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I mentioned what HD is doing to a diehard HD owner at work yesterday to get his thoughts. If his reaction is an indicator of how the HD owners feel then my thoughts is HD should rethink their move overseas. Whether or not they care to admit these guys are the core of their business-profits and have been for decades.
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Good post! No public corporation is making a decision such as this in rapid response to a tweet.
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Believe HD's announcement was "pretweet". As your customer base "ages out" it only makes sense to move production where profits are maximized. It is the global economy.
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Just noticed this ancient thread. I don't have one but I had 10 or 11 bikes over a 25+? year period; haven't had one nor the desire for one in about 30 years even though there was a time that I thought I would always have one. I see the thread started with a dirt bike. I briefly had a lightly used James Cotswold 250. I found the pic below. I remember that it was produced with a Villiers engine and forks from the Norton Atlas road bike which were modified for more travel. This was before the Japanese "invasion". The last bike I had was the only Harley I ever had even though I was interested in them since I was a preteen and that was before electric starters. It was a new Sportster. The new wife wanted something and getting anything new was pushing it $$-wise at the time. The one before that was my most fun one as it went like jet stink; a new '88 or '89? Yamaha Vmax. It looked like the net pic below with it's black faux air horns. The gas tank was also faux and the actual one was under the seat ala Goldwing. Actually, the color was more metallic red. It was the only bike in the muscle bike category; a 600#, 1200cc 4-stroke that redlined at 10,000 or 10,500. 0-60 2.9, 1/4 mile 10.9. There were 600cc sport bikes at the time that were as quick or quicker. _________________________________ ________________________ __
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A friend of mine had a Norton Commando, the successor to the Atlas I believe. I had the new Honda 750 Super Hawk at that time. I remember that it was $1601 out the door. I don't know why I've always remembered that because the only other purchase price of any vehicle I remember is that the '59 Porsche was $1400. It just occured to me that I was an early adopter with that bike, which is probably the only time I could say that about anything. I always liked the idea of a Royal Enfield Interceptor, but I don't remember ever seeing one in the wild. _________________ _____________________ ________________________ ______________________ __
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