Posted on 05/04/2008 4:29:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
HOG is going to be in for a rough ride for the next 5 years. A growing export market will help - but that that much.
When the posers and wannabes decide they can't afford that POS Softail, things are headed south.
What is HELOC?
I don't find the ad all that edgy. I would have done something like this:
Sell the house.
Sell the car.
Sell the kids.
Sell the wife.
Keep the bike.
I take it you don't like Softails. ;-) I favor the Sportster myself, but I guess I'm a traditionalist.
I don't get a newspaper but out here in the sticks "nine column inches" doesn't happen for anything, much less Harleys. I pay attention to what's posted on the local dealership's website, though. And they're running a lot of "special/reduced" lately.
Hell, if you unload all of the first four, you can probably afford to trade up to a NEW bike!
I don’t own a bike but look at it this way: at $15,000.00, heck look what toys are being bought for much more and used LESS, boats for one thing, travel trailers (”toy boxes”) another. Ah, I can hear it now, “Yes, but a FAMILY can use the boat and toy box”, yeah right, for the first few months, maybe first or second vacation then the boat sits gathering leaves and the toy boxes start deteriorating where the water seeped in on all that particle board...LOL!
Keep your bikes! Besides, we NEED Patriot Riders, when I see a Harley, that’s AMERICAN PRIDE rollin’ there. You bet, keep on through the fog Harley, it’ll clear up after a bit.
I guess that makes me a heretic.
Not to start a religious war, but I traded in the POS Softail for a BMW.
(If only the passing lane had a passing lane).
Further blasphemy: I believe Wild Turkey is far superior to Jack Daniels.
If Gas expenses keep going up there will be a HUGE market for motorcycles of all brands, including Harleys.
No religious war here. My first bike was an '81 Yamaha 850cc (3-cyl) sportster. I got no room to talk. ;-)
> Further blasphemy: I believe Wild Turkey is far superior to Jack Daniels.
No problem, I liked 'em both, when I drank whiskey. These days I drink tequila. When I drink, which is seldomer and seldomer. Can't seem to find the time any more. Dang.
Then again, I don't drink and ride, and I'd rather ride than drink.
Guys are putting their money into another investment. I’m getting reports that people are buying all the guns and ammunition they can afford.
I live out in the country.
"Edged"? What's "edged"? ;-)
I'd almost say "What's a lawn?", but I've heard about those. It's what some folks do with their front acreage when they're not using it for the garden. Or something like that.
And they'll still bitch because you generally want to put higher octane (read: more expensive) gas in the bike. There's just no pleasing some people.
My Dad and my Husband had their heads together over dinner the other night...
I hear we’re getting us a shiny new gun safe. Wa-Hoo! :)
As for the bikes, Husband had a total “crotch rocket” when we first married. He, of his OWN accord, decided to get rid of it because he now had me and a family; something else to live for, I guess, other than his “need for speed.”
I fully expect him to have a big old Hog in his later years, after he makes his “next million.” ;)
There's ways around that. Use regular and put the octane booster in.
About 3 bucks for a bottle that will get me almost 2,000 miles.
Boosts the octane more than I need, actually.
Yeah, good point. I used that stuff many years ago; haven't used it the last decade or so, forgot all about it! Might need to go back to it now...
Hooligan PING!
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