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Hey Guys...
Question for everyone since H-Ds stock was downgraded a couple days ago and their stock has been taking a dump this year and is down quite a bit this year as a whole.
How many people here are in their 20s or 30s and know a significant number of riders who have gotten into the H-D craze as young riders?
I am interested in hearing about someone who is like 25 or so and decides to learn to ride and ends up on a H-D. It doesn't seem like there are too many people like this. (H-D says average buyer age is like 44 or 45)
A lot of the poor outlook for the company is based on this, that they are selling nostalgia and people don't think us younger riders are going to buy H-Ds in anywhere near the numbers that the baby boomers are. The baby boomers have an awful lot of cruisers right now and aren't getting any younger.
I know I haven't really been interested in H-Ds or cruisers at all and I don't see how I would end up on one as I get older. I seem myself far more likely to end up riding an FJR, Gold Wing, big BMW, big Triumph, etc.. when I am 50 years old if I'm still riding. Harley could totally change in the next 20 years and then I'd maybe end up on one, but not living through the 60s I have no nostalgia for the whole easy rider thing. Because I've been happy with foreign/modern bikes as a younger rider I don't see myself wanting to get into cruisers as I get older.
I know we have RevHappy getting a chopper, but that is not a H-D, Cam switched over to a warrior, etc.. My neighbor is in his early 30s and is on his second H-D in the last year, but I don't think he has ever ridden anything except a H-D, he definitely doesn't know what he's missing. I've gotta think he's a fairly rare example.