Joe Namath....
Joe Namath was such a stud media hero back in the day, that's what made the commercial funny.
Cadillac had a lot of help from the cross platform compatibility as well as the marketing blitz. Putting their latest gen ATS cars on the same platform that your average Cruze is based from and selling it for 65,000 goes a long way to making a turn around. HD doesn't have the luxury, aside from putting chrome spoke wheels on a leather couch and calling it an FLHC and trying to sell it for more than any other market bikes... You think they would have learned something after not being able to sustain EBR (which probably had a better business model than HD had for it's own bikes)...
You mean my ATS is really a Cruze?
^- This.
Fewer and fewer kids play outside these days. They don't learn to ride bicycles. Motorcycles seem too skeery for many young men raised on soy milk, xbox, and surveillance camera nannies.
Plus, the teenagers who watched Joe Namath and Peter Fonda ride Harley's in the 1970's at the drive-in theater are now too old to ride.
It depends on the year James.
Nailed it on the young-us.
Hey ... get off my lawn!
Now the 250 Elsinore, that was something special/
There are two kinds of people...
Those who bought this wall poster at the record store when they were 13 years old, and those who did not.
Just imagine if Harley had diversified their product line.
There is no valid reason they couldn't build a KLR 650ish bike.
Read today that Harley invested in Alta Motors. They are into electric mx, Mxr, supermoto, and a new enduro coming out also from what I read. Wonder where they are going with that ?
They've Almost got the range. What really needs to be worked out is charging time.