I believe HD has 40% of the market...very well run company and marketing is superb!!!! Love them or hate them their business model is first class !!!
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On what planet
I know in America they did sell a few more than Ducati ???
But thats it
If their around 1/2 a million bikes new sold a year in America say and Harley sells maybe a touch over 250000 World Wide and 40000 of those in America, me thinks someones smoking something and I want some
But I do know for sure that Harley Davidson does lead the sales in Harley T-shirts, Bandannas and fake tattoos
Some FACTS to check out....Harley produced 260,471 Motorcycles in 2013. In EUROPE, NEW motorcycle registrations were DOWN 6.4 percent while NEW Harley Davidson registrations in Europe were UP from 12 percent to 13 percent of NEW motorcycles registered in Europe year over year.
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee....html?page=all
"Current Stable"
2013 F6B - black
2006 Harley Davidson Screamin' Eagle CVO Ultra
2009 KLR 650
2003 Harley Davidson FLSTSI
2003 Harley Davidson FLSTSI (yup, 2)
2001 Harley Davidson FXDXT
2006 Aprilia Scarabeo 500GT
1981 Hondamatic 400
1980 Yamaha Exciter 250
1973 Honda CB360
2009 Yamaha C3
And if you want to know the currant sales info for almost every MC made try http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcyc...statistics.htm
even stats on the strange Ural Motorcycle with "1,206 units sold. Of those, 1,151 were exported from the Irbit, Russia, factory. The U.S. is the biggest market for new Ural motorcycles; half of the worldwide production (604 motorcycles) were sold there. Of those, 428 were the Gear Up, Patrol and Patrol T models and 8% of all Urals shipped to the U.S. were the two-wheel-drive sidecar versions. Most of the Urals are sold in New England, California and Texas."
yea I know TMI, but there are a lot of facts about MC sales on the site.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot -
the guy who invented the second one... he was the genius!
http://theringfinders.com/blog/Larry.Royal/
I don't find it hard to believe that Harley leads in sales. Everywhere I go that's all I see. The areas I ride in middle MO and Illinois I think I see 8 Harleys to every 1 of something else. Their customers are their best advertisement. To second what was said above , a very smart well run company.
The same thing here in Australia a few years back
Yeap, every sunny Sunday before lunch lots of shiny Harleys everywhere with lets play dress up riders on their way for a Latte mega decaf, maybe 40 kays up the road.
But now their all up for sale for twice as much as they brought em for because of all the shiny stuff on em and the same Coffee joints are full of SUV's ?????
Don't believe me ???
The Motorcycle for sale places on the net have thousands of Harleys for sale a few years old with at best 20 thousand kays on em and 3 years old.
Thats around 4000 miles a year
maybe 80 miles a week??????
Here in Australia theirs a bit of a distance between Coffee shops ???