This past summer my wife and I cruised to the seafood festival ,. It at one of the shore towns right on the beach. 1000.s of cars and lots and lots of bikes. It like a fashion show.
Well we found a parking space and parked in one side of it and invited another bike to share the spot with us. Parking is a problem at these events. We parked they parked. I was locking the helmets to the bike and these 3 guys on Harleys by some miracle found a spot open up a couple of spots down. They parked. They commented that Indian really outdid themselves with the new bike. (yes the volusia) I have no stickers on the bike and had already done considerable customization. They went on for a few minutes.
Complimenting this and that. One even said he wouldn't mine trading in his Harley for that bike. Said he thought it was one of the nicest bikes around. Commented on how much chrome I must have put on it.
I said. You whats even nicer about the bike. I said its a Suzuki. Well you could have seen there teeth drop right out of their mouth. One said . man they make a nice bike. Another said. There bikes look more like Harleys then harleys. The third guy was speechless. You can tell he was taken back.
This happens all the time. The VOl is a noice loking bike. We ride with a bunch of guys on Sunday. One has a mauraurder, a few Harleys, A gold wing and and a honda rebel and honda something else.
One of the other wives was commenting how her seat sucks and our is so nice. We have the mustang seat. She lit into her husband why he spent so much for the harley compared to the Volusia it sucks. I defended him(he a guy right) and said that if he sells it , it s more of an investment.
My wife later told me the guys wife is really pissed on the Harley purchase. She wants him to get rid of it and get a Volusia. He had to wait like 11 months for a part to his new bike. He got hit at one time. They had to get it a a swap meet at Sturgis.
He was out of the riding for months and rode a friend extra bike. A 250 honda rebel.
What could I say.
Another time I pulled into Home depot. I just came out of the store and there was a real nice. Like an west coast chopper bike. One of those real custom hugh bucks bikes. All chrome and flames etc. Really nice. Like on the tv. or at the shows. One of those 50,000 bikes.
He said nice bike. I said really. I commented on the flames and beautiful job. He said NO the other one. Thats the one I like. I said wow that ones mine. He asked how do you get a license in NJ. I told him where to go etc. Then the guy on the custom came out. Jumped on his bike, never said a word, put his clam dip helmet on and started up the bike,. (gave me an instant headache) and he took off.
All in a day on the Volusia
. As we walked out my wife spied a Victory parked next to my Vol. Her words were "your baby is prettier!" I just had to smile. 
