Millennials...strange creatures.

 

Really ? I have about 30 mates in oz mostly all riding jap bikes sports / cruisers and 1/2 of their kids 25+ wouldn't look at a Harley and went the way of the supermotard.

Curious where ya got that tidbit of info from.

Wiz

 

https://motorbikewriter.com/aussie-m...uying-harleys/

 

Yeah must be the same people that said the M8 was the bestest engine ever.

Id take that story with a pinch of salt as the people I talk to on a weekly basis back home say otherwise and they bag me royalty about buying a Harley myself.
The best motorcycle mag in oz is AMCN, Now if they put that in print you can take that to the bank.

Wiz out

 

I'm out in Sturgis right now, and there are TONS of "millenials" out here riding Harleys. There is a guy and girl next to me at Turtle campground, both in their 20s, that rode their Sportsters from Michigan with their Dad.

Harley will be fine. The younger folks just don't hang out at the Legion Hall and VFW. 😂

 

I have a son that is a Millennial, a lot of relatives that are also Millennials, not to mention the field I am in for my job, I work with a lot of Millennials... I can say, not a one of them that I know has ever shown interest in riding. Not just HD's but not riding at all. Not that I haven't seen Millennials on bikes, because I do, but I know a lot of them and not 1 is interested in riding. Matter of fact, in my entire office area, 60+ people, there is only one other guy that rides. Same age about as me and he has a SG... Even so, my bike is the only one in the parking lot at work every day.

 

Im 42 have loathed over a Harley since I'm a young boy, and seeing Arnold rip that Fatboy in T2 just planted my love for HDs. My first Harley that I could afford was a 1990 1200 Sportster back in 2006, got married bought a house had kids you know the usual, that's why it took so long, but at 31 I got what I could afford, I wish it was the Fatboy which is what I wanted, but the Sporty did fine, in fact I still own that bike, after spending close to 10 grand I love it.

Last summer a women who's husband passed unexpectedly of an anurizum was selling a 2009 Softail Custom, she asked $7000 and I got the cash to buy it asap. My mind has changed a bit about the Fatboy I once loathed after, I still like them but love this Custom.

Anyway Dad remarried and I now have a brother who is 21, he has no interest what so ever to ride a bike, although he said he wants a bike, he wants like a KTM dual sport. Anyway he'd rather hang out with his phone or with his headphones on playing his computer games. He didn't get his license until he was 19 yo, and that was because pop pushed him to get it. Anyway yeah the 18-30 yo millennials are a different breed.

 

as said before, most of the younger generation, their phones are their recreation and pass time. is sad to see how they waste their life away looking at a 3X5 screen.

 

I work at a plant that has 700+ employees of all ages, and there's never more than four or five bikes in the parking lot. I know a LOT of people of all ages that aren't interested in riding.

 

Ya, you know... to each his own I suppose... I have a lot of family that just doesn't understand my love for riding, but that's cool... I don't understand the phone thing, the social media thing, the video game thing and I never will. I'd rather be outside, in the shop, on the bike, whatever... I guess if we were all the same and enjoyed the same things, this world would be a pretty boring place. Just my 2 cents...