What motorcycles do young people want?

[GoldOxide_imp]

Shifting gears by DCT is not everything, as most of you may think....how it engages from N into the 1st and when initially acc, always bothers me also, when cold and warm....

Have no idea what you are saying PB.

[bioman_imp]

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Sorry I can't figure out how to get this pic on here but I believe this version, while not ideal, has a better "tush" than the 401.

As far as young folks and bikes, I just don't see it. I employ about thirty young folks. Mostly in the 20-25 year old range. No talk of bikes unless they are trying to have a conversation with me about them. And I can tell you they know nothing about bikes. In fact one called my CBR300R a "hog". They just have no interest in anything that is not dealing with their phones and instafacetweetchat. It's sad really.

That is also my experience. It seems that slowly but surely motorcycles are becoming something from the past, like those early bicycles with a HUGE front wheel and tiny rear wheel, or like sidecars, or like steam engines.

Young people are certainly interested in electric bicycles and scooters. Convenient, pleasant, silent transport vehicles that are relatively light-weight, easy to ride, clean, affordable and will need very little maintenance. Motorcycles do not fall in this category. Young people consider them too unpredictable, too old-fashioned, too noisy, smelly, and too difficult to ride ("Gears?? What are those?").

Mind you, this is only the case in North America and (in a lesser degree) Europe. In Asia, motorcycles are very much alive and kicking.

[GoldOxide_imp]

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701

Sorry I can't figure out how to get this pic on here but I believe this version, while not ideal, has a better "tush" than the 401.

As far as young folks and bikes, I just don't see it. I employ about thirty young folks. Mostly in the 20-25 year old range. No talk of bikes unless they are trying to have a conversation with me about them. And I can tell you they know nothing about bikes. In fact one called my CBR300R a "hog". They just have no interest in anything that is not dealing with their phones and instafacetweetchat. It's sad really.

That is also my experience. It seems that slowly but surely motorcycles are becoming something from the past, like those early bicycles with a HUGE front wheel and tiny rear wheel, or like sidecars, or like steam engines.

Young people are certainly interested in electric bicycles and scooters. Convenient, pleasant, silent transport vehicles that are relatively light-weight, easy to ride, clean, affordable and will need very little maintenance. Motorcycles do not fall in this category. Young people consider them too unpredictable, too old-fashioned, too noisy, smelly, and too difficult to ride ("Gears?? What are those?").

Mind you, this is only the case in North America and (in a lesser degree) Europe. In Asia, motorcycles are very much alive and kicking.

That is also my experience. It seems that slowly but surely motorcycles are becoming something from the past, like those early bicycles with a HUGE front wheel and tiny rear wheel, or like sidecars, or like steam engines.

Young people are certainly interested in electric bicycles and scooters. Convenient, pleasant, silent transport vehicles that are relatively light-weight, easy to ride, clean, affordable and will need very little maintenance. Motorcycles do not fall in this category. Young people consider them too unpredictable, too old-fashioned, too noisy, smelly, and too difficult to ride ("Gears?? What are those?").

Mind you, this is only the case in North America and (in a lesser degree) Europe. In Asia, motorcycles are very much alive and kicking.
Yeah, and classic motorcycles (vehicles in general) suck money and time in regards to maintenance. The new generation, and even many seniors today won't tolerate that. Sure, it is almost 2021. Really not unreasonable. I mean, there are better ways to spend time then doing maintenance. I think Elon Musk wishes to spend the last of his time dying on Mars.

[michael1954]

When I was trying to buy the 2017 CB1100EX last year from a young man in Ohio, about 28, he did not like the EX, but was selling his dad's bike. He rode a Ducati 800 I think. He did like it when I told him I had a Kawasaki Z900RS. He felt his generation was into naked, fast and to me transformer like bikes. He really did not want a Sport Bike or Crotch Rocket. He said they were too fast and uncomfortable.
I guess this is why the sad demise of the CB1100 has come about in this country.