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Are Harley Davidsons becoming cliche? |
No reactive answers here, I'm serious: when growing up, I remember there was this tough, cool image to Harley bike riders. But this day and age, it seems like not only are there Harley Davidson stores everywhere, but Harley riders all over the place when you're on the road. I'm not knocking it: some of my good neighbors have been Harley enthusiasts. I'm just asking if the whole Harley Davidson phenomenom has become somewhat oversaturated and, I dunno, cliche, for lack of a better word. When I was growing up, the bikes and the riders were kindof rare, and there was a cool mystique to it all. And now? It's just an overly common sight. Thoughts? I'm not looking for angry replies here, just some thoughtful comments. I've been ridin' H-D longer than most of you have been breathin'. The sum total of my Harley gear(other than my bikes) is one 17yr old hat. Back in the day, we waved to other riders cause we were just about the only bikes on the road, except for some Brit. bikes. We knew every nut & bolt on our bikes, & most of us didn't know what a new bike was. The prices were within reach of us loyal riders & we stood behind HD without question . Most of us were crazy independents or patch holders of 1% clubs. We were a very small, close knit group that could tell by sound whose bike was comin'. You wouldn't dream of passin' by another rider down by the roadside or even cage drivers, for that matter. Around 1990, the Yuppies started to dig Harleys & the sh*t hit the fan. It was time to relive the childhood dreams of bein' Marlon Brando in "The Wild One". All these RUB's wanted H-D's & money talks. The "Motor Company" hiked production to meet the demand, shortages were born, prices skyrocketed & us original riders were pretty much ignored. Most of these overnight "Easyriders" don't know squat about their bikes except where the gas goes. They go freakin' nuts over anything with the H-D logo on it & usually end up wearin' it. There's millions of people ridin' bikes, but there's very few bikers left. I personally blame it all on Honda back in the '60's when they came out with the sales pitch:"You meet the nicest people on a honda". Before that, bikin' was almost like a cult. Now, any fool with a checkbook can be Peter Fonda for a day(weather permitting) Oh well, that's progress.(?) Too much money & not enough heart. Source(s): Grey beard biker. I'm NOT serious... To me they were a cool bike that tough criminals rode. Now they seem to be ridden by older men trying to re-capture there youth. Kind of like when you see the 60 yr old guy in a Corvette. In short I think they just have an old man image now. There are certainly plenty of Kooks out there who are just in it for show and because they think if they are decked out in the Harley gear from head to toe it will "make them" cool. I'm sure the true enthusiasts who live & breathe Harley think these guys are "tools" as well. Just a bunch of fat, bald idiots with pony tails and tatoos trying to look tough. If they tried to start a fight, you'd have to give them a five minute grace period just so they could get their fat a$$es of the bike. HEHEHE Not cliche' in the sense that SUVs are. Yes , the market seems to have been saturated. I think the export of many units to South America and the planned Lehman-Harley Trike may point that up. Some of these goobers ought to come down to where I live and see if HD is a "fat old man's bike", or if some of the fat old outlaws can't still hurt them, bad. |
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