Originally Posted by mskirwin

IMO with the M8 and dealers not willing to make a deal will see more closing. I was talking to my salesman at Barb's and he tried to talk me into a '17. I asked what he was taking off msrp he told me nothing off. See Ya!

I was there on a Friday afternoon and the place was dead. 20-25 employees and three people there for service, including me. Bad tire replaced under warranty. No profit.

Salesman told me it's been slow only sold 1 bike in October.

Originally Posted by SilverStreetGlide

You certainly have to wonder about the true "economy" at this time. Supposedly it's in pretty damn good shape and no worries. Yet just this past week Ford is idling its truck plants and some car plants. But no-worries cause the LIBERAL owned news will just tell you it's all great, that is until a non-LIBERAL is running the country. I'd have to say the GOP nominee will end up killing the economy if elected cause the Liberal agenda will scare the **** out of everyone of the actual "true economy" should their agenda puppet not be elected. Oh now it's getting POLITICAL on the open forum sorry. Like my dad always said don't talk politics, religion or sex if you want to be liked LOL.

Originally Posted by 0maha

At least around here, motorcycle dealers were always something of a low-rent operation. They'd come and go over the years, but were generally located in fairly modest parts of town, in fairly modest buildings. 1500 sq ft of showroom was a lot.

​​​​​ Then the boom years happened and the MoCo was able to demand that their dealers build these cathedrals to consumerism. 40 years ago, motorcycle stores were just motorcycle stores. Small. Functional. Utilitarian.

Anyway, the MoCo has built a ton of overhead into their distribution channel. All those dealers who built those cathedrals need to sell a ton of bikes to make their nut. When sales drop hard like they have in the last couple of years, those guys get pinched hard.

40 years ago, Omaha had one HD dealer in a crappy building in a crappy part of town. Today we have three, two of which are the latest generation cathedrals, and one of which is the previous generation cathedral. I wouldn't be surprised if five years from now we are back down to one. In a crappy building in a crappy part of town.

Originally Posted by jeffro09

Looks like Windy City Harley-Davidson bought another dealership, talk about having a monopoly in the Chicago land / Milwaukee area.....this is like store 7 or 8. Can't be good for buyers.