I was in the bike business for 17 years. I found that many older riders had promised their parents, former wife or girl friend that they wouldn't ride. When things changed for due to death, divorce, break ups etc., they would buy a bike when the chains were finally broken. I was also in the Navy at the time and I would often pick up used almost new bikes from people that were getting out, and their parents wouldn't let them bring it home, or they just got married and the new young wife said "No bike." Most of it revolved around safety concerns for the rider, not out of meanness, or anything ,but genuine concern.
I had to be firm with loved ones as well. Perhaps in my 20’s I would have bent a knee, in my 40’s I bought a life insurance policy and a motorcycle and daddy is a happier camper for it.
So she fell in love with a person but not who they really were but who she saw them to be through her eyes…you’ll never live up to that persons expectations…keep the bike!!!
I bought my first Harley when I turned 50, I’m now 81, have owned eight different Harleys, ridden approximately 500,000 miles (mostly solo) and loved every mile! I don’t live to ride….i ride to live!
Insightful! I'm on the verge of saying, "later" to my beloved 48, and hello to a 50th Anniversary Z 650. Smaller, LIGHTER and plenty fast enough. I started on Kawasaki and now the circle is coming back to a close!
A good deal of this math has to do with Harleys pricing. Ive been riding motorcycles since I was a teen, I couldn't afford to buy a new Harley until now, I just turned 45.
When it comes to pricing, you have to be referring to the new garbage, the only connection it has to REAL Harley Davidsons is the name. The flat black computercycle that name is on really has nothing to do with what Harley Davidsons are all about. Real carbureted Harley Davidsons are still plentiful, and the prices are reasonable. I own two. A 1989 FXRS Low Rider, and a 2002 Sportster 1200C. I've had the FXRS since 2003, and I got a great deal on it. It's previous owner rarely ever rode it.
@@geraldscott4302 kinda. That’s my 96 heritage special in the beginning of the video and skattered here and there throughout it was $5500 plus the $3k to fix it up to road readiness, for a working man that’s allot. Would I have done that to a Honda, no. I had the money at the time pulled the trigger now I enjoy it. Until it breaks, then I fix it. Enjoy it again.
I bought my first HD last year at 58yo, it’s been serviced by 4 different dealerships around Australia ( because of distance.) just Finished 6000 kilometre ( 3728 miles), going again in a few weeks time but inland this time.
I'm 61, now almost 62, I have four Harleys 1978 flh, 1982 flt, 1991 fxsts, and a 1992 electraglide ultra classic. All of these bikes are relatively easy to work on (analog), no computers or fuel injection, and that means you don't have to have a bunch of expensive tools and equipment to work on them. Anyone with a little bit of mechanical ability and a good manual can do most of the work to keep them on the road. (Excluding any machining that might need to be done) The only downside is that Harley-Davidson shops are refusing to work on older bikes. If they can't plug it into a computer, they don't know what to do. (Parts changers) The small shops are disappearing, and the young generation is too impatient to learn from the old timers with the knowledge needed to keep the rolling pieces of history alive and well.
As an owner of two EVO’s and a newer rider I can say that without the help of a local shop I’d be dependent on a dealer. Which means my EVO’s would sit until I figured out the problem for myself. In my area there are several small shops that handle shovels and EVO’s and a good scene of riders who choose to buy old bikes but I realize this is a unique situation. As long as there are enough old bikes to service shops will be there. My mechanic is in his 30’s he learned from old timers how to work on EVO’s and shovels and can reach out to folks who know more if needed. The circle is getting smaller but the advance of how we communicate and take in information is getting easier and that will help the old bike community survive a little bit longer.
I bought my dyna at 19 and my road king at 25 (still 25 🤙). I bought the dyna because it was the closest I could come to a stock 70s muscle car sound and power wise while making minimum wage and I bought the road king because I fell in love with the twin cam platform and got a better paying job. The amount of customization also helps too, neither one look factory 😂. I've also got a sport bike, had to indulge my inner delinquent with a cbr lol
I was in my real early twenties when first I had a Honda Shadow, but in less than a year's time quickly ended up with a 79 sportster on a rigid frame that was kick only. It was a real P.O.S. and had to work on it all the time if I wanted to ride it. But I didn't care; it was a Harley Davidson and it was the correct thing to do. Haven't looked to another since.
