Your “brand image” doesn’t mean shit when your business fails. Selling a new product for a premium when the market is flooded with lightly used, more affordable examples of your products is tough.

Here’s the deal.

I thought about making an actual reply but many have already tried to make valid points and you won’t listen. So screw being nice. You’re an obtuse moron and people like you are one of the biggest problems with our society. Fuck the fuck off and let people live(or die) how they choose.

Intentionally being obtuse is not a good look. They do take precautions, but races on public roads are inherently dangerous. There is no practical way to mitigate that danger to the a degree that would satisfy your unstated, nebulous and very personal safety criteria.

I agree. Nobody should have free will! NOBODY!

Let’s stop adults from making choices you don’t like, while they’re doing things you can’t.

Go back to space camp. It’s a good place to pretend to do dangerous things without any risk.

Nope.

Where I’m from, we call this “gunmetal”. There are varying shades of gunmetal, but it’s basically a darkish metallic grey. Nice color to be sure, but nothing worth writing home about.

Wow, it almost blends into the asphalt! If they were looking to make a stealthy color they hit it out of the park. As far as good looking colors however; my vomit from a night of hot wings and plastic bottle bourbon looks more interesting. “Oh my gawd, it’s looks like I didn’t even chew that one!”

Silver is a universally appreciated car color.

So, you drove a McLaren the same week as you drove the Mazda 6?
That “C” rating is starting to make more sense..... would it be a stretch to say that it’s not so much that the Mazda didn’t live up to your expectations or the hype, but more so that your frame of reference was slightly skewed?

Yeah, but the absurd part is that the market is currently exploding with “vintage” everything, and yet H-D are staring quizzically into the void as their customers die off. Just look: BMW Rnine T (and variants), Triumph Bonneville/Thruxton (and friends), Ducati Scrambler, Yamaha XSR900, Kawasaki Z900RS, and I’m sure…

If only Harley had a sub-brand that would be interesting to the youths...Maybe one that sells sport bikes, and stuff that isn’t just wannabe choppers for the middle manager who needs something loud enough to make him feel better about his ED, but whose wife won’t let him spend enough money to buy a Vette, or build a…

I’ve been at both ends of the emotional spectrum on this, both as the result of Ford vehicles. On the one hand, I drive a Galaxie that has been in my life literally for as long as I can remember. The car is older than me, and if I have my way I’ll die before it does.

I’ve noticed one thing about these lifted trucks. The people that complain about them all seem to have an unhealthy obsession with penis size.

Financing. Everyone can get it.

its closer to 15 for a normal bike. you arent paying 40 unless youre getting a screaming eagle ultra classic. or a loaded trike. and truly 15-20 isnt a high price to pay for your daily. its just that most people cant stomach having to ride every day. they wanna be coddled in massaging seats and stuff their faces and…

No, they know what a loan is. They don’t know how to go for a good one.

Just like you know the concept of driving as a teenager but you don’t know how to actually drive.

Yeah no they don’t. Half of my friends don’t understand interest rates and percentages on loan or lease paperwork. This generation didn’t grow up being taught how to financially take care of their needs and problems. We never had economics in school. We had to learn all of this on our own.