Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[16HD117]

Not a Harley to be found!

https://autos.yahoo.com/photos/10-best-new-motorcycles-of-2014-1407194419-slideshow/

[Fired00d]

Why am I not surprised.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[DICKW]

Why am I not surprised.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

I'm hoping no one is.

[Slick1]

Pretty sad couldn't even make it in the top ten. 

[ultrarider123]

Three BMW models, three KTM models with one Indian, one Kawi, one Yamaha and one Duc.  Interesting choices but not surprised HD isn't anywhere to be found.  Also no-shows on the list:  Honda, Suzuki, Triumph, Can-Am, Victory (unless you count the Indian).  Can't argue with any of the choices Cycle World made, however.  Just quite a few very good to great bikes not on the listing.  Guess that's why they have an active reader comment section online along with in print.

[gadgetz]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with their assessments, but then I usually do.




CW Hater Extraordinaire 

[D-N-D]

That BS Harley sells to many bikes not to have one in there.

[SDCVO]

ok but 1 stat that is not in that article is that HD sells 55% of every bike sold in the USA and every other manufacturer  with every bike (including those 10 bikes) they make share the other 45%. I don't mean to be Polly-Anna about the Motor Co but numbers are numbers and every one on this site knows we don't have the best running/performing/technically advanced/best braking/etc bike made out there but we have all spent a tremendous amount of money to own/maintain 1/2/3/?

[2smoke]

In my opinion Cycle World's top 10 was actually pretty good this year.  Anything KTM makes is always nothing short of awesome.  We could have predicted the Indian would be on there.  Indian presents 3 brand new bikes in one year, then introduces another brand new bike a little more than a year later with a totally different engine as well as another model variant. That is absolute market motivation.  Harley's Twin cam came out in 1999 ('98 ?)and there hasn't been nothing since.  They introduce the V-Rod in '02 and that is now left to die on the vine.  Oh I forgot... they came out with the new "Street"  made by a company in India.  No thanks. 2015 will be no different for H-D.  Paint and stickers year after year (and more Chinese components).  Harley killed the one company making new and exciting products: Buell. 

[grc]

ok but 1 stat that is not in that article is that HD sells 55% of every bike sold in the USA and every other manufacturer  with every bike (including those 10 bikes) they make share the other 45%. I don't mean to be Polly-Anna about the Motor Co but numbers are numbers and every one on this site knows we don't have the best running/performing/technically advanced/best braking/etc bike made out there but we have all spent a tremendous amount of money to own/maintain 1/2/3/?

I never equate market share with being the best.  For example, not long before they went bankrupt, GM was the world leader in sales and most of their vehicles were crap.  Comcast has the largest piece of the cable TV pie, and they suck to high heaven.  Need any more examples?

Harley, and many of the others that have enjoyed large market shares for years, have a tendency to be complacent and just sit back counting their money.  Smaller companies looking to move up are the ones that tend to innovate and push the envelope.

I suggest that anyone who really thinks Harley has anything as technically competent as the bikes on that list has just indulged in a bit too much Kool-Aid over the years to look at this objectively.

JMHO - Jerry

[cropsure]

As others have stated, I'm not a bit surprised that HD is absent from this list.  I for one have drank all of the coolaid I can stand.  My moneypit SEUC7 is about to be a distant memory.  Either going with a k1600GTL or a Goldwing depending on what the 2015 Wings look like.

[SBB]

going with a a Goldwing depending on what the 2015 Wings look like.

2000cc
6 speed

 

SBB

[16HD117]

2000cc
6 speed

 

SBB

Will they have it in BLUE?

[cropsure]

2000cc
6 speed

 

SBB

Have you read that somewhere SBB?  I've been trying to find some info on the 15's and can't find anything.

[SBB]

Have you read that somewhere SBB?  I've been trying to find some info on the 15's and can't find anything.

Nothing in writing.
A 14 year run on the 1800 is lending speculation that the 15 will be 2000cc.
Wing owners have been looking for a 6 speed for years.
Maybe it's just an optimistic expectation.
Who knows.

SBB