Hate to bring this up but,
With fuel prices up 40% can you imagine the price of an 09 Harley.
RUT ROH!
Sooner or later we are "really" going to get hit with the loss of strength in the dollar. Steel is more, rubber is more, hell everything is more. It truly has to impact cost of goods soon.
The only way for it not to impact bike prices is for HD to absorb the loss of profit and who knows how long they can do that to hold pricing. If they raise prices too much it will affect volume even more and then it begins the spiral down that leads us to recession because it won't be only the MoCo that has the issue, we will see it (and are seeing it) throughout the entire spectrum of business.