You would be the exception and not the norm. It sucks that you did all that when it would have been forgiven - but not every plan is going to benefit everyone the same. Most beneficiaries of loan forgiveness are a generation of students who took out absurdly high student loans and walked into a series of economic…

1) NYC is one of the biggest federal tax revenue generators in the country (and that’s not even including the metropolitan area - Yonkers, a suburb, actually generates more per capita than NYC) and even if they decided to do this, would still likely generate more tax revenue than they actually get back.

I often struggle between recommending it as the perfect all-around bike and keeping it a secret for those who are truly appreciative of the bike for what it is. 

At least we have the cheap second hand H-D market to look forward to as their customer base spends the next few years becoming too old to stand, let alone ride a motorcycle. 

Hah - seeing it in MI2 was the exact reason I bought a 955i Speed Triple. I was riding a NT650 Honda at the time (Speaking of ahead of its time) and to this day I still regret having sold it.

Triumph did all of that without a crystal ball during the 2003-09 time frame that Harley owned Buell. Yes, they were technologically ahead of the curve - but that wasn’t the thing holding them back. They made awesome streetfighters and a very competent ADV bike - the market all those types of bikes grew significantly…

Strongly disagree. 2003-2009 was about the time that Triumph essentially revived their whole brand by doing exactly what Harley didn’t. The XB9/12 should have been competing with the Street/Speed Triple, and the Ulysses could have carved itself out a nice space in a rapidly growing ADV bike market.

Like you said, they didn’t make bad products - they failed because Harley made some very poor business decisions about the future of their company. If you look at the trajectory of the motorcycle industry since Buell last went under - they were ripe to be the benchmark leader in a motorcycle segment (naked sport,…

I’m glad to see them back - they had some really great designs, innovative quirks and generally made some very cool bikes. Buell could and should have become THE benchmark for naked sportbikes and streetfighters - a motorcycle segment that has grown significantly since the company stopped making bikes.

I disagree - they would charge a white kid with hitting a police car. It’s just that for every white kid they do charge, 5 other black kids will get a worse charge for doing even less. 

You don’t think there’s a correlation between an institution that has systematically imprisoned black people at alarmingly disproportionate rates and protecting the agents of that institution at all costs?

Sadly, all too common for NYPD. Read the case of Ryo Oyamada here.

Literally all of the things you mentioned can be applied to Trump, and most are actually significantly worse when you apply those same standards to Trump. So no, it’s not really comparable. 

The difference being Trump directly incited them (They went directly from his rally straight to the Capitol) and then after the fact read a teleprompter apology as if he was on a Taliban hostage tape.

At that price? Absolutely not. There are plenty of other bikes to love that are better performing in every measurable way in addition to a better riding experience - all at around half the price. Pretty much the only reason to spend the money on a Harley at this point is to impress other Harley riders.

There are good tax breaks and bad tax breaks. I don’t mind corporations getting tax breaks if they’re accomplishing their intended purpose. A big issue is that corporate backed political lobbyists ensure that legislators build in loopholes they can exploit, and that needs to be remediated. It’s the reason we’re so…

Do you think legislative mandate is the only way to influence behavior? It won’t get everyone to work from home, but if more companies can realize a productivity, financial or tax benefit to letting their workforce work remotely, then why shouldn’t we promote that?

But if my truck isn’t the most obnoxiously big vehicle on the road, then how will people ever know how masculine I am?

At this point, he should have just bought a convertible. 

And yet here you are... on the internet... making a statement about what you think is right and wrong even though it won’t impact anyone.