[BikerJC]

Well, we aren't greasy psychopaths smoking weed and beating each other with chains and tyre irons anymore, so I guess that attracts more moderate people.



First post?

 

[33129]

Who ever considered motorcycles gas hogs?! This writer has to have brown eyes.

 

[48659]

Those darn "moderates", they're just messing everything up!

 

[48659]

If I could just hit that big Power Ball jackpot, I'd single handed help to boost these sales numbers!



I'd have one of everything from Aprillia to Ural.

I would mostly like to get my hands on a GP6 powered Duc!!!



Then I'd build my own track!



I need to wake up now, don't I?

 

[longride]

What no Zundapp???

 

[bod]

Does this mean we will get real motorcycle shops like we see in europe. I doubt it

 

[bikervince]

Yeah, especially the part where he refers to American Iron Horse choppers as "high-performance" motorcycles. Oh well, at least he is maybe the only journalist to realize that we are a very diverse group of people.



Bikervince

 

[56599]

You guys were ahead of your time

 

[bod]

Yes we are, didnt you see the post about the hells angels. I think its americas infatuation with want to be like everybody else because i keep picking up good hardly used 3-5 year old bikes with under 10k Amazing

 

[48659]

Thank you!! Ural was as far as my feeble mind could make it in the MC ABC's... Heck I even forgot Yamaha.



Boy, get'n old really affects a fellow?



(Insert little blue pill joke and drum roll here)

 

[35244]

Just in from a blazing run on the DKW Hobby -even faster than the Runpet!, but not as retro as the Heinkel Tourist - to see this.



I suppose the article was pretty ok. Didn't get too much too wrong which itself is a small miracle. But I was under the impression that there was no mystery whatsoever what happened to sales in the mid-late 80's. Us Boomers were buying houses, clawing our way up the corporate ladder, starting businesses & families, etc. Soon as we got the "bidness" under control we came back with a vengeance. Thus the rise in sales + we have - er - introduced the kids, nephews, etc., to our errant ways.

 

[stoney8888]

lets give a tire iron to Yeo and a Chain to bigdx and see how far we have gotten. I think thows phychopaths skipped the smoking weed part. lol

 

[LiionsRest]

"Easy Rider"... bleah. I ride in spite of that movie. Yeah, a movie about going less than 40 mph on highways on the most uncomfortable looking bikes ever, while being harassed, attacked, and finally killed supposedly created a 'binge of motorcycle buying'? Allrightythen.

 

[35244]

Wifie and I tried to watch "Easy Rider" the other night - in a fit of nostalgia.



It was as out of style as spats & prince-nez glasses.

 

[49223]

Can you explain why European motorcycle shops are better than those in the USA? I have not had the opportunity to visit the region.