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Old Today | 06:42 PM
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Default Barber Motorsports Motorcycle Festival, H-D missing in action!

Barber put on the 19th annual motorcycle festival near Birmingham AL last weekend. What an amazing event, first time for me. Great weather, bike show, road racing, huge swap meet, motocross, and stunning museum. Wall of death and globe of death. All of the worlds motorcycle manufactures were there big time, Triumph, Honda, Suzuki, Indian, BMW, Suzuki Yamaha, also Royal Enfield and even some China clones. Most all have demo rides to show off their new rides. But guess who was missing? Yup, Harley Davidson, not even a little tent or banner sponsoring something on the grounds. BMW literarily had half a city block of stuff. The Indian semi was there with big demo choices and even had a very large hospitality area set up with tables, chairs and umbrellas for all Indian owners.

Was really sad to find Harley was not there, something is wrong at the top management level. Your thoughts on this, did you go to the event?.
 
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Well that sucks. What could HD's excuse possibly be to miss such a premier event?
I mistakenly thought they were in business to sell motorcycles.
Sneakerboy needs to go.
 
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If you pick up a share or two of stock you get voting rights. If everyone that's unhappy dropped ~$35 per share for a few we could all vote for change we believe in.

 
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I have owned many shares of HD for more years than I want to admit. Made some good money on it in the past. We are just a grain of sand on the beach, the really big stock holders have the say. I think H-D just may have got the word after the latest fiasco concerning DEI crap. The CEO John Zeitz may be not sleeping very good these days.
 
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Maybe John should go back to selling sneakers.
 
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I read that HD wasn't welcomed very warmly at Sturgis and went home early. Maybe they didn't want to be embarrassed again at Barber.
Go woke, go broke.
 
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Puma boy took his ball and went home?
 
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