I’m pretty sure they do in fact hand out participation trophies and recognition plaques just for buying one lmao
hOW many librals . . Does it take too change light? bulb
NONE!.! theyre to busy. THEIR GENDER 🤣🤣🤣
you joke, but…
I found a thread for this in a Harley-Davidson forum and one of the responses opened with
They can’t even figure out what gender they want to be.
They don’t know how to drive a manual.beyond parody
At least there’s one person in there who at least kinda gets it:
- Millennials aren’t swayed by the image Harley markets and sells to attract new buyers.
- Harley waited way too long to try to do anything to update their product line to attract the interest of Millennials.
- Harley priced themselves out of the Millennial market with new offerings geared towards the millennial crowd. Imports are still much cheaper and with much higher levels of performance and quality control.
- Most Millenials think the majority of Harley riders are middle aged posers desperately trying to recapture their youth. They can’t be swayed by the marketing.
You could swap “Harley” for “Gibson” and it would all still be true.
Never been much of a gearhead, so I wasn’t even aware there was Gibson discourse! Are sales of Epiphones/Gibsons on the decline? They’re nice guitars, I suppose, but I prefer a thinner neck myself.
They’re kinda crap quality and appeal to all the Clapton stans mostly
I thought that asshole played a fender?
Grew up in Milwaukee
Had to put up with Harley Days
Entire city gets put on hiatus for 100,000 bikers to roar downtown and make absolute shitasses of themselves
Fuck all the way off
i hereby proclaim that every generation after millennials are also millennials forever henceforth!
no gods no generations.
i mean that’s what they think anyways lets make this official
Millennial now means a person who grew up between 2000 and 3000
motorcycles
bicycles
also ngl I thought this was fake, but regardless of whether it is or not this Harley forum was eating it up.
One of my favorite exchanges:
what i think would attract the younger riders into buying is show sexy young women posing on the bikes in there advertisements…
nope. Have to make an app for it, and showcase it in a video game. These youngsters wouldnt know what to do with a good woman if she sat on their faces.
the absolute state of boomerbrains
M’am, [tips cowboy hat] please sit on my face.
As a millennial literally shopping around for a motorcycle right now: Your shit is easily 2-3x what a comparable Japanese bike costs. Update your shit to not be comically overpriced and I might think about it. But as it stands, the only way I’ll ever ride a Harley is if I get it for free and even then I’d sell it for a Ducati or something like it
What kind of bike are you looking at?
I haven’t decided yet. A standard or cruiser would be great but a sport bike is calling to me. A more “sensible” part of me wants a dual sport so I can more safely ride it in the winter however flawed that thinking is. I would love any recommendations if you have them.
I ride a cafe racer but my use case is strictly as a toy. I have a sensible daily driver that gets good gas mileage and gets me to the grocery store. I don’t ever have to ride in weather if I don’t want to.
I don’t think a dual sport gets you riding in the winter. That’s a good use case if you like to go on trails and such. I wouldn’t recommend riding in any ice conditions. Even if your motorcycle is your only mode of transportation, honestly, I’d call an Uber if it’s icy.
Half of buying a bike is finding one you think looks cool 🙂.
I have access to vehicles if I need to but I stubbornly love riding through shitty weather. I rode through two winters on my previous bike although I do acknowledge it was pretty stupid. I never had to ride in snowy or icy conditions thankfully.
I’m from an area that classically gets a ton of snow but based on the last few years I’m not sure how true that will be for long
I’ve contemplated buying a bike, Harleys start at double what you’d pay for an equivalent Honda. You can crank two hogs for the price of one.
Fucking stick shift and clutch perverts are pathetic. Automatic transmission is older than I am and considering yourself superior because you can use long obsolete technology is fucking stupid. Bet you can’t drive an ox wagon, buttercup!
Manuals are absolutely not obsolete technology in many parts of the world. It’s only really in the USA where every car is automatic.
Do people outside of America think they’re better for doing so?
Not really everyone wants to afford an automatic car if they just use it for a commute. Manual cars suck in rush hour traffic. For off road 4×4 vehicles and other utility vehicles, a good 6 speed manual, with a transfer case with low range and a set of locking differentials offers you the ability to get pretty much anywhere and is much less complicated than some electronic 4 wheel drive system.
However if you do your licence test in an automatic car, you get a license that only allows you to drive automatics. So almost everyone does their test in a manual car, and knows how to drive manual at some point.
