03-29-2016, 06:42 AM
(03-28-2016, 12:52 PM)Rboe_imp Wrote: Looks like Harley's exceptional run is over; while some will buy for the image, they will have to back things up with a performing product now (in many respects they have improved their product, just need some more improvements).
It was fun while it lasted.
While normally I wouldn't know anything about how well Harley is doing, I just read in April's Cycle World editor's letter that Harley sold 170,688 new bikes in the US in 2015. With that, they had a 50% market share for bikes over 600cc. That's not bikes on the road, but only new bikes sold last year. That is absolutely astonishing, I think. For context, BMW had a record year and they sold 16,330 bikes total in the US.