I had British bikes from 65 to 92, it was the same way with them, same types of problems. Then I went on BMWs until 3 years ago, and now I'm on a Sportster.
I am 56, started riding in ‘89, HD and Indian are the last brands I would ever consider buying, too much about ego and image and conformity to the image of rebellion, the irony in that
@ I attend HD events, as well as BMW, Moto Guzzi and some that are a mix of all brands. My experience has been largely the HD crowd owns HD more because of ego, image and needing a sense of being part of a group. I bought my motorcycles to ride, not flex. I have never seen a group so fascinated by smoke and noise. While I have never been run off, it is clear I am tolerated as a fellow rider, but not really welcome. HD motorcycles, I just don’t get it. My neighbors and coworkers with HD sure look the part, always decked out in HD clothing, make sure everyone knows they own a HD but they almost never ride and the reliability seems to be pretty marginal, needing more repairs at lower miles than many other bikes. Sure the BMW and Moto Guzzi crowd also wears branded clothing, but they don’t build their whole image around it. A vast majority of them ride, some over 50k miles a year. Other than the occasional good natured jab, I have never seen the other groups treat another brand rider any different than they treat the brand riders at events. Some of the BMW group don’t even own BMW. But there is no accounting for taste right?
I bought my first Harley recently at age 55. Just a few years prior I ridiculed the engineering of and riders who rode Harleys. I'm lucky enough to still have a couple of Japanese rocket-ship style motorcycles, but they now seem like uncomfortable over powered mini-bikes by comparison.
I was 71 when I bought my first Harley 3 years ago, but I had a long string of bikes going back into the late 60s. I was retiring and I had had 5 BMWs in a row, the Harley Davidson Sportster was more economical to own than a BMW. Plenty of parts, service, You Tube do it yourself videos, etc.. I'm happy and I'm still on 2 wheels. 🙂
19 when I bought a new 883 hugger in 1988 but the tank range didn't work out. If I needed to qualify in pole position I'd get something else. 3rd Harley now, a 1999 FXDL,I'll keep it as long as possible. Life got in the way or I'd still have the 1995 evo FXDL that I kept for 8 years. I would like a Vincent black shadow but I'm ok with the compromise. People get pulled into focusing in on what isn't right, funnily enough I have an s type jaguar 4.0 v8 that apparently has the wrong shaped key.
@KennyQuestShow In the UK there aren't many. I'm lucky not being very tall for the buckhorns with forward controls. Heard the scare stories about early tc88 but the tensioner shoes had no notable wear at 24k miles. 26k on it now. If I can't look after it I shouldn't have it.
Started out on a CB 750SS and KZ900’s then Suzuki 1000 and 1150. Yamaha FJ and a couple Honda Hurricane 1000’s. Bought my first Harley in 96’ and Never looked back. Retired in April of 24’ and put 6K on the Ol Glider this past summer. Going to put more than that on this year good Lord willing.
I used to ride sports bikes. Two main reasons for me. I always liked naked bikes and Bonnevilles. My knees are shot and I didn't want to go 160 anymore. I saw a Harley I liked and went with it. Lol. Wasn't the scrambler or Bonneville. I got a fat bob. Just seemed mean and leaned more to a scrambler/naked type thing.
I've had all kinds of bikes. I even got an old nightster. Idk what it is about harleys but there is just something there that makes them a lot of fun. They have soul. @@KennyQuestShow
I'm 29, and I bought a Fat Boy when I was 27. I just love my bike, soo much character. I had many other bikes and I skew towards older bikes because of their character. I have a yamaha crotch rocket. But I skew towards the harley every time.
@KennyQuestShow 1998, i wanted the Terminator Spec, didn't realize it also has one of the best Harley Engines made, the Evolution. The way i describe riding it, it feels like you have 2 sledgehammer slamming against 50 cal bullets between your legs.
