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Corporate suicide watch: Harley-Davidson plans to go all-electric

 
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Loud pipes save lives. Being on a whisper quiet bike is dangerous for the rider
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Maybe you can push a button and it will make loud blub blub noises lol
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When a Harley has plastic in it, it is no longer a Harley. It is a disgrace to the name.
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the classics were all steel, iron, brass, bronze, and aluminum

they started using some plastic in the 70s with the AMF "take over / rescue"
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Thread: Norwegian Ferry Company BANS Electric Vehicles for FIRE Danger

I guess they won't be taking ferries in certain countries. And if (as has been mentioned) the Norwegian deal has to do with Insurance....you can bet anywhere that uses ferry systems (like where i live) will be soon to follow because the insurers will DEMAND it. WTF are the Mainland HA's going to do to get to Angel Acres outside of Nanaimo, or their massive property holdings in Powell River? Fly their bikes over? Rent barges? Meh.
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Good.
I am absolutely sick of overweight male Karens with manicures buying bikes to recapture the youth they never had.
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Just buy an old bike and restore it...


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Harleys are old school and the boom booms are dropping like flies . Snow Flakes and those others aren't riding. Dealerships are closing all over the country. byekitty
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I'll stick with my KLR.
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The current harley CEO is an out of touch lefty. The company will fail.
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That CEO didn't just decide one day "electric = good" All CEOs get gaslighted by Government to do what they want them to do and they comply, then they get tax breaks etc...
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Riders will gravitate to the Indian .Made in USA.spirit lake I.A
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Harley lost it's appeal a loooooong time ago.

All I ever see riding them no a days are elderly boomers and trashy fatasses that probably bought used for half the original cost.

The brand has been trash since the 80's.
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They can change their name to Hardly.

Hardly Motorcycles, something like the real thing!
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Meanwhile, I get 50 MPG on my bike, so it qualifies as a high efficiency vehicle...
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Their customer base, Boomers are dying. GenX doesn't have the money as we're spending on college for our kids. Millennials don't even know how to ride a bike with a full body suit and Generation Z will still be living in my basement
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Anything masculine and or American they are trying to destroy. Like the Boy Scouts, they want Harley emasculated. Sad
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I can’t think of a worse example of a corporate CEO misreading his customer base than this via the Robb Report...
 Quoting: StellaBlue

There are literally millions of HD motorcycles out there, anyone who wants a thumping, dirty great out-of-date motorcycle has got one or can easily buy one from a Boomer who are now too old to handle such heavy machines.

The days of huge, far too heavy motorcycles are over. Younger people do not want such stupidly heavy bikes that are so expensive to repair and so easily damaged.

I am speaking as a 63 year old who has ridden motorcycles the whole of my life. I still own a Yamaha FJR 1300.

Our generation went on buying ever more bigger, powerful, faster, heavier, more expensive, motorcycles with shiny easily damaged trim that is expensive to replace. The motorcycles often requiring two people to move them backwards when off flat smooth surfaces.

Big expensive touring bikes days are numbered, and HD full well understand this.

Big heavy motorcycles became madness - I admit this to myself... Anyone want to swap a nice Yamaha FJR 1300 for something smaller. Reason for selling - I got old and am no longer able to manage it. Condition: immaculate, only ridden during summer months, reluctant sale!
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Any large bike manufacturer making this decision is gonna go bust fast...
That said, the days are numbered for them all imo. The world is heading towards all electric and at some point driverless and motorcycles will ultimately be banned sadly, just a matter of time....
I hate that thought btw...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57594442


It's impossible to go all electric.

It's impossible to go 50% electric.

The grid can't handle it. At 0.41% electric vehicles in California it is causing them to ration power.

The charging infrastructure isn't there.

The amount of cobalt and other rare earth minerals aren't available.

