What motorcycles do young people want?

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My girlfriend’s 42-year old daughter is the general manager of two established and well-known multi-line motorcycle dealerships in San Diego. She doesn’t ride and has no desire to do so. She claims her biggest demographic is the young enlisted men (Navy and Marines) who home-port in San Diego and want something inexpensive to ride while they’re not on deployment. She sells a lot of Hyosung’s and Kymco’s. At her other dealership, which mostly sells Yamaha and Polaris / Indian, young folks are more interested in dirt bikes than street bikes.

That's certainly the case at my house. We have one street bike, my CB1100, and three dirt bikes. Coronavirus shut down most of our summer vacation travel, so we put a lot of hours on the dirt bikes this year. All the motorcycle dealerships within about an hour radius have been consistently sold out of dirt bikes since April. Everybody wants one.