Can you say something original? Being a parrot is no way to get through life.

Harley Davidson is forever. Get used to it or stay on the porch, haters gonna hate. Ha ha ha

 

Well I own 2 Bikes, A 16 cvo street glide and a 20 FLHTK. I ride both, no hater here, they're nice scooters, just speaking the truth. They may be around for quite some time, but shops aren't closing because business is good, just saying. Everyone has an opinion.

 

Heck of a lot easier to find a gas station than a Harley shop when you're riding those thousands of miles. Come back and let us know how it goes when you're off somewhere and that thing breaks. And...it will. Closing the dealers has absolutely nothing to do with, as you say.....reliability. There is nothing positive about it for the consumer. Whatsoever.

 

The only time I needed a dealership was in southeast Ohio (coal country,) about to get on W VA 250 to cross the mountains home to NC. The bike started missing, and I found Niedengards HD about 20 miles from where I was, outside of Wintersville, OH. I limped in to them and they put the bike on the old style Scanylizer (sp?) and determined that I could make it home with a bad throttle position sensor, (which they didn't have.)
So I changed plans and took Interstate 77 South (less throttle positioning,) and got it home OK. (400 miles.) Their diagnosis was a life saver because without it, no way would I have tried the run home on my own,
Sure glad I found them way out in the sticks as I was.

Niedengard's HD is closed now going on 2 years ago.

 

Who gives a ratzz azz?

 

You're here, so you muzzt.

 

HD is buying back the franchises of some dealers, like the one that I mentioned earlier in this thread.

 

It’s not the sole reason for closing them on every corner, it’s business smart. The bikes are reliable. Not the 80’s and before era. Name any business that hasn’t minimized their brick and mortar as it’s called footprint?

 

You don’t ride thousands of miles, gas stations are not as easy to find either. But hey, your **** breaks, sucks to be you. Maybe leave it the F alone instead of blaming HD for your inability to maintain a simple reliable machine. Or maybe you’re a tough guy biker that still rides a relic? Nothing wrong with that, but the only thing associated with Harley Davidson of today with anything from the last century is name and history.

There isn’t an automobile manufacturer doing anything different. Why people can’t let go and speculate the same parroted nonsense is beyond me. Despite your misplaced parroted fake hate, Harley is fine. Go riding.

 

I wonder if HD is eliminating the smaller dealers in order to prop up the "Taj Mahal" dealerships. If one of those "destination" dealerships closed, it would be noticed by a lot of people who drive by and would probably be mentioned in the local media.