0:00 [Music] all right let's talk about why people don't like Harley-Davidson anymore the bikes are they racist now D I love them more now they're not racist I I heard that they were they've been failing the past decade because they captured the boomer generation really well too well but it was like so like exclusive that yeah they didn't start adding the newer and they tried with like try to make things like what was that one style that they had it was more like cafe racers and they tried to get hipsters in but it just didn't mesh lame I have my own reasons why I don't like them and I find it weird that they don't address the reasons that we think most people don't like them here's
0:51 what they say so like 2023 sales it's uh the sales reports are in it's down 11% um it's been reported that like customers are angry at wokeness because they have a new CEO that came in in 2020 they made it woke and how do you make them woke I guess it I don't know it doesn't really ████ matter to me so now they alienated their own ████ customers this is how they did it so they're pledging to they did a thing where they were they pledged to participate in Dei and inclusivity with well a lot of companies had to do that during that time a lot of companies opted to do that because statistics had actually shown better work retention like more people would stay at companies knowing that the company uh ran itself that way so it it does make for better I think workplace environment
1:41 but customer base wise it doesn't always seem like it translates to that uh so uh production of harleydavidson also decided to move some operations to Thailand was the first time they're not not inica yeah cuz too expensive here and yeah exactly so they they cited that high inflation and economic constraints are forcing them to have to manufacture outside of us which is like they're going against everything yeah it's supposed to be the all- American brand that's for the working class right affordable that's why it got so popular times are changing I mean what are your reasons I think it's just a the brand is whack like I think it's gay like in the way that like South Park calls it gay where I think like it became such a wannabe brand that all it
2:33 became the dad weekend warrior official like dork brand and I and they refuse to acknowledge that they're not acknowledging that like the dorkiest people you hate in the world have Harley's it's like guys that grew up as dorks but then finally like they think they're cool yeah and it's like yeah if you are cool and you have a Harley I'm not talking about you I'm talking about these people that are there's people that cosplay this badassness that you don't really need to do that anymore watch we know you're not a 1ent how do you properly be a Harley-Davidson I like the guys that actually like the bike I I like the I like when they do like bobber style or like they um they get older ones and then they redo them and then they customize it and uh they look really ████ good I think just the
3:23 association of being a Harley guy became so dorky well yeah here's the problem right there's videos now that was going around saying I used to be this weak little soft boy but now here I am today and it's like a dude and a blonde long hair I know what you're talking about yeah a Harley like and it's just like yo that's stock Mufflers on those Harley like what this s███'s white that s███'s gay you know but but here's here's yeah here's here's the problem with me with Harley is just they don't think on how they build where the oil cap is and where the oil o is oh oil hole is under the exhaust they make it very difficult to work on Harley's on the new ones on the newer ones and then here's the thing too is the stunt Community the motorcycle
4:13 stunt Community they're all going and moving on to sports and Dinos which is Harley too I think Sportsters yeah Sportsters they're actually making it cool again but it's only in like a stunted Community but people get Harley and think they're automatically cool by wearing that's the problem yeah specific vests boots they're trying to be The Stereotype and then they buy the motorcycle helmets that has like a mask on it and then instantly you're like whoo that's episode of Sons of Anarchy and all of a sudden they want to wear a rocker right and then um but I do think like the old school sports sters the custom world like there's still a lot of people that they're just artists they're they're ████ dope right they also don't like the Dork dad entering the but there's all the dentists who are weekend gangsters right
5:05 they're like they're like dentists and they're just dorks but then they wear like leather on the weekends and they think they're bad badasses and they go cosplay and like drink beer are there are there more potential like cosplayer dork dads in the world than there are actual like cool bikers right because if there are then it's like it's you're just investing in a long-term business move if The Branding made sense and you owned up to it you know what's funny though um is is now like when you see all of these like Instagrams of like biker gangs like stopping like sport bike guys and all that the whole comments is just calling the biker gang guys gay yeah it's so funny they're like and then there's like there's like a running joke where they're like yeah man these guys they didn't let me pass they stopped me down on the road they pulled up to me and
5:56 then they dropped my pants and started sucking me off I love those comments and you're just reading like oh he's going to get beat up and at the end it's always and then they ████ suck me so hard I love those cuz there's always going to be someone that's asking wait why can't you pass Harley how come they don't let you pass and then some guy answers oh because you have to make out with them afterwards and they they perpetuate this thing where like Harley guys are want to ████ you you know what's funny those comment those guys that comment that if there were writing they wouldn't dare pass Mongol or Hell's Angels I regardless what they say yeah the rule may be lame but I promise you those guys won't those guys won't pass mongos for sure like I I even I I encountered them to the point where I just had to be behind him the whole time cuz I already knew the rule regardless I thought it was lame or not i' always stay behind
