View Full Version : I would like to see Elon buy Harley Davidson
Tikiman
03-25-2025, 3:25pm
I think the resulting beatdowns would make great video. :issues:
dvarapala
03-25-2025, 3:53pm
He would un-woke the **** outta that place. :D
Tikiman
03-25-2025, 3:55pm
The liberals could hang out outside biker bars and key the Harley’s. :lol:
MadInNc
03-25-2025, 4:00pm
It would be Epic. Get rid of that pufter French CEO and even get his Visa revoked. I’d pay money to watch it….
He should buy Starbucks :funnier:
Yep, Harley is in deep shit. I wanted to buy one last year but the prices were beyond ridiculous. I told a group of sales people they were going to see the company going bankrupt and they basically said they were “too big to fail”. We’ll see.
Burro (He/Haw)
03-25-2025, 5:31pm
Yep, Harley is in deep shit. I wanted to buy one last year but the prices were beyond ridiculous. I told a group of sales people they were going to see the company going bankrupt and they basically said they were “too big to fail”. We’ll see.
Sales are soft across the industry, not just H-D. Ask RedLS1GTO
They'll be fine.
If it wasn’t for import tariffs in 1983 HD would have died on the vine.
Frankie the Fink
03-25-2025, 7:21pm
He should buy the CF.
He should buy the CF Vette Barn.
Yes.
Y’all, need to have a conversation.:D
lrobe22
03-25-2025, 8:07pm
Harley is in big trouble. The tv show fad has run it’s course. Boomers were the biggest customer and they’re mostly out of the buyers market now. Gen X is more limited and millenials will never shop big motorcycles. The msrps are way too high like they’re still riding the discovery channel wave.
higgyburners
03-25-2025, 10:11pm
Harley is in big trouble. The tv show fad has run it’s course. Boomers were the biggest customer and they’re mostly out of the buyers market now. Gen X is more limited and millenials will never shop big motorcycles. The msrps are way too high like they’re still riding the discovery channel wave.
:Jeff '79: I agree .....I doubt most Gen Z kids will even be capable of jumping on a motorcycle and going out to enjoy fresh air and the countryside. All they want is to be is connected to the internet to do there tweets and twerks.:sadangel:
Sales are soft across the industry, not just H-D. Ask RedLS1GTO
They'll be fine.
It’s bigger than just a soft market for Harley. They became a finance company that builds overpriced motorcycles and T-shirts.
They’re in deep shit with their 84 month loans that they apparently gave “to anyone that could fog a mirror” to buy their bikes.
Burro (He/Haw)
03-26-2025, 8:07am
It’s bigger than just a soft market for Harley. They became a finance company that builds overpriced motorcycles and T-shirts.
They’re in deep shit with their 84 month loans that they apparently gave “to anyone that could fog a mirror” to buy their bikes.
As I said before, H-D will survive and I’m FAR from being a MoCo evangelist.
DJ_Critterus
03-26-2025, 8:23am
Yep, Harley is in deep shit. I wanted to buy one last year but the prices were beyond ridiculous. I told a group of sales people they were going to see the company going bankrupt and they basically said they were “too big to fail”. We’ll see.
Harley has gone bankrupt in the past. Nothing says it can't happen again especially when they alienate their target market with all the woke and gay bullshit.
Burro (He/Haw)
03-26-2025, 8:30am
What is it with H-D that generates SO much hate? You don’t see this with the Japanese or European brands.
If anyone should draw this kind of hate it’s MV Augusta. Talk about over-priced unreliable bikes.
They are a storied American brand and I'd like to see them succeed. I'd like to see GM and Ford succeed, and see Dodge get bought back by Americans again. I'd like to see A-B get sold by Inbev to Americans, and have that storied American brand brought back to glory agian, too. Having said that, at the time I had my motorcycle itch a couple of decades ago, Harleys were selling for MSRP++, and I wasn't willing to do that, so I bought a metric copycat instead. Nice bike, but I never pretended it was anything other than a reliable Japanese knock off. Fun to ride, and that's it.
