For me the harley is the soft option, low power outputs and barge like handling. Beginners should all start on cruisers, learn the basics and then move onto more powerful bikes.
What bugs me about some harley riders is their contempt for japanese products which borders on racism. Japanese bikes are far better than American bikes. If they had been inovative instead of using the same pushrod style motor for 50 years then maybe they wouldn't have to rely on their bad boy image to sell stuff. H-D make more money from t-shirts than they do from actual bike sales.
They're also a company with an ageing customer base, most owners are 45+. Younger riders want better than H-D have to offer.
As for the SV, the power output is the same as mid-eighties Ducati racers. Funny how now that outputs are 100BHP+ for most bikes, we forget so quickly that 70BHP for a 650 is a lot of grunt.
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