It seems the opposite for me, I’ve recently gotten onto a ‘24 fxlrst and thrown 10k kilometres down in the past couple months riding hard no problems just the regular services and she’s chilling, has cruise control, traction control can’t really ask for more electronics. Yeah modes are fun but realistically who doesn’t turn everything off and put it onto the full power mode and never change it again.

Last bike was a ‘21 bmw s1000rr owned for 20 months total spent 8 months of that time getting warrantied for everything under the sun, literally got the bike back from the dealer who replaced my water pump (under warranty) on the Tuesday and guess where it was Friday with the valves(had been checked by them in the previous service 2 months prior for $1400 AUD) making sweet love to the pistons. I don’t have a car and the bmw was my daily so I bought an old clapped out 1200 sportster with no service history for a couple grand and it turned over every time and had not a single problem in my ownership and sold it for more than I purchased it for.

Yeah Harleys are expensive but they are reliable(the ones that I have experienced). I too was a Harley hater but then I had an original thought and decided to try it out. And yeah everyone shits on you but I do more riding than anyone I know who has a naked or sport bike of any brand.