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Harley-Davidson Shuts Down Buell, Plans To Sell MV Agusta

twowheels;54309 said:
Not sure what they do in Centereach NY, but here in Detroit we move the world. That's right - and we do it better than the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese. Don't forget to do up your chinstrap next time out :lol:
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Typical Detroit mentality - They finally get a product right (Buell) and scuttle it. As far as MV that deal never made sense to me. Harley is probably paying some Accenture MBA's to come up with "best practices, synergies, alignment, vertical blah blah, and getting hosed out of money and real forward thinking while the executives enhance their change of control packages and the product line just survives on past greatness. Hyosung will be buying them from Obama soon.
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Isn't Harley based in Milwaukee?
 
Motosportz;55514 said:
Geeez is the bottom dropping out of the market or what!!! We will all be on Korean bikes soon.
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That's when I quit riding. I watched the same thing happen to guitars over the past 10 years. I refuse to buy a Korean, Mexican, Chinese, Taiwanese, or any other "an" or "ese" produced guitar. I'd rather chop my fingers off than play a guitar produced by a bunch of 10 year old sweat shop workers. Same will be true for bikes.
 
krieg;55544 said:
That's when I quit riding. I watched the same thing happen to guitars over the past 10 years. I refuse to buy a Korean, Mexican, Chinese, Taiwanese, or any other "an" or "ese" produced guitar. I'd rather chop my fingers off than play a guitar produced by a bunch of 10 year old sweat shop workers. Same will be true for bikes.
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I 2nd that. Personally I won't buy that junk either. You get what you pay for. The mentality of always buying the cheapest item available is one of the reasons that so many products are built with "sweat shop" labor.
 
This all sounds completely retarded to me. Buell is paying now for Harleys retarded decision to buy MV Agusta. They go and spend a ton of money for another motorcycle company and then go OH CRAP! we can't afford this. Buyers remorse in the worst way. They screwed the pooch, and Buell, on this one. Good job Harley Davidson, you retards. :censored:
 
I would love to see a real US superbike come out of this. Buell was an interesting concept and I though outshone harley in many ways RIP Buell.
 
And...

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/22november09_erikbuell.htm

And what if Victory made sport bikes?

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For some reason I have more confidence in victory breaking the mold
and building something other then a custom or a cruiser or whatever you call a Harley type bike :excuseme:
Beside their “Harley’s” are way nicer :D

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Ducati is making life difficult for other small sport bike brands. If you are to believe their figures they are having very good years in a bad economy. They sure do have some impressive bikes with very good financing and they gave dropped prices to a level that is drawing new customers. With their pedigree in sport bikes thats a hard combination to compete with.
 
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