RedLS1GTO
03-26-2025, 9:03am
Sales are soft across the industry, not just H-D. Ask RedLS1GTO
They'll be fine.
100% across the industry as a whole. It's going to be interesting to see what happens over the next 5-10 years. Motorcycles are definitely becoming more niche market. Think about the fact that people can't even drive a manual transmission car anymore and how that translates. Dealers are consolidating in a big way. The "private" cycle shops that were everywhere a few years ago are now all gone. 3-4 big holding companies came and bought them all (We sold out to Polaris). The remaining holdouts are suffering in a big way.
Side by sides were fire 3-4 years ago, now they're starting to tank in a big way as well. Of course the fact that they went from $7-$8k brand new to $30k-$40k may have something to do with that. :kick:
H-D specifically is in a weird spot. Older guys are buying less. They need to market to the younger crowd, but every time they try they piss off their base "That ain't a Harley". Young guys don't want them because they're old guy bikes. Old guys are pissed that they're trying to market to young guys...
I can't decide whether it'll recover and boom again or if it will die completely.
Last month I was offered an opportunity to manage and take 51% ownership stake in the Polaris franchise that actually bought us out. I'm considering it, but the market is absolutely terrifying right now. The fact that the current owners are offloading franchises says about all that needs to be said.
Tikiman
03-26-2025, 9:36am
Harley Davidson will always be around. It takes a lot of skill to produce a bike that burns that much gas and makes that much noise to put so little power to the ground. Besides, if they went under, what would the owners do with their Village People costumes?
Humanoid 3.0
03-26-2025, 12:41pm
What is it with H-D that generates SO much hate? You don’t see this with the Japanese or European brands.
If anyone should draw this kind of hate it’s MV Augusta. Talk about over-priced unreliable bikes.
It's not the bike, but the riders :yesnod:
https://youtu.be/ipDmsxQVxIM?si=xW-Ws04RbRR7eTXm
BRUIZER
03-26-2025, 12:54pm
I just wish the asshats would stay in the right lane, where they belong, so the rest of us wouldn't have to go around these self centered road tards.
What is it with H-D that generates SO much hate? You don’t see this with the Japanese or European brands.
If anyone should draw this kind of hate it’s MV Augusta. Talk about over-priced unreliable bikes.
They've got bailed on several occasions via tariffs and government loans. I like the bikes but I don't like that they got bailed on my dime for their shitty business practices. And based on my most recent visit to several dealers around my AO, they're still practicing piss poor business practices.
We'll see what happens but I'm fairly certain they're going to get another bailout or bankruptcy.
Asparagus
03-26-2025, 4:23pm
100% across the industry as a whole. It's going to be interesting to see what happens over the next 5-10 years. Motorcycles are definitely becoming more niche market. Think about the fact that people can't even drive a manual transmission car anymore and how that translates. Dealers are consolidating in a big way. The "private" cycle shops that were everywhere a few years ago are now all gone. 3-4 big holding companies came and bought them all (We sold out to Polaris). The remaining holdouts are suffering in a big way.
Side by sides were fire 3-4 years ago, now they're starting to tank in a big way as well. Of course the fact that they went from $7-$8k brand new to $30k-$40k may have something to do with that. :kick:
H-D specifically is in a weird spot. Older guys are buying less. They need to market to the younger crowd, but every time they try they piss off their base "That ain't a Harley". Young guys don't want them because they're old guy bikes. Old guys are pissed that they're trying to market to young guys...
I can't decide whether it'll recover and boom again or if it will die completely.
Last month I was offered an opportunity to manage and take 51% ownership stake in the Polaris franchise that actually bought us out. I'm considering it, but the market is absolutely terrifying right now. The fact that the current owners are offloading franchises says about all that needs to be said.
Well put reply. I live in your area and have witnessed several shops close or change hands, the one independant near me I wouldn't trust to change a tire, their techs were beyond terrible.
BTW, had 2 RedLS1GTO's, one Torrid Red the other Impulse Red. Torrid Red died an ugly death:
https://i.imgur.com/7tEFiHD.jpg
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