I hope they lose their shirts with their china made junk bikes
Plus the younger generation is buying hondas and yamahas because they also want to buy a house or a regular car as well
Harley still doesn’t get it
$30 grand for an electric bike?? Why the hell would I pay for that when for half the price I can get a better bike that’s real.
The younger generation has been buying Asian bikes since the 1960s.
They're buying Indians, too. That's really got the slickie-boys in Milwaukee and York worried.
Harley had a groove going for many decades. Its line rises or falls with that groove.
I think there is something durable and legendary about the image of the “Hog rider.” If Harley doesn’t get ultra stupid about this, it could continue to ride on that groove for quite a while. They don’t really need a motorcycle answer to the Tesla for that, though it would send their racing into a new scene.
I’ve already locked horns with a dyed in the wool isolationist about world trade. We are where we are with China; the best thing we can do is to wield our influence wisely (the alternative would be to regress and punish ourselves). It turns out that China is getting so greedy with its socialist schemes and dreams that it doesn’t take much of a tariff to really upset its applecart — to make those schemes and dreams fall short. “That’s a nice country you got there, China. It would be such a shame if it went down the tubes after all the pollution you suffered in order to try to become financial king of the world. Now can we negotiate a little? What would you think about Make China Clean Again? And we have such wonderful pollution control technology which is why our fruited plain is so beautiful now. Cha-ching!”