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Harley-Davidson CEO Resigns
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krakum1967
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They have also consistently failed to attract, address, or contend with new riders, and their affordability? Yea. I have owned four, lost major money on all four, all four were performance disappointments, and I stopped wasting money on them, pushed one once a little too far, and I will never go back to that brand. I have to agree on the paint though, theirs is second to none. And I will admit the Softail Deluxe in Corral and Creme used to break my neck whenever I saw one in the shop or on the street. That was a pretty model.
Tango
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All of their chrome is now Chinese, Taiwan. Shocks, forks, made by Showa which is owned by Honda. Cast wheels are made in Australia by a co. owned by Honda. Brakes are first class Brembo's. It's now a world bike not meeting USA made minimums. FI was Mitsubishi, but now made by a GM offshoot. Gorgeous bikes, expensive and heavy. :thumbup: Tom :spyder:
WisconsinDavid
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I'm a Wisconsin guy, a pastor, and a former parish was near the Harley factories in Menomonee Falls, WI. Half of my church rode them, many worked for them, so I would have been run out if I rode a Honda from my youth (not really, church people are forgiving, right?!). 
Back in the day, the guys and gals who worked at Harley could buy a bike cheaply and then resell it after a year, making money on it and rolling it over to purchase the new model to do the same with... over and over. That all changed around the Harley 100th. The 100th birthday was amazing - a sea of bikes - a parade downtown Milwaukee that had to limit riders. Everyone was crazy for Harley. It was a big party. I even got the privilege of marrying a couple on a Harley stage the weekend of the Harley 100th. Here was the problem: People who never should have bought big bikes without experience, bought them, tried to ride them and there were a lot of dead folks because of it. The next year following the 100th, most of those bikes bought on a whim to be part of the party, were up for sale... and the resale value on a used Harley dropped from a flooded market and has never recovered. A friend is an engineer there and I was telling him way back in the day that the HD nameplate needed to have an entry, cool bike at a pricepoint that the young folks could afford and wanted. Without that, with an aging customer base, bad clouds were on the horizon. So far that seems to be playing out as I suspected. Again, I sure hope some new vision can breath life into a declining company... there are lots of folks in WI and friends here, whose financial futures currently are staked on it.
Back in the day, the guys and gals who worked at Harley could buy a bike cheaply and then resell it after a year, making money on it and rolling it over to purchase the new model to do the same with... over and over. That all changed around the Harley 100th. The 100th birthday was amazing - a sea of bikes - a parade downtown Milwaukee that had to limit riders. Everyone was crazy for Harley. It was a big party. I even got the privilege of marrying a couple on a Harley stage the weekend of the Harley 100th. Here was the problem: People who never should have bought big bikes without experience, bought them, tried to ride them and there were a lot of dead folks because of it. The next year following the 100th, most of those bikes bought on a whim to be part of the party, were up for sale... and the resale value on a used Harley dropped from a flooded market and has never recovered. A friend is an engineer there and I was telling him way back in the day that the HD nameplate needed to have an entry, cool bike at a pricepoint that the young folks could afford and wanted. Without that, with an aging customer base, bad clouds were on the horizon. So far that seems to be playing out as I suspected. Again, I sure hope some new vision can breath life into a declining company... there are lots of folks in WI and friends here, whose financial futures currently are staked on it.Similar threads
