Harley – big in Japan?

[Big Dave]

anything american is cool ...

Same to a lesser degree with brit bikes


Stephen

..........You've got me turning up and turning down
And turning in and turning 'round

I really think so.

[Swoop]

..........You've got me turning up and turning down
And turning in and turning 'round

I really think so.

You been sniffing vapours again?

[gijoe1313]

Ahh this thing with the two wheels is all a fad. The malarky will die down when it's all anti-gravitic drives and free floating magnetic forkless suspensions!

And tassles will be replaced by memonic metal which can shape and change colour according to the fad by the minute, nanotech micro-machines will alter the shape of your ride according to the jacked in plugware in your head and all you will need to do is to swill down synthetic food aminos so you can sweat it out through your skin to feed the nanotech as it builds your bike around you.

Rock on technanology and the fusion of man-machine in a utopic melding of visionary electric sheep dreams! Excelsior!

[kerfufflez]

Harley sales would also appear to be booming, with 14,000 new bikes registered last year – an increase of 48 percent over the year 2000. A factor in the jump is the scrapping of a rule that prevented two people from riding on one motorcycle on the highway.

I don't understand the last part of the quote. If they are now allowed two people on the one bike, wouldn't there be fewer bikes (half?), rather than more?

Or am I being dense?

[Brian d marge]

you couldnt take a pillion on the motorway ,,, thats been scrapped

Stephen

[xwhatsit]

I don't understand the last part of the quote. If they are now allowed two people on the one bike, wouldn't there be fewer bikes (half?), rather than more?

Or am I being dense?

Part of the appeal of a Harley, I suppose, is that you can stick your girl on the back and go cruising on the long broad motorways. There was a law against taking pillions on the motorways before -- meaning you'd have to stick to side-roads if you wanted to cruise around with your SO, which a Harley isn't really in its element in.

Now that you can take a pillion on the back on motorways, I would think it opens up a big part of the `Harley lifestyle' to Japanese riders. Sportsbikes don't really have the same pillion-cruising thing going on.

[kerfufflez]

Cheers for that. Now I understand; I was on a completely different wavelength.