I spent most of my formative years in Centerville, OH, a suburb of Dayton. C'ville PD bought a whole new fleet of Honda bikes for their motorcycle officers. A bit of time passed, and somebody got the bright idea that "we're an American PD, we ought to be riding American bikes." So they replaced the whole fleet again, this time, with Harleys.Harley was dead in the 80s, Reagan put a import tax on motorcycles over 800cc so they could compete. That's why you see Honda making 750cc cruiser bikes. Harley is JUNK. Outdated, overpriced, and protected to stay in business. I agree with tRidoit, we employ cheap labor, buy from countries where the people are poor, and want there products for nothing.
To a man, every officer liked the Hondas better.
Honda bikes are made just up the road from Dayton, in Marysville, OH (in fact, when I was doing my flight training, I landed in Marysville a time or two).
Idiots.