Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

lol umm guys, its just a temporary closure because of covid....

HD has had a pretty good run in the last decade....

and believe it or not, its in large part because of the young millennials getting into the HD scene through club style bikes and wheelies....

and for the record, the new Indians are cute and all I love the revival of the brand and all, but they suck and anything out of polaris is junk....

there should be no question that HD has a bigger following than Indian...


HD aint going anyway, there is a reason they have a EV HD offering now....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx9RjhUgDsU

 

So. This is like... dirt biking ? But with street legal high powered bikes ?

 

Not saying I don’t love my street
Bob..but H-D has 5 years of pretty big declining sales. They’ve also let go of about 700 people , considering only about 6,000 people work for Harley ( not counting their home location ).


Shutting down a part of any company because of COVID is huge. Look at all huge name brand companies going out of business because of COVID. I’m not hinting H-D would go out of business. But COVID isn’t going anywhere, this is just the start.

I’m curious to see where they end up after all of this.

 

So you're not a fan of the slingshot ?? lol



I like their older quads, and a RZR out in the dunes would be a lot of fun

 

Don’t forget HD moved manufacturing overseas

 

dang yea i gotta say i was in the dark here, i was not aware how much of a down fall they have been... (with the covid stuff aside)

i really felt like there was a strong resurgence of the brand these last few years...


https://www.motorcyclesdata.com/2020/06/01/harley-davidson/

 

Yah. There's a whole following. Its like TW but on 2 wheels

 

I forgot about that. I remember Trump saying he was going to tax them hard for doing that.. idk

 

This kind of opened my eyes like 7 months ago about how bad of shape they are in..and since then, they've replaced their CEO. We'll see how they fare over the next year. Their stock has actually gone up a decent amount over the last month, I was surprised.

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tre...is-earnings-show-weakness-beneath-the-surface

 

It's like pretending to dirt bike with bikes that are too heavy to actually dirt bike with. The HP does nothing for you if you're just spinning the tires everytime you go full gas.

That being said, I do ADV and it's a blast taking a 500lb bike places where it has no business going haha. Someday I'll put together video from a ride last summer of narrow single track on the F800. Here's an older (3yrs maybe?) video of me farting around in a national forest

 

Advrider.com

A lot of them are more fireroad oriented stuff though not really hardcore offroad stuff

 

I for the most part fall into that category and am on ADVRider

 

That is why I am contemplating the XC over the XE, but I have seen some XE's priced at XC pricing so my thought is why not go for the extra suspension travel so I can say I have it even though I would rarely, if at all, use it.

 

haha its all good. bout all my 690e would be good for, id rather ride my 300 anything more offroad oriented. a 500exc would be the perfect in between bike

 

Agree, there's some nicely kitted out ones out there. I've been eyeing a perfectly outfitted crf450 that parks in the same garage as me. Sigh, someday. GF says I can't get another bike until I get rid of one because she still wants to park in the garage and we can't fit anymore in

 

The Icon has suspension travel. Just not as much as the Desert Sled

 

Quick run up 3k feet on the SV this morning. Nothing like a spirited ride to unwind

 

Haha. Mine says the same so i understand. Im eyeing the superduke 1290 as my next bike but oof at the price.

 

Come on guys! Basic motorcycle math states the correct number of bikes you should own = N+1 where N = the number you own now. Simple really!

 

Mt Diablo?