Long-standing legacy, the mcahine itself, and the brand with the most haters, all mean its the best brand. 50 years old, have 2, 05 and 12, never bought a brand new one. Use your brain and quit bitching about how expensive a brand new ones are.
The board and ceo is about DEI and share holder profits. Like all publicly traded companies. I feel the engineers, designers and factory workers are about bringing to market a good product.
I’ve had a dozen Harleys. I just turned 43. I can tell you my 24 road glide is light years ahead of any Harley I’ve owned in every measurable way. It’s an amazing motorcycle
Bought my first and only Harley when 17. At 19 changed to other brands. Now 79 and still riding. Son has a Harley. Trying to get rid of it after a few weeks. Not yet found someone more stupid than him.
According to reports Age is skewing younger in 2024 than 2018 and total unit sales in 2023 were equal to 25 years ago just before the boom. Profits are up though!
@@SB-mw1bg maybe. Maybe your Indian bobber purchase replaced a consumers night hawk purchase back in the day and you’re actually taking away from Honda’s numbers. In my area I don’t see Indian over taking, but I do see less metric cruisers and more Indians.
HD should listen to their research and quit trying to appeal to the young riders. Keep making heritage-style bikes and not this TECH on wheels crap.I am 52 and will not buy a new HD. 2018 is the last new HD I bought and will continue to only buy pre-2020 bikes and which is pushing it
Every young guy I meet on my bike talks about how they want a Harley. They can’t afford new ones yet. But nobody wants an old outdated bike except old outdated riders. I want rider modes. I want abs and traction control. I want a digital display with built in gps and Bluetooth connection to my phone. And I want that on a softail. Just like Indian has on the chief. Most people want that. Most Harley riders want that. Your kind is out of touch.
@nrgrlsd9931 so explain to me why harley sales have tanked every year they come out with new technology since 2016?so I would think most dont want that except the new look at me generation
@@nrgrlsd9931 I don’t know if there is a kind. But just as I enjoy a Sport Chief’s gauge or Aprilia’s sweet dash, you can have more than one bike. Especially older Harley’s, at $5k a pop an old dyna beats a Royal Enfield any day, day tripper google navigation or not. So context is everything.
@ So tell me why HD has dropped in sales year after year since 2014 ever since they started the new tech? Really, people don't want that crap except the look-at-me group. Most riders want to get away from the stress of the tech and just put miles on their bikes.
That is totally optional, but I did make a video that pokes fun at HD’s 1980’s yeah bruttherrr clothing if you’d like a laugh 1980’s Harley Davidson Fashions 😎 th-cam.com/users/shortsrXl7HiDGrOc?feature=share
Built like a gun. R.E.’s North American executive team is comprised of former HD executives from the previous regime. They are building a brand using a borrowed playbook and it’s working. Like em or hate em HD built a brand that is internationally recognized and means more than one thing to many millions of people.
When you finance they have your age info and the report uses data from the HDFS annual report which disclosed the info. If you pay cash or credit card you’re not a statistic in that report.
Why, because Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki, & Suzuki quit making the Big Cruisers. Moto Guzzi had a fine bike but quit & NO network to back their product in the U.S. BMW Cruiser-(NO)! Can't count the Honda Aspencade. That's a car on 2 wheels. Indians are too damn ugly. But the new Harleys are catching up in that department.
I am 65, so I am obviously now past middle age. When it comes to Harley Davidson, you have to draw a very wide line between the bikes they used to make back in the 1990s and before, and the GARBAGE they make now. The trash they make now have very little to do with motorcycles. It has more computer parts than motorcycle parts. And most of the motorcycle parts that are still left are flat black, instead of the bright shiny paint, aluminum, and chrome that Harley Davidsons have always been known for. They are downright HIDEOUS. They also lack the sound and feel that used to define Harley Davidson. So having a late model POS that just happens to say Harley Davidson on it is not even close to being the same as having a REAL Harley Davidson.
