Comments on: Harley Davidson Gets New Leadership http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/07/harley-davidson-gets-new-leadership/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/07/harley-davidson-gets-new-leadership/#comment-229020 steve Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:06:26 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=5192#comment-229020 I hope they can take us into a new world but still are able to keep the best of the old. At 62 and having 4 bikes, 3 S&S powered and 1vintage Triumph), I don't ever plan on buying a new bike again (just rebuild what I have) but that doesn't mean I don't want to see new product for others. In this day it can't be that hard to build a competitive machine to put in your show room (just expensive to create). We want to see new product and I hope the MV conection comes full circle but we also want to see the present continue on. I hope they can take us into a new world but still are able to keep the best of the old. At 62 and having 4 bikes, 3 S&S powered and 1vintage Triumph), I don’t ever plan on buying a new bike again (just rebuild what I have) but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to see new product for others. In this day it can’t be that hard to build a competitive machine to put in your show room (just expensive to create). We want to see new product and I hope the MV conection comes full circle but we also want to see the present continue on.

]]> By: nobody http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/07/harley-davidson-gets-new-leadership/#comment-227957 nobody Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:51:58 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=5192#comment-227957 What bikes have "street cred"? Where does "street cred" come from? What is "street cred" anyway? Who is fit or unfit to discern "street cred"? What bikes have “street cred”?

Where does “street cred” come from?

What is “street cred” anyway?

Who is fit or unfit to discern “street cred”?

]]> By: ace http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/07/harley-davidson-gets-new-leadership/#comment-227945 ace Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:03:36 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=5192#comment-227945 "You can get on one of these bikes and really enjoy your ride." Not if it's a Nightster you can't. Good God that's an awful machine - terrible leg position and the suspension is a cruel joke. Harley's not currently selling superior motorcycles, it's selling an image to folks who still sadly think riding a Hog gives them some sort of badass street cred. “You can get on one of these bikes and really enjoy your ride.”

Not if it’s a Nightster you can’t. Good God that’s an awful machine – terrible leg position and the suspension is a cruel joke. Harley’s not currently selling superior motorcycles, it’s selling an image to folks who still sadly think riding a Hog gives them some sort of badass street cred.

]]> By: frozenprairie http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/07/harley-davidson-gets-new-leadership/#comment-227890 frozenprairie Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:11:46 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=5192#comment-227890 I often hear or read that Harley riders are all about "the biker image". Well, some may be, but isn't that also true of many sport bike riders - dressed like Ben Spies but never setting a wheel on a race track? I often hear or read that Harley riders are all about “the biker image”. Well, some may be, but isn’t that also true of many sport bike riders – dressed like Ben Spies but never setting a wheel on a race track?

]]> By: B*A*M*F http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/07/harley-davidson-gets-new-leadership/#comment-227855 B*A*M*F Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:33:30 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=5192#comment-227855 Randy, some of those statements weren't true in the AMF years. Harley has chased a number of fads and dead ends. The had a scooter at one point. They bought Aermacchi and built all sorts of great little bikes that have no relavance to the Motor Company's current line. I'm not anti-Harley, just indifferent. I am only mildly interested in one, maybe two, of their offerings. And even those would not keep me from cross shopping Triumphs and the air cooled Ducatis. Buells, on the other hand, are really interesting to me. I guess I just don't get the hefty cruiser bike thing. Randy, some of those statements weren’t true in the AMF years. Harley has chased a number of fads and dead ends. The had a scooter at one point. They bought Aermacchi and built all sorts of great little bikes that have no relavance to the Motor Company’s current line.

I’m not anti-Harley, just indifferent. I am only mildly interested in one, maybe two, of their offerings. And even those would not keep me from cross shopping Triumphs and the air cooled Ducatis. Buells, on the other hand, are really interesting to me. I guess I just don’t get the hefty cruiser bike thing.

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