Posted on 01/30/2018 11:52:04 AM PST by Red Badger
Yeah i heard about that, front end design at least was innovative. I ride both a 1995 and a 1993 and have 4 more older ones as projects.
I mean build it in America, or else a tariff will get place on it i think.
Yep .... forgot about the cost of new hogs.
Reagan’s years.
Over priced, old 1938 engine design, expensive parts, chain drive, ............................
Belt drive!...............hey, they’re up to 1980!.................
Agreed. Most everyone I see on these things are 60+ years old. For one thing, wealthy retirees are the only ones who can afford them. The aftermarket business is very high. Most older people buy them because their friends have one. They ride it a few times and find they don’t like it as much as they thought.
It really is a dying business model.
“metrosexual fags “
Accountants and dentists seem to ride them. Not many people can afford a $27,000 motorcycle.
Way back when Reagan inadvertently caused Japanese bike manufacturers to increase production of their products in the U.S. (and build more factories, incidentally).... Ahh, the good old days.
Just like the movie Wild Hogs.
They bought the design rights to the "TriHawk" of which something like 99 were made in the mid 80's. Think Lotus 7 with 3 wheels to get around auto-regs, and did the skid pad better than the Vette back in the day.
Whilst they would need to re-engine it to one of theirs, it is a good design, I am flummoxed about this business decision....
The company is now run by Harvard MBAs who don’t know crap about motorcycles.......................
They have so much potential. How about Mil-Spec bikes / UTV burning heavy fuel, they have the engineering expertise and the checks never bounce. The MBA's better wake up, us boomers are thinning out and they need something beyond that natural market.
They have taken the company and tried to make it run like a Car dealership.
The HD dealership here went from a small building with a few bikes in the showroom, to a huge building with hundreds of bikes on the parking lot in rows upon rows.
That is NOT the way to sell motorcycles.......................
Harvard MBAs don’t know crap about anything except torpedoing their employers.
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