If It Ain't A Harley...

[badsanta]

Let's face it...the yanks are great at some things but the motor/bike industry is not one of them.

They make to their own internal market only as it's big enough and don't care about the rest of the world.

I like America and made some good mates over there when I was working in New York but some aspects of their society are just backwards and some are more advanced than ours.

The US bike industry will wake up one day a try to get a slice of BMW have got. It will be very interesting to see what they come up with. Well, they have just come with the latest thing,another aircooled v-twin called, I believe, Indian. But there is also Brammo, Zero, electric bikes which will probably be the future. Who needs foreign bikes anymore when the best bikes in the world are currently made here in Europe.

Mike

[Tourider]

"The US bike industry will wake up one day a try to get a slice of BMW have got. It will be very interesting to see what they come up with."

Harley-Davidson make three times as many bikes as BMW each year.

[Dazzer]

quote sprintster... "So only about 30 years behind the Japs with water cooling,then! :laugh: :laugh:

Have you not heard of Scott ?

[badsanta]

"The US bike industry will wake up one day a try to get a slice of BMW have got. It will be very interesting to see what they come up with."

Harley-Davidson make three times as many bikes as BMW each year.

Ktm are the biggest european maker, still all three are only in the thousands, Honda make eleven million, Zongshen, now the world's largest, make fifteen million annually. But when the made in India Harleys come on stream that will help to increase the sales.

[bull]

i like to see some of these bike companies making some of old school bikes again, thats what I would like to see,

[utaka]

quote sprintster... "So only about 30 years behind the Japs with water cooling,then! :laugh: :laugh:

Have you not heard of Scott ?

Or the LE velocette.....and NO its not a French motorcycle either!

[moto al]

The only time iv ever road a Milwaukee monster,fim,rallye 1992

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Up yer kilt.

[Mike101]

The only time iv ever road a Milwaukee monster,fim,rallye 1992

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Up yer kilt.

Mmmmmm a kilt with white socks and white trainers...nice..Mel Gibson eat ye heart out.

Mike

[sprintster]

quote sprintster... "So only about 30 years behind the Japs with water cooling,then! :laugh: :laugh:

Have you not heard of Scott ?

Or the LE velocette.....and NO its not a French motorcycle either!

I didn't say the Japanese invented water cooling,but they were mass producing motorbikes with it 30 years before Harley Davidson did!

[badsanta]

i like to see some of these bike companies making some of old school bikes again, thats what I would like to see,

I started out on so called ol'skool bikes in the 60's and what rubbish they were compared to todays machines. How old skool do you mean? Acetylene lights maybe, or no gears or brakes, 7bhp from a 1 litre engine. Did any biker in 1930 want an old skool bike from 1901,or earlier, no they wanted the latest thing.