As an owner of EVO big and small twins and a reviewer who has ridden every HD model released in the last two selling seasons I can say with certainty that your brush stroke is a little wide and premature. They make chrome bikes at the factory and the dealers sell them and I’ve ridden them and posted videos of those reviews. You can flash an ECU and your not beholden to the factory program on it, those with road king specials and softails do it all the time. The factory has always made a fence around its product to protect dealers and history has shown its customers will figure a work around.
@ I also own an '03 Honda Shadow 1100 Spirit (carbureted) and I would much rather ride that than an M8. It has a better sound and feel, is more reliable, is not flat black, and has no electronics. I might consider a carbureted Twin Cam, as long as it was bright and shiny, not flat black. I have owned over 40 bikes, and every single one of them has been carbureted.
I am 62 been riding Harley for over 30 years. More than 20 of them. Switched to a Honda fury. The most important, that disgusts me is the type of Harley riders nowadays. Posers tattooed all over, without a clue. Just to Show off. All the Harley crap, they wear. Absolutely ridiculous 😂
I was in the bike business for 17 years. I found that many older riders had promised their parents, former wife or girl friend that they wouldn't ride. When things changed for due to death, divorce, break ups etc., they would buy a bike when the chains were finally broken. I was also in the Navy at the time and I would often pick up used almost new bikes from people that were getting out, and their parents wouldn't let them bring it home, or they just got married and the new young wife said "No bike." Most of it revolved around safety concerns for the rider, not out of meanness, or anything ,but genuine concern.
I had to be firm with loved ones as well. Perhaps in my 20’s I would have bent a knee, in my 40’s I bought a life insurance policy and a motorcycle and daddy is a happier camper for it.
So she fell in love with a person but not who they really were but who she saw them to be through her eyes…you’ll never live up to that persons expectations…keep the bike!!!
@@rogerbuesing9374 Mine tried to break of it, but nothing worked. "I refuse to be assimilated." 🙂
@@rogerbuesing9374 sounds ominously familiar
My heart wanted a Harley when i was 8 years old but my bank account only agreed in my late 30´s.
Yaaa! That’s true for most of us.
You're lucky, I've been wanting an Harley since I was 4 years old, but my bank account only agreed to a Kawasaki vn800 at 36 😂😂😂😂
@@mitsubishi1978 ^ that's the winner right there!
@@mitsubishi1978 Truth.
Comfort Comfort Comfort. Harley-Davidson are an extremely comfortable motorcycle to ride. Which, for us of the average age is very important!!
As plush as you can get!
I bought my first Harley when I turned 50, I’m now 81, have owned eight different Harleys, ridden approximately 500,000 miles (mostly solo) and loved every mile! I don’t live to ride….i ride to live!
You are my life goal! I hope I can follow in your skid marks sir!
I recently chose a triumph t120. No regrets.
Great bike. Good feel, good power.
Man I feel like I’m old now I bought mine at 25 because I love the style got myself a 2010 heritage Softail twin cam 96
Awesome bike! Don’t let the report fool you, there are hundreds of thousands of HD owners under 40 riding today,
Started riding in '83. Still going. Currently Kawasaki. About another 20 or so years I might slow down enough for a HD. I'm not boring enough yet.
I dunno. Took my sportster around Jennings Moto GP track recently and it was exhilarating.
I'm 63 and ride Victory, love em
Awesome!
Wow… first time I don’t give af about being part of a statistic. I will say how scary accurate this video was. 😂
🤣 thank you!
Really enjoyed this video! 🎉
Thank you Sir!
HD is the only bike with a soul.
Agreed!
Insightful! I'm on the verge of saying, "later" to my beloved 48, and hello to a 50th Anniversary Z 650. Smaller, LIGHTER and plenty fast enough. I started on Kawasaki and now the circle is coming back to a close!
Great bike! I’d love an RS900
@@KennyQuestShow I agree! The retros are works of art!
A good deal of this math has to do with Harleys pricing. Ive been riding motorcycles since I was a teen, I couldn't afford to buy a new Harley until now, I just turned 45.
