I'm not doubting your GREAT deal, but I guarantee for the money you spent, you could have bought a metric bike of much better quality. I don't completely hate HD's, in fact a lot of my close friends ride them exclusively and constantly give me shit for whatever Jap bike I'm riding at the time. The funny thing is, every single one of these friends at one point owned a metric bike but as soon as they went HD, their attitude completely changed. It's more amusing than anything. So while I don't necessarily care for the HD's, I don't hate them either. It's more the attitude of the typical HD owner that we all hate on.