“While your uncle may think the deafeningly loud Harley exhaust is “cool, nifty, badass”, everyone else in the public sphere of existence can’t stand it. EVERY SINGLE TIME I sit outside for a dinner or beer, we have to put our conversation on hold for a minute until the middle-aged douches stop revving their…

An important distinction is that I said “the aesthetic is the same,” not that “it would look like every other Harley.”

I think it would be okay if Harley went bankrupt and disappeared. It wouldn’t be forever, some company would buy up the naming rights in a few years and then the brand would have a real chance at being something people wth money actually want. Right now Harley’s only appeal to people who can’t afford them.

The funny thing is most urban millennials sitting at that table could not tell a loud Harley from a loud Honda.

So it has a small fairing that resembles one on the Street lineup. That makes it look just like everything else? What about the perimeter frame? The steeply raked upside down forks with radial calipers? The stinkbug tail section? These things dont look anything like any other bike Harley currently makes. The closest…

Only thing I would correct is that it’s not just Millenials that think this way, I’m a Gen X’er (mid 40s) and have always felt the same way. So you basically have three generations of motorcycle buyers that they have turned off by basically being large and obnoxous for to long.

Yes. I couldn’t agree more, and I’m a 60 year-old guy. I saw Easy Rider in the theater. I watched Then Came Bronson on TV. And yet, 40+ years ago the story was not that much different. My friends and I aspired to Bonnevilles, CB750s, and R90s. Even back then, we considered H-Ds overweight, overlarge, and archaic. If…

Urban millennial here, who is actually interested in buying a premium motorcycle in the next few years: Harleys are tainted in our demographic.

Except the small 250cc-500cc bike, according to the press release, is for India and emerging markets. And it sounds like it’s going to be made by another company.

Except the small 250cc-500cc bike, according to the press release, is for India and emerging markets. And it sounds like it’s going to be made by another company.