Same. I couldn’t afford it until I was in my 40’s. Life is expensive.
When it comes to pricing, you have to be referring to the new garbage, the only connection it has to REAL Harley Davidsons is the name. The flat black computercycle that name is on really has nothing to do with what Harley Davidsons are all about. Real carbureted Harley Davidsons are still plentiful, and the prices are reasonable. I own two. A 1989 FXRS Low Rider, and a 2002 Sportster 1200C. I've had the FXRS since 2003, and I got a great deal on it. It's previous owner rarely ever rode it.
@@geraldscott4302 kinda. That’s my 96 heritage special in the beginning of the video and skattered here and there throughout it was $5500 plus the $3k to fix it up to road readiness, for a working man that’s allot. Would I have done that to a Honda, no. I had the money at the time pulled the trigger now I enjoy it. Until it breaks, then I fix it. Enjoy it again.
I bought my first HD last year at 58yo, it’s been serviced by 4 different dealerships around Australia ( because of distance.) just Finished 6000 kilometre ( 3728 miles), going again in a few weeks time but inland this time.
Ride it! Explore! Enjoy the experience!
It needs service 4 times in 1 year?
@ service intervals for a new bike are 500, 1000, 2000 then 5000. If he did 3728 within a year and getting ready for another trip the math works.
I'm 61, now almost 62, I have four Harleys 1978 flh, 1982 flt, 1991 fxsts, and a 1992 electraglide ultra classic.
All of these bikes are relatively easy to work on (analog), no computers or fuel injection, and that means you don't have to have a bunch of expensive tools and equipment to work on them.
Anyone with a little bit of mechanical ability and a good manual can do most of the work to keep them on the road.
(Excluding any machining that might need to be done)
The only downside is that Harley-Davidson shops are refusing to work on older bikes.
If they can't plug it into a computer, they don't know what to do.
(Parts changers)
The small shops are disappearing, and the young generation is too impatient to learn from the old timers with the knowledge needed to keep the rolling pieces of history alive and well.
As an owner of two EVO’s and a newer rider I can say that without the help of a local shop I’d be dependent on a dealer. Which means my EVO’s would sit until I figured out the problem for myself. In my area there are several small shops that handle shovels and EVO’s and a good scene of riders who choose to buy old bikes but I realize this is a unique situation. As long as there are enough old bikes to service shops will be there. My mechanic is in his 30’s he learned from old timers how to work on EVO’s and shovels and can reach out to folks who know more if needed. The circle is getting smaller but the advance of how we communicate and take in information is getting easier and that will help the old bike community survive a little bit longer.
The prices delay the purchase. It’s not as if we discovered Harley’s in mid life.
True fact!
I bought my dyna at 19 and my road king at 25 (still 25 🤙). I bought the dyna because it was the closest I could come to a stock 70s muscle car sound and power wise while making minimum wage and I bought the road king because I fell in love with the twin cam platform and got a better paying job. The amount of customization also helps too, neither one look factory 😂. I've also got a sport bike, had to indulge my inner delinquent with a cbr lol
Dude the tri-fecta, respect 👊🏼
I was in my real early twenties when first I had a Honda Shadow, but in less than a year's time quickly ended up with a 79 sportster on a rigid frame that was kick only. It was a real P.O.S. and had to work on it all the time if I wanted to ride it. But I didn't care; it was a Harley Davidson and it was the correct thing to do. Haven't looked to another since.
That’s awesome! It really feels like we are merely custodians for the next generation.
I had British bikes from 65 to 92, it was the same way with them, same types of problems. Then I went on BMWs until 3 years ago, and now I'm on a Sportster.
@@redr1150r love my sportster!
I am 56, started riding in ‘89, HD and Indian are the last brands I would ever consider buying, too much about ego and image and conformity to the image of rebellion, the irony in that
Funny how social interactions can impact an individual’s decision to purchase a thing.
