The new CEO has decided that they will introduce the '21s in Jan/Feb as opposed to Aug/Sep like they have in the past. He thinks that introducing them towards the beginning of the riding season will be better than rolling them out towards the end.
The things that make us laugh. Here's a story:
Long time ago and moderately far away. On a really well used and rarely cleaned 1987-? FXRT pulled in to a little greasy spoon in Holbrook, Nebraska. Coming in from west across the plains were clouds that spoke loudly saying "don't ride this way son." So I didn't. Greasy spoon was refuge.
I wasn't inside more than five minutes before the wind picked up and the thunder started shaking the place. Coming in from the west just ahead of the Travel Gods' Band in the Sky came some guy even dustier than me on an FL. He knew he wasn't going to outrun the storm so he was stopping too. Holbrook (at least then) had, maybe, 1500 people. If you wiped a bug out of your eye you missed it so we were both lucky to slide in to the place when we did.
Both sat down and, of course, started talking about motorcycles. This, of course, meant Harleys. The topic, and the only time I ever remember talking about it, was why didn't Harley release new year model bikes at the beginning of a riding season when people would be most interested? It made sense then too.