How bad will the market for Harleys bottom out in 15 years when the boomers are all in their 80s?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hopefully non existent

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Give it to some younger family member
    >Young family member uses it or sells it at a "normal" price

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's probably worth nothing, just give it to me

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They all ride those enormous tricycle mobility scooters now because they're 70 something years old. Why would you even want to buy one of those?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they really do be riding these. I live next to one of the biggest retirement communities in the country, something like 75% of the population is over 65 and I see those trikes everywhere

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >they really do be

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Why would you even want to buy one of those?
        Because you want to ride, but you have health problems and your wife is fat.

        I mean I’ve had a 2013 soft tail since my late 20s. Harley has a good concept and I see plenty of 20, 30, 40 year old professionals buying them new and used.

        They would get my business new if they could make an on/off-road bike with a 110.

        >They would get my business new if they could make an on/off-road bike with a 110.
        You really need more than the pan America 1250cc motor to go off-road?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >You really need more than the pan America 1250cc motor to go off-road?
          Yes?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's a lot of weight. Have you ever ridden an r1250gs? That's pretty much the heaviest in class and you're looking for heavier.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That’s harleys problem to figure out not mine

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I mean I’ve had a 2013 soft tail since my late 20s. Harley has a good concept and I see plenty of 20, 30, 40 year old professionals buying them new and used.

    They would get my business new if they could make an on/off-road bike with a 110.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People mistake Harleys for boomer bikes while their bikes are really for morons of all ages.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Even so their market share has shrunk as boomers die off.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I never understood why anyone would buy a brand new bike for $20k+ when you can just buy a 20 year old bike that is brand new because it's been kept in the back of a garage all these years and can get that for $2k or less.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s hard to find a 20 year old bike that hasn’t been bubba’d to death

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        A motorcycle has like 10 parts max, how much could possibly be bubba'd

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          All 10 of those parts could be bubba'd

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >not having an old bike and a new 20k bike
      Y tho?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      New bikes are nice

      >not having an old bike and a new 20k bike
      Y tho?

      This

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I never understood why people go on the internet and say stupid shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They will want $500 less than the brand new price and then when they die and the wife will send it to the junk yard and the boomer junk yard owner won't let you buy it even if you offer $5000 and the junk yard brought it for $500 and then it will just be scrap metal.

      I heard from a harley dealer that the typical boomer just trades in their bike every 2 years to get a new one. They probably get $50k a year or something from investments anyway.

      From reseach on choosing a bike is that stuff like types and brakes cost a fair bit of the % of the cost of the bike compared to a car so maybe getting a new one is more cost effective if it needs a bunch of stuff.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There are enough millennials that want to be boomers for Harley to survive, it's more likely that subsequent generations will simply stop riding motorcycles altogether

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >it's more likely that subsequent generations will simply stop riding motorcycles altogether

      This, Harley isn’t in danger no more than any other motorcycle brand.

      You can’t autopilot a soft tail, drink your latte, and swipe through Instagram. That’s a problem.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >You can’t autopilot a soft tail, drink your latte, and swipe through Instagram
        The people who buy motorcycles generally don't overlap with the Starbucks on the go crowd anyways

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The biggest danger is alienating their customers with wokeshit and products no one asked for

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >People who pay out the ass for them die
    >prices settle to realistic levels
    >more accessible
    >subculture evolves
    >Bikes become desirab again

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Harley's are really unattractive to me because of the price and the performance.
    I like the new Buell super cruiser but it's very expensive

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I will buy them, well the air cooled ones.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Currently a harley mechanic apprentice. What am I in for?

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >implying hollyisraelite won't shit out some movie in 2025 glorifying motorcyclehomosexuals and pimping harleys back into the stratosphere

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >wanting a harley
    >ever
    >or any kind of bike like that
    they're only good for larping as a tough guy but everyone knows they're dentist bikes
    they're shit at everything a motorcycle is supposed to be good at
    PROVE ME WRONG

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Idk I enjoy cruising comfy and getting double the gas mileage of my car.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        two things a scooter could do better

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          At that point I’d prefer to just ride around on my lawnmower

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Scooters aren’t comfy. This isn’t Paris circa 1950. Scooters suck ass for literally anything now.

          the japs have been steadily buying up all the old Harleys for the last the last decade while you were cooming over imported jdm cars.

          Yeah I have been noticing this too. Wtf is wrong with us.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the japs have been steadily buying up all the old Harleys for the last the last decade while you were cooming over imported jdm cars.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't worry, the world will not run out of white collar lowtest larpers who hope to buy some testosterone (or at least pretend they did). Just don't be surprised when you see a launch of a DCT hurley in few years.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      by the time harley figures out the technology needed to make a DCT they'll be all electric anyway

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They don't need to figure out shit, if the money is right with the market launch they can just buy a working module from few players, only one to most likely deny them is Honda, but that is not a huge obstacle.

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