You would have to go through the crap of having your Triumph tat removed,... tough break. Personally I think you ought to get one at the small of your back that says "please finish quickly"....
...Here is your answer for you to the harley as show bike query. I was typing it while you wimped out and chose best answer...
..If you want an HD just for show, then you have way more money than brains. Simple as that. Ride it 10 miles, ride it 100 per day,...its your call.
But know this, understand it, and at least TRY to get this through your thick skull: You ain't gonna impress someone that doesn't need or want to be impressed. Other harley riders don't care! You cannot show off to someone that doesn't need to be shown anything! Your desperate need for attention, acceptance, and affirmation is evident by your incessant pandering & harassment of harley riders and their choice of equipment. You want respect? EARN IT. You want to be accepted? ACT LIKE IT. Don't like vibration? grow a set of nuts, will ya? I suppose your Japanese bikes run and purr like a kitten with ZERO vibration? Not hardly. You take this as an insult? tough. shut up and ride. Put down the wii and get out there and ride for chrissakes!
Your confession that you rode a friend's bike "better" than he could? thats subjective and arrogant. Do you not understand HE owns the bike? That means he doesn't WANT the bike to do that. That means you abused your relationship due to the fact he did not ask you to wheelie the thing. He didn't know it would wheelie because he didn't want to know. If he has any self respect whatsoever he told you where to get off. When you follow other riders and you are frustrated by ordinary behavior, it only serves to indicate deep seeded feelings of a misguided superiority, which is actually masquerading insecurity. They are not losers; You THINK you are a loser, therefore you THINK you need to be better. They ride their bikes the way they want to. You need to understand: its their right to ride the thing as they see fit. Its highly unlikely you can ride their bike "better than him". Engaging in narcissistic self promotion is not impressive AT ALL. Judge not, lest ye be judged... you ever heard THAT before? It applies to the prospect of you buying a harley as well: go ahead and buy and pay what YOU think is right....and quit with the never-ending anti harley rants. If your gonna ride one you cannot necessarily talk sh*t about it can you?