@ I attend HD events, as well as BMW, Moto Guzzi and some that are a mix of all brands. My experience has been largely the HD crowd owns HD more because of ego, image and needing a sense of being part of a group. I bought my motorcycles to ride, not flex. I have never seen a group so fascinated by smoke and noise. While I have never been run off, it is clear I am tolerated as a fellow rider, but not really welcome. HD motorcycles, I just don’t get it. My neighbors and coworkers with HD sure look the part, always decked out in HD clothing, make sure everyone knows they own a HD but they almost never ride and the reliability seems to be pretty marginal, needing more repairs at lower miles than many other bikes. Sure the BMW and Moto Guzzi crowd also wears branded clothing, but they don’t build their whole image around it. A vast majority of them ride, some over 50k miles a year. Other than the occasional good natured jab, I have never seen the other groups treat another brand rider any different than they treat the brand riders at events. Some of the BMW group don’t even own BMW. But there is no accounting for taste right?
I bought my first Harley recently at age 55. Just a few years prior I ridiculed the engineering of and riders who rode Harleys. I'm lucky enough to still have a couple of Japanese rocket-ship style motorcycles, but they now seem like uncomfortable over powered mini-bikes by comparison.
Welcome! Enjoy the breeze at your knees, it’s all good.
Weird that I was 46 when i bought my 1st Harley. Count me into that catagory.
I was 71 when I bought my first Harley 3 years ago, but I had a long string of bikes going back into the late 60s. I was retiring and I had had 5 BMWs in a row, the Harley Davidson Sportster was more economical to own than a BMW. Plenty of parts, service, You Tube do it yourself videos, etc.. I'm happy and I'm still on 2 wheels. 🙂
Right, same here!
@@journeyofjerry820 I was 53 and my then wife was totally against it- now have 107.000 miles on my heritage 😎
I'm not even old and I want something like a Harley.
You don’t have to be old, new HD’s are pricey, but plenty of good preowned sportsters and dynas and baggers out there.
@KennyQuestShow Oh totally, used ones are MAD cheap
19 when I bought a new 883 hugger in 1988 but the tank range didn't work out.
If I needed to qualify in pole position I'd get something else.
3rd Harley now, a 1999 FXDL,I'll keep it as long as possible.
Life got in the way or I'd still have the 1995 evo FXDL that I kept for 8 years.
I would like a Vincent black shadow but I'm ok with the compromise.
People get pulled into focusing in on what isn't right, funnily enough I have an s type jaguar 4.0 v8 that apparently has the wrong shaped key.
Love it! You know you have one of the most coveted Dyna models.
@KennyQuestShow In the UK there aren't many.
I'm lucky not being very tall for the buckhorns with forward controls.
Heard the scare stories about early tc88 but the tensioner shoes had no notable wear at 24k miles.
26k on it now.
If I can't look after it I shouldn't have it.
Omfg! The comments from old dudes! I'm 62 and now I know why I get the side eye all the time!😅😂
Comments section is always entertaining when it comes to HD.
Started out on a CB 750SS and KZ900’s then Suzuki 1000 and 1150. Yamaha FJ and a couple Honda Hurricane 1000’s. Bought my first Harley in 96’ and Never looked back. Retired in April of 24’ and put 6K on the Ol Glider this past summer. Going to put more than that on this year good Lord willing.
That’s awesome!
I used to ride sports bikes. Two main reasons for me. I always liked naked bikes and Bonnevilles. My knees are shot and I didn't want to go 160 anymore. I saw a Harley I liked and went with it. Lol. Wasn't the scrambler or Bonneville. I got a fat bob. Just seemed mean and leaned more to a scrambler/naked type thing.
Fatbob’s are cool, great handling bikes. Super Moto type cruiser combo!
I've had all kinds of bikes. I even got an old nightster. Idk what it is about harleys but there is just something there that makes them a lot of fun. They have soul. @@KennyQuestShow
@@Chrisrt5712 agreed. Hard to explain, firing order of the pistons, vibrations, exhaust sound, sound clutch makes putting her into gear…list goes on.
Hopefully I will get to have my 2nd Harley at the age of 55
Pan AM!
I bought a cruiser (not a Harley) when I was 48. At 64 I'm aging out of that segment... to an ADV bike, and not a PanAmerica.
