Sooo... basically, you have to spend about twice as much to replace all the crap parts, and you end up with a heavy slow bike that is still less made in USA than a Honda Goldwing?
Define “slow”.
My Night Train is 97 inches and I can go as fast I ~want~ to.
Wisely, I never want to go so fast that they’ll have to DNA test the highway to identify my remains.
Some of us do not feel the need to prove anything by going “really fast”.
And, FYI, only our last few bikes have been “bought whole”.
All the others were built from the ground up with raw steel and swap meet parts.
[we are a bike building company, ya know]