Harley is now OFFICIALLY gay.

[Ramblin Man]

I was in Target the other day taking my daughter shopping for some clothes. Completely gay right? Well I leave her in the clothes section and wander over to the token guy section of the store and what do I see? A Harley Davidson accesories display with coffee mugs and clocks and all of those other thwell and completely harmless nick nacks with their name all over them.

I remember thinking that the Harley Cafe Racer was the coolest bike on the planet when I was a kid and only the hardest of the hard core rode a Harley and Japanese cruisers were posers and why would you ride a poser?

Now you can get soft and fuzzy Harley nick nacks right next to the bathroom accessories and that's just gay.

If they wanted to update their image they sure did it.

 

[Toecutter]

There's a similar display ay Wal Mart. How gay is that?

 

[Warchild]

There's a similar display ay Wal Mart. How gay is that?

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

lol...some emoticons sum it up pretty darn well

 

[FJRottie]

Anything to make a buck.

 

[odot]

William has to pay his son's college tuition, too. Too bad.....the laugh is on us. I'm snickering myself. Wish I could dip into that honey pot.

 

[Ari Rankum]

Feh. Say what you will, but those HD toilet seats are among the most pleasurable things I've ever sat on.

(Evtug bire gur pragre bs gur cyngr ng bar zvyr cre ubhe.)

 

[Groo]

Dang, my Monkey is even embarrassed by that... When Captain America gets out of his Superfriends meeting... there'll be hell to pay!

 

[GunMD]

Where do you think Spider gets all of his cool clothing and accessories?

 

[odot]

....probably, somewhere's in kalifornia?

 

[exskibum]

So this is what they meant by "exploring other markets". I stand corrected, the HD phenomenon is about performance motorcycles and not marketing.

 

[gasman]

I knew they were all gay after the 100th anniversary party featured none other then the epitome of Hardly Ableson-Sir Elton John!

"A deafening hush came over the enormous crowd as it realized the big secret was John, hardly a rocking choice for a group that came to party. With the Harley folks clad in black, it looked more like a funeral as the stunned crowd stood motionless as John launched into his set of new, soft rock tunes and old favorites. Then, people started to leave. In droves.

Elton John. Elton John? He's not American, certainly not very manly, and far from hard rock. The last rocking song from John came at a time when H-D was still owned by AMF.

After a few new songs, John played his classics, like "Daniel," "Rocket Man,""The ***** Is Back" and "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues." But the damage was already done. The once jam-packed crowd began to thin out. Perhaps, though this is just a guess, as many as 30 percent of the audience just went home. John didn't help his cause by announcing to the crowd, "I'd play you a song about motorcycles, but I don't have any."

 

[rontoride]

correct spelling is GAYE. It fits the profile

 

[nusman68]

But remember, they could stop selling bikes tomorrow and still be highly successful with all that 'licensed crap'...

-a friend of mine dropped off his V-rod for service yesterday at a dealer here; I gave him a ride back to his house...it's a 2003, has 2200 miles on it, and the engine has a dead miss..but that's another story.

Talk about a flashy service dept...I noticed they had numerous bikes already lined up to be worked on.

The service board reflected that many of them were there for oil changes..

Oil changes? Don't these people change their own oil?

Nevermind.

 

[twowheelnut]

....probably, somewhere's in kalifornia?

Dot, don't you know that the *** Pirate Rainbow Brigade is moving in hoards to Houston, Dallas and San Antonio? You guys offerin' tax breaks or have y'all simply run outta farm animals? :grin:

 

[painman]

It's a known fact for many years HD has made way more money on their clothing and accessories line than bike sales all due to the daughter of the family. Sounds pretty smart to me. None of the other mfg's. could do that though they would like to. PM. <><

 

[odot]

I imagine there is a percentage of them coming to realization that being taxed to death and paying a million dollars for a one bedroom house is kinda over the top. Thanks for bringing that up, twn. Preciate it.

 

[PapaUtah]

About 15% of Harley-Davidson's™ operating profit comes from MotorClothes and Licensed Goods. P&A about 20%. HDFS about 10%. The margins they make on the bikes provide the vast majority of their profits(Harley-Davidson™ makes about 40% on each bike they sell to the dealer and motorbikes account for about 78% of Harley-Davidson's™ total revenue.)

As for the other manufacturers, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Polaris all make the majority of their profits from goods and services other than motorcycles. I would like to see Harley-Davidson™ do that.

 

[HaulinAshe]

My next door neighbor's wife works at the local HD dealership. She is a sweet woman and runs their clothing and accessories section. It's astounding at how many manly Marines, here at the largest Marine base in the world, pile into buy HD paraphenalia.

Personally, I have nothing against leather gear with HD insignias. As long as the brick house blonde babe let's me rip it off!!!



I had a severe vibration on my 05 FJR when I first bought it. Turned out to be HD valve stem caps. They shot well from my cannon.

And for my final HD bash... It's a well documented fact that 97% of all HD motorcycles ever sold are still on the road, the other 3% actually made it home.