ADV is a growing segment, Swiss Army knife type bikes.
Im 30. bought my first harley at 26. ive owned 3 in total
Awesome! If you financed any of them through HDFS / Eaglemark bank between 2021-23 then your age data went toward this report.
I'm 29, and I bought a Fat Boy when I was 27. I just love my bike, soo much character. I had many other bikes and I skew towards older bikes because of their character. I have a yamaha crotch rocket. But I skew towards the harley every time.
A Fat Boy is a classic! What year?
@KennyQuestShow 1998, i wanted the Terminator Spec, didn't realize it also has one of the best Harley Engines made, the Evolution. The way i describe riding it, it feels like you have 2 sledgehammer slamming against 50 cal bullets between your legs.
@KennyQuestShow thanks, it's a 1998, Evo Engine.
@ hell yeah!
Long-standing legacy, the mcahine itself, and the brand with the most haters, all mean its the best brand.
50 years old, have 2, 05 and 12, never bought a brand new one. Use your brain and quit bitching about how expensive a brand new ones are.
If you use a inflation calculator the prices are cheaper than they were 20 and 30 years ago.
It's a golden age for used Harley prices, I couldn't afford one Harley in the late nineties, now I have four.
@ it is a good time to buy preowned!
Harley is all about corporate greed now
The board and ceo is about DEI and share holder profits. Like all publicly traded companies. I feel the engineers, designers and factory workers are about bringing to market a good product.
I’ve had a dozen Harleys. I just turned 43. I can tell you my 24 road glide is light years ahead of any Harley I’ve owned in every measurable way. It’s an amazing motorcycle
@ the new designs are fantastic
Bought my first and only Harley when 17. At 19 changed to other brands. Now 79 and still riding.
Son has a Harley. Trying to get rid of it after a few weeks. Not yet found someone more stupid than him.
What is it about Harley that doesn’t agree with you?
#8 Customize. Hold up! The only reason we have to do that is because the factory 💩 sucks.
They make alot of money off the aftermarket. “Upgrades”
Everyone knows a harley is the cover charge for mid life crisis 😅
Ouch! But what does that make your ninja 🤣
@ my ninja? First prize winning entry in the lil bitchmobile contest 🥴🤣 it’s what I get for riding a 250 🤣🤣
Those numbers are quickly dwindling.
According to reports Age is skewing younger in 2024 than 2018 and total unit sales in 2023 were equal to 25 years ago just before the boom. Profits are up though!
@@KennyQuestShow HD is losing market share to Indian. I'm one of those with my Scout Bobber.
@@SB-mw1bg maybe. Maybe your Indian bobber purchase replaced a consumers night hawk purchase back in the day and you’re actually taking away from Honda’s numbers. In my area I don’t see Indian over taking, but I do see less metric cruisers and more Indians.
@@KennyQuestShow
What else is there 😮😮😮
Nothing that makes me smile!
One word...Comradery.
Brotherhood!
HD should listen to their research and quit trying to appeal to the young riders. Keep making heritage-style bikes and not this TECH on wheels crap.I am 52 and will not buy a new HD. 2018 is the last new HD I bought and will continue to only buy pre-2020 bikes and which is pushing it
Or peace officer bikes, no tech on those models!
Every young guy I meet on my bike talks about how they want a Harley. They can’t afford new ones yet. But nobody wants an old outdated bike except old outdated riders. I want rider modes. I want abs and traction control. I want a digital display with built in gps and Bluetooth connection to my phone. And I want that on a softail. Just like Indian has on the chief. Most people want that. Most Harley riders want that. Your kind is out of touch.
@nrgrlsd9931 so explain to me why harley sales have tanked every year they come out with new technology since 2016?so I would think most dont want that except the new look at me generation
@@nrgrlsd9931 I don’t know if there is a kind. But just as I enjoy a Sport Chief’s gauge or Aprilia’s sweet dash, you can have more than one bike. Especially older Harley’s, at $5k a pop an old dyna beats a Royal Enfield any day, day tripper google navigation or not. So context is everything.
