Yep. When I replaced my trees there was barely any grease in the bearings.

I didn't fill the neck though. I reckon that is a waste of grease. I. Just made sure bith ends were well packed.

Get a harley manual and it recommends a service interval and to apply grease until it purges from seals
I have follows this and bearing are sweet

Ando - I still reckon that is a complete waste of grease, and in some cases will end up with grease all over your front end.

Filling the neck with grease is fine for the lower bearing - thanks to gravity, but the top one will not get any more. So why fill it!

If HD recommend that in their manual, I wonder why they don't pracitce that at the factory?? Mine was almost dry when I opened it.

Anyways... just my 0.2

 My 2012 Softail Deluxe has a grease nipple in the headstock.

Grease is cheap and you don't use that much, but my way of thinking is if you don't fill it and purge it when manual recommends then top bearing will be dry and you will actually never push out the old grease and fill with new

and I use the nipply to pump in grease and wipe of any old grease purged and never had the steering head grease make a mess of my bike or any head bearing issues

I just thing the grease nipple on the neck is for the lazy mechanic! What it does is saves you from ripping the front end off. You simply keep pumping grease into the neck until it purges.

Depending on your bike, and what setup you have in your workshop, it's not that hard to pull the neck off and grease the bearings.

Just my way of thinking, but each to their own I guess.

Cheers
M