{"id":48258,"date":"2011-04-22T05:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48258"},"modified":"2011-04-22T05:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T12:11:21","slug":"harley-davidson-courts-the-youth-market-seems-confident-about-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48258","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson Courts the Youth Market; Seems Confident About Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pantheon of motorcycle mythology in our culture, and some of these stories are heard so often they must be true, right? One of these\u00e2\u20ac\u201doft repeated by posters to the MD chatboards\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis that Harley-Davidson is living on borrowed time, selling the same overpriced, under-performing products to the same aging buyers\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and when they die, so will die H-D, as a singularly brainwashed pack of Baby Boomers are solely responsible for the MoCo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s undeserved success. That the same predictions were made in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 makes no difference to the doom-criers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the best-selling brand of streetbikes to 18-34-year-old buyers?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2011\/04\/harley-davidson-courts-the-youth-market-seems-confident-about-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pantheon of motorcycle mythology in our culture, and some of these stories are heard so often they must be true, right? One of these\u00e2\u20ac\u201doft repeated by posters to the MD chatboards\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis that Harley-Davidson is living on borrowed time, selling the same overpriced, under-performing products to the same aging buyers\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and when they die, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48259,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258\/revisions\/48259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}