6:46 them but those guys will literally ████ push you off the roads dang especially Mongols cuz Mongols don't play you know there's so many stories were just recently last year where Mongols and Hell's Angels were shooting at each other oh well they're actual gangster that's why but then like on like I hear that a lot I think I hear it more than I see it yeah if that well no there's news last year you could literally look it up there's news where a bunch of guys on the Harley ended up shooting bunch of guys on the ████ their vehicles or other bikers other bikers got shot they had to get pulled over there's there's actually a good amount of news on that last like that happens nearly as much as kids on bicyles ████ with you that's more frequent it's rare cuz I've encountered people in car cars when I was on the motorcycle I was one of those lame guys hey yo don't pass us slow down because
7:36 we're about to we're about to pop wheelies right here on the freeway to the point where I still have that video where the old the guy in the truck you know eggs us on and next you know we're like yo what the ████ your problem we look down his window he pulls out a gun right next to me and my buddies and we're all like oh ████ we all we all had to bail out you know what I mean I've definitely encountered those situations and I still have a video to this day but um like if there's a if if it's Harley's without without patches and stuff and they're doing stuff like that then that's super gay you know what I mean I agree with that I 100% agree with what about if they're the ████ writers for Christ patches man I'll pass them with thank you but see I think that's the thing is like all like there's some Harley dokers that want you to think
8:26 that's who they are and they carry themselves like they're 1% I see those a lot you're not bro like shut up like tank top they would wear tank top show off their arms and ████ even if you're just like a guy that likes a bike and you just like your sporty or you like your D or whatever and then you just get like pulled up on with like a the dorkiest ████ guy and he's like hey yeah we're the same like imagine how much that kills it for you like it kills for Harley but here here's the freaking this is there's signs that you know they're lame that's how it is dude hey there's signs that you know they're lame their license plate is shown and in a stock bumper for it's not sideways and B yeah well like some a lot of Harley like Savage Riders they don't have plates they ride dirty they don't get you shouldn't even say that cuz now all the
9:16 lame people are going to listen and be like oh that's no the lame people follow the law yeah no that's the thing lame the lame people follow the law a lot of stunters they don't we don't like to show plates but you know those dudes on Harley with the big ass ████ side bags and a loud ass stereo and their pipe is cut and they just want you to look that dude needs to go aged to a certain point but there's one point there's one time I saw this one dude loud pipes radio he's playing Hannah Montana real gangster real gang if you're trolling that ████ was dope though I'm not going to lie Party in the USA big black dude hard I was just like Party in the USA everybody was giving him hype and he was just like yeah Party in the USA but that's the thing is like reputationally right everyone would know what you're talking about like everyone would know the idea of that annoying
10:06 Harley guy people don't really give a ████ about like di inclusivity like that they're just not going to buy the bike because of the image yeah like they don't care about how you're running your company that sales are down or up or that they move to Thailand before any of this even happened it was already on its way down it's been like decad since people are like oh that s███'s kind of whack they made all their bikes look plastic and cheaper yeah like but then but then quality did go back up it took a big ass dive and then like it went back up but either way I don't think it recovered in terms of like societally how it makes you like look and feel like it's you just can't like the bike anymore because there's so much dumb ████ around it yeah it's people people ruin it yeah well the reason why it took off was because a lot of dudes coming back from like Vietnam War or whatever and um it was very affordable
10:59 like it was it was super accessible that's why the youth got a hold of it pretty easily yeah and then they customized it they did their thing they built the whole culture around it but what they never did was evolve it like sport bikes all this stuff like there's new generations right that are going to like do different ████ to it I think Harley just stayed with that' 60s 7s whatever generation and then they're still living off of that Legacy but it's the people that were cool doing it they're all dying out came but they did come out with a live wire a live wire the electric Harley oh yeah yeah I saw is that cool to you no that s███'s L me I think that's that's where inevitably alltech is going to go that way I don't think it's like I don't think it's like betraying your brand I think that's stupid to think that you should just ignore better technology but at the same
11:49 time it actually the sales are a little bit up on that wow it's the door key people buying it that's what I mean that's how you know that it's like oh okay it's now it the I think like what you used to see Harley as is so expired it's just another bike brand now it's not like it doesn't set itself apart anymore there's no more Sons of Anarchy guys it doesn't feel like a thing that you have to like I I guess like not not that I want to gatekeep and think you should earn it but like I I I thought it was just I just like the bikes but then now it's like people are buying it to like almost get a free pass to being badass I like stupid I really like Sportsters but people say it's a girl bike harly people call it a gay bike which is the thing you know like sporties sporties are sick yeah they said that's an entry level girl bike they say it's it's for your girl to ride
12:40 a but that's that's the part is that like I think the backfired thing is that they were so busy calling gay that they became the ████ thing that they were like they became gay like their whole thing is now that yeah to me that's my personal experience but I don't hate on nothing man long as you're not driving a riding a three-wheel motor MC and say I'm a badass don't you hate on Hell ████ ableist yeah you're right
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