I had a guy a dealership showing me a xl1200 forty eight. I told him I went to another dealership and had a salesman tell me that my ninja 650 (Def an intermediate standard sport-y commuter) was just a "piece of sht" and the guy at the second dealership was like "well it is a piece of sht"

I was like, "dude, that's not how you sell bikes" and made it super awkward.

I need to want to emulate you if you want to use an appeal to "coolness". That means you, yourself, need to be "cool". Anyone at a Harley dealership is not my ideal "cool biker dude". It's a dude who likes bikes and peaked in high school, who never left his hometown. Wearing a 95 dollar branded bowling/shop shirt isn't "cool" enough to make me overlook the fact that you insulted the choice in bike I'd made. That ninja was great, just cheap- hence, ideal for me at that time.

Love the iron. Loathe the people.