@ So tell me why HD has dropped in sales year after year since 2014 ever since they started the new tech? Really, people don't want that crap except the look-at-me group. Most riders want to get away from the stress of the tech and just put miles on their bikes.
HD makes fantastic masculine cruiser bikes. They should stick to what they do best and stop trying to make bikes that the kids want.
That’s basically my point with this video, riders age into Harley, leaving the street bikes for cruisers that can crunch miles.
like sheeple follow the crowd . Drink the kool-aid and ride cookies 😂
The dark side has cookies?
You forgot to mention dressing up in black leather and trying to look like the guy from the Village People.🌈
That is totally optional, but I did make a video that pokes fun at HD’s 1980’s yeah bruttherrr clothing if you’d like a laugh
1980’s Harley Davidson Fashions 😎
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Buying an HD is buying in to an image. It’s an outdated image.
Built like a gun. R.E.’s North American executive team is comprised of former HD executives from the previous regime. They are building a brand using a borrowed playbook and it’s working. Like em or hate em HD built a brand that is internationally recognized and means more than one thing to many millions of people.
Is this your real voice narrating this video?
It is, no A.I. bots on my channel. I’m also the guy in the opening of the video
That’s Kenny’s voice, he’s the real deal.
You've definitely got a voice...I mean a "face" for radio! Lol!
@ ha, ha thank you Sir!
@ thanks man!
This may be true, but I've been riding Harleys my whole life and never have been asked my age by anyone at Harley Davidson. Have you?
When you finance they have your age info and the report uses data from the HDFS annual report which disclosed the info. If you pay cash or credit card you’re not a statistic in that report.
@@KennyQuestShow I see. I've never had to finance. Cash paying customer.
@ best way to go!
They yearn for the hog crank 0:52
Don’t we all 😛
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Why, because Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki, & Suzuki quit making the Big Cruisers. Moto Guzzi had a fine bike but quit & NO network to back their product in the U.S. BMW Cruiser-(NO)! Can't count the Honda Aspencade. That's a car on 2 wheels. Indians are too damn ugly. But the new Harleys are catching up in that department.
Aspencade! There’s a throwback! GL1200☺️
I am 65, so I am obviously now past middle age. When it comes to Harley Davidson, you have to draw a very wide line between the bikes they used to make back in the 1990s and before, and the GARBAGE they make now. The trash they make now have very little to do with motorcycles. It has more computer parts than motorcycle parts. And most of the motorcycle parts that are still left are flat black, instead of the bright shiny paint, aluminum, and chrome that Harley Davidsons have always been known for. They are downright HIDEOUS. They also lack the sound and feel that used to define Harley Davidson. So having a late model POS that just happens to say Harley Davidson on it is not even close to being the same as having a REAL Harley Davidson.
As an owner of EVO big and small twins and a reviewer who has ridden every HD model released in the last two selling seasons I can say with certainty that your brush stroke is a little wide and premature. They make chrome bikes at the factory and the dealers sell them and I’ve ridden them and posted videos of those reviews. You can flash an ECU and your not beholden to the factory program on it, those with road king specials and softails do it all the time. The factory has always made a fence around its product to protect dealers and history has shown its customers will figure a work around.
I’m 65 also. Keep your Evo’s fellas.
I have a 97 Evo, 09 twin cam and a 23 M8 and I can say you're dead wrong
@ I also own an '03 Honda Shadow 1100 Spirit (carbureted) and I would much rather ride that than an M8. It has a better sound and feel, is more reliable, is not flat black, and has no electronics. I might consider a carbureted Twin Cam, as long as it was bright and shiny, not flat black. I have owned over 40 bikes, and every single one of them has been carbureted.
I am 62 been riding Harley for over 30 years. More than 20 of them. Switched to a Honda fury. The most important, that disgusts me is the type of Harley riders nowadays. Posers tattooed all over, without a clue. Just to Show off. All the Harley crap, they wear. Absolutely ridiculous 😂
This video is a joke.
How so?