04-16-2015, 01:50 AM
We're not hip.
Like the H-D Cruiser market, the market for UJMs - especially the CB750 types...is that of us old guys who remember the 1970s. Harley has found a way to be relevant by creating nostalgia and image around their wildly-obsolete crusier. Honda, a worldwide motor manufacturers with many markets and other fish to fry, has just put this out...no real sales or promotion or image cultivation.
It has to/had to stand and sell on its own merit, without any image-cultivation.
The kids, most of whom - even the ones who ride - don't KNOW the revolution the Honda Four was...couldn't care less. They either want potato-potato-potato or they want to do three-mile wheelies and be able to outrun cops.
We are dinosaurs. Harleys' market spawned a trike industry; I don't know if UBMs will be made into trikes...or if we'll all just get maxi-scooters. But it is what it is...like layered haircuts, like mod Sin-Bin vans...these bikes will disappear with us.
Life goes on.
Like the H-D Cruiser market, the market for UJMs - especially the CB750 types...is that of us old guys who remember the 1970s. Harley has found a way to be relevant by creating nostalgia and image around their wildly-obsolete crusier. Honda, a worldwide motor manufacturers with many markets and other fish to fry, has just put this out...no real sales or promotion or image cultivation.
It has to/had to stand and sell on its own merit, without any image-cultivation.
The kids, most of whom - even the ones who ride - don't KNOW the revolution the Honda Four was...couldn't care less. They either want potato-potato-potato or they want to do three-mile wheelies and be able to outrun cops.
We are dinosaurs. Harleys' market spawned a trike industry; I don't know if UBMs will be made into trikes...or if we'll all just get maxi-scooters. But it is what it is...like layered haircuts, like mod Sin-Bin vans...these bikes will disappear with us.
Life goes on.