Comments on: Harley Davidson Leaving the Sidecar Business

By: glen mack

glen mack — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:16:07 +0000

I am very interested in a complete late model harley sidecar preferably black. If anyone has any infomation on one, I am willing to travel and pay reasonable dollars.
I need one for this riding season

By: dom

dom — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:27:32 +0000

While I am not a HD rider, it’s a shame they’re out of the sidecar business as the ones I’d see where quite well made and looked quite striking.

Ironically, this announcement from HD comes on at same time I had posted a review of a couple of Hungarians who rode around the world from 1928-1936 on a Harley Davidson sidecar rig! Back then the roads, were sometimes nonexistent when compared to today’s infrastructure worldwide and their HD made it all the way through the 170,000 Kilometers ridden!

I hope Kneeslider will permit this link, so HD aficionados can read what a Harley from the late 20′s accomplished.

Around the World on a Motorcycle – Sulkowsky

By: Chris R

Chris R — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:14:39 +0000

I didn’t see exiting the sidecar biz really is worth the hipe. Just another management PR statement to show they are IN Charge and making changes. Big fricken deal. Try making changes that make a difference like producing a real new bike that is affordable instead of reinventing “sporter” models especially ones that try to compete with the sport bike class, what a joke. Also if they want to make a difference to the bottom line get rid of the unbalanced cam engines that shake, rattle and roll, and produce one V-twin with a balanced cam like what is on the Softail line and use it across the board. This will improve the touring class brand and cut operation costs. If Harley wants to do something to improve and save the company, get rid of the upper management team starting from the CEO on down.

By: Tinman

Tinman — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:06:54 +0000

It is truly wonderfull to see all the concern about HDs ability to survive this financial crisis. Im sure upper management is following these comments very closely trying to find a new direction for the future. After all, they lost 50 million in one quarter last year, forget about the profits for the 20 years before that and the 139 million profit last quarter, they need guidence from the internet. What Fun!!

By: bblix

bblix — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:18:49 +0000

chief,

Not sure anyone outside of the H-D production stream would know much about “Skater”…that was a big disappointment when it was canned–couldn’t make it’s price-point. My thought was they should have then figured out how to justify the cost that they were coming up with (value add) to make it work. It was a really nice product line.