I always get a laugh out of the people that are like...I'm buying an "AMERICAN" made motorcycle, not that Japanese crap. Did you know that the forks on the Harleys are made by Showa....a Honda owned company? Did you know that the Brembo brakes aren't American made either? A majority of the electronics that are on the Harleys are Japanese made! When I worked in motorcycle sales, you couldn't find an American made piece of Harley branded clothing in the Harley Davidson dealership! What's up with that....riding an "American" made Harley with Japanese parts, then getting pissed off when someone else prefers another brand? I'm not saying that pissed off person is YOU, I'm saying that there is a lot of folks walking around with blinders on....trying to be something that they are not. The Japanese products from years ago were in fact, mostly junk, everyone knew that and made fun of that. But the Japanese adapted.....figuring out how to build better and better products. Their success pushed, for example, the American car industry to make a choice....either start building better cars to compete with their Japanese competitors, or lose marketshare. If forced a lot of the industries to improve their products because most people would rather spend their hard earned money for a quality product than to spend the same amount, maybe more, on inferior products. It's reality. You can love it, you can hate it, or you can just ignore it....but the bottom line is that the available product choices of many things have improved tremendously over the years. The Chinese are going through that very same thing right now, that the Japanese did 50 years ago. They will improve also....which will, in the end, cause the American industry to improve their products to a higher quality.....or they will fall behind and lose marketshare.