Harley-Davidson adjusts to hard times - Sep. 17, 2010 (http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/17/autos/harley_davidson_fall.fortune/index.htm?hpt=C2)

Not that I will run right out an buy one. :whistle:

Don't care for that particular model. Was thinking more along the lines of a new Street Glide or Road King, but have to wait awhile for that one.

Don't care for that particular model. Was thinking more along the lines of a new Street Glide or Road King, but have to wait awhile for that one.


Indeed... Street Glide is my pick...

Or course, the wife liked the road king :lol:

after expanding exuberantly in the last decade, Harley has fallen on hard times. Now it is struggling against a foe that not even cost-cutting nor brand loyalty can overcome: demographics. Its current owners are getting old, and not enough younger ones are coming up behind them.
So they disband Buell which made sport bikes attractive to younger buyers :crazy:

I want one, but hubby says go find myself a biker guy. That ain't happening, gonna get my own bike one day!

"Nobody bought Harleys for transportation"?

mmm.... not... I have 50k on my 07 RKC... My bro has 105k on his 06 Sportster... It was the yuppie crowd that decided they'd look cool on a Harley, that bought the bikes to show off in their garage... Every day you can see 5-6 year old bikes coming on the market with less than 5,000 miles on them... They should have just bought cages.

At a PGR mission last Saturday, I had 22 bikes show up... about 50/50 between HD and metrics... The youngest guy on an HD was probably in mid/late 40s... Youngest guy on metric was 19... The really old fart was of course on a Goldwing...
:evil:

I want to trade my '99 Valkyrie Interstate in for an Ultra Limited, but then of course I'm a gray-beard as well... and the economy sux... The good news for HD is my kids all want HD as well... My son demo'd a VRod yesterday... as an E3 he's going to have to save up for awhile though!