fixing one. On top of this , it is very hard to find parts for that POS in a junk yard, where all of them belong. The interesting fact is that there are some hapy owners. What i think is - the idea is good, but because this is very small production line, there are a lot of manual operations. The quality depends a lot on the individual worker. Yes, but like always somebody wants to build something with nothing and pocket the bigger profit. You probably have  $8-10 / hr  guis from the street building bikes. I have seen this done with a very expensive HD clones and I have seen the result.