[Jeff Higgins]

Again, all of the problems you attribute to the Twinkie only begin to manifest themselves in high performance applications. In its stock configuration, it has proven to be far and a way the most reliable, long lived H-D Big Twin to date. By a considerable margin. Comparing Shovel or Evo reliability and longevity to that of the Twin Cam is laughable. I've owned all of them at one time or another. Nothing preceding the Twin Cam even came close.

You will notice that the "page upon page or internet information" is almost entirely people repeating something they heard, with no first hand experience. Seems way too many denizens of the internet are eager to demonstrate what they "know" - it's the nature of the beast. Before you know it, these things become "common knowledge", and take on a life of their own, and people with no knowledge or experience become even more eager to repeat it, so they can present themselves as "experts".

I'll take my real world, first hand experience and that of my riding partners over that kind of nonsense any time. My first Twin Cam was the most trouble free vehicle I have ever owned, on two wheels or four, and my second one is shaping up the same way.