It's a pipe dream.
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It's about controlling you if you can ride or not with social credit system. Electric vehicles can be remotely disabled.
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That CEO didn't just decide one day "electric = good" All CEOs get gaslighted by Government to do what they want them to do and they comply, then they get tax breaks etc...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79420395


This! Although I think they get even more than that..
basically those organizations are almost 100% guaranteed to survive and stay afloat no matter what, and of course the CEO, CFO get RICHLY rewarded but it isn't on the books so to speak.
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Harley Davidsomn did a stupid thing back in 2009 when they closed down Buell production and cubed all the completed bikes, it was a slap in the face of the workers there, the Europeans would have happily bought those thumpers.
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Not suicide I’f tptb like br and va have a gun to your head
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Just buy an old bike and restore it...
 Quoting: BRIEF


This is exactly why HD have made this decision.

Just how many people in future is going to buy one, starting at $15,000 up to $45,000, when second hand examples, with low mileage in perfect condition can be bought for a third of the price of a new one.

Bikes and bikers are a dying breed, a thing of the past, a shrinking market awash with products.

This is sad, but true, and I'm a life-long biker.
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I can’t think of a worse example of a corporate CEO misreading his customer base than this via the Robb Report...
 Quoting: StellaBlue

There are literally millions of HD motorcycles out there, anyone who wants a thumping, dirty great out-of-date motorcycle has got one or can easily buy one from a Boomer who are now too old to handle such heavy machines.

The days of huge, far too heavy motorcycles are over. Younger people do not want such stupidly heavy bikes that are so expensive to repair and so easily damaged.

I am speaking as a 63 year old who has ridden motorcycles the whole of my life. I still own a Yamaha FJR 1300.

Our generation went on buying ever more bigger, powerful, faster, heavier, more expensive, motorcycles with shiny easily damaged trim that is expensive to replace. The motorcycles often requiring two people to move them backwards when off flat smooth surfaces.

Big expensive touring bikes days are numbered, and HD full well understand this.

Big heavy motorcycles became madness - I admit this to myself... Anyone want to swap a nice Yamaha FJR 1300 for something smaller. Reason for selling - I got old and am no longer able to manage it. Condition: immaculate, only ridden during summer months, reluctant sale!
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You have nice tarmacked roads, we still have a lot of dirt and gravel roads here in the USA.
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And I thought Hardlys couldn't get any worse?

I mean how can you ruin a turd?

Well, guess they found a way bike
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hesright

stir How Harley Davidsons are made.

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85141473


Only a man that knows motors can ride one without breaking down… all the wannabes break down cause they don’t truly know a motor… I grew up on two my dad had 57 pan head and 67. Beautiful bikes. All black and chrome always with leather side satchels… as a Navy man sometimes he didn’t have a vehicle only his bikes. He never broke down on the side of the highway, never once did we have engine problems. It’s a great engine but it needs a great mechanic to keep her happy as well… sadly like all the great men that used to ride them, they too will slowly die off, one by one will meet their fate… the new ones are crap anyways…
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billy badass only likes his bike because it shacks his balls. They're going to need to put some type of vibrator if they go all electric.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85100651


Lucky for billy badass the likes of you are around to fill the void.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77582571


Billy that you? Don't get mad go out and vibrate on your harley until the angers goes away.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85100651

Nah, it ain't me.

With that being said, I've seen this shit coming for years. I'll be OK with watching HD go out with a whimper trying to sell the electric bikes. All the old guys who rode them as a way of life are almost gone.

HD showed their hand years ago when they came out with the V-Rods(water cooled).

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Can't wait to see the Hells Angels response to this ..
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Kiss the Japan market buh bye



I pity the soy boy who never held the handle bars of a rat bike wide open.

that said, sold mine years ago because posers and cell phome moms ruined HD for good.


At best it was like being a big kid on your first mini bike. You remember your fisrt time ride same as your first piece of tail.
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Their group is dead.
The posers that replaced the real outlaws are a bunch ofFAGSthat cant fight..


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Tell you what though: electric dirt bikes are fucking RAD.





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Yeah, if you like a top speed of 20mph, and a 26 minute runtime before you recharge the battery for 12 hours.

lol
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Do they catch on fire all by themselves and burn up the way that the electric cars do?
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Playing 3d chess everyone will be buying bikes befire there all rjectric in 2050
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$30k bikes, $150k work trucks, no wonder laborers want a $250 daily wage.





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