How did this gearbox get the job in the first place
A gearbox, as in tranny.
It’s in Milwaukee. I drove by the company every day on the way to work. In the 20th century Milwaukee had a Socialist Mayor for 40% of that time.
Lastly, when the founders of a company or their families are gone, companies become bureaucratic and are now “managed” rather than being innovative. HD is ripe for a competitor to crush it.
So many major US companies are now run by Woke leaders – virtually all the top 500 companies in the US except the ones run by Musk and a few others. Just the way it is.
That’s it. The family sold out … and then the new LGBTQueer world ordered corporate heads sold out the white hetero Harley enthusiasts. Dykes on bikes – good. White heteros on bikes – bad. Trannies on bikes – BONUS good!
The phrase, “On yer bike”! does admittedly spring to mind here, Kenji-San…
Might take a year or two to get the stink off.
Anybody drinking Bud Lite yet?
I prefer beer.
And I prefer women with my beer … not that other thing.
I never stopped. Reality of life, a drunk cares not the brand nor the temperature of the alcohol. Similarily I would not buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle because of the brand I would buy a motorcycle for the thrill of the ride.
“Ride motorcycles … put something exciting between your legs”. The meetoo movement put an end to that slogan like hitting a tree on your rice rocket.
Whomever controls the education of your children controls the future direction of your society.
Exactly right.
“Only a fool allows his enemy to educate his children.”
That’s an awful lot of fools.
The CA public schools teach the THEORY of CAGW like a Fundamentalist Baptist teaches dancing is caused by Satan. It’s utter religious hysteria. And the kids all come out as True Believers … in utter nonsense
lol talk about ‘do the math’. l like the part he points at the stock price graph over his head right where it starts to slide when mr Woke CEO signs on.
do
the
math.
Now get rid of all the ESG low-lifes.
They’re still woke.
“We take an inclusive stakeholder approach to ensuring profitable growth and sustainable, long-term value for our stakeholders – our planet, people and communities.
Beyond Sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), we seek to drive desirable, positive impact for all our stakeholders based on this simple premise: we all do better when all are included! Our focus areas – Inclusion & Belonging, Driving Positive Impact in Our Communities, and Creating a Path to Net Zero – recognize the interdependence between healthy societies, a healthy planet, and prospering, inclusive economies. ”
We “believe” … yeah … ESG isn’t a secular religion, is it? “We seek to drive” … yeah ESG isn’t a totalitarian belief system?
The freakin’ German guy was never going to make Harley successful. No way. He did not understand the bike, he did not understand the culture around the bike, and he does not understand Americans.
He is, most likely, a BMW guy in real life. BMW’s big new 1300 Adventure has a clutchless transmission, if you can imagine such a thing. It has automagically adjusting suspension. It phones BMW HQ if you fall over in the parking lot, and you have to admit to Surbinder from Rider Support that you forgot to put the kickstand down. And this is supposed to be half dirt bike, right? It’s so civilized I’m sure there’s an option for a clever little German cappuccino maker on it.
That is NOT a Harley. A Harley is a vibrating mechanical contraption ridden by hooligans. It’s a thing you have to set the valve timing on every week, or it’ll go “ticktickticktick” at idle and your fellow hooligans will make fun of you. It’s supposed to sound like the mill-tails of Hell when you grab a handful of throttle.
It isn’t the fastest, or the prettiest, or the most capable, or the long-haul champion. It’s a -Harley-. When you buy a Harley, you are giving the entire world the finger. You are running up the pirate flag and declaring yourself a menace to society.
I don’t have a Harley. I have a BMW, because I hate setting valve timing and I wanted 110HP on a dirt bike. I can go blasting down fire roads in the boonies, and never have to worry that some sh-t is going to fall off from vibration. The Harley “adventure bike” offering made me laugh when I saw it in a showroom. My bike can eat that thing.
But if I DID want a Harley, I would not be buying one of the stupid things with electronic everything that Jochen Zeitz was pushing. The automagical doodads on Harleys these days are famous for being both unreliable and unrepairable. They break in the first 1000 miles, and then the techs can’t figure them out. The Interwebz are full of “Unfixable Harley” stories where guys buy their dream bike for like $50K and then its a boat anchor on their first road trip, because it can’t be fixed and Harley won’t cover them.
Same with KTM. Those have been dropping cam lobes in 6 months of normal use, brake pads falling out, transmissions locking up, all kinds of catastrophes. I am so glad I did not buy one of those things, holy schlitz.
So yeah. Time for Harley to get back to being the Milwaukee Vibrator like the old days. Make ’em big, loud, gnarly and sell ’em for under $10K so p1ssed-off kids can buy them like they used to. Obviously.
This is pretty much why I ride a Triumph. It has the same cool factor, without being as much of a maintenance PITA.
The “metric” bikes just don’t have it and they never will.
Q: A co-worker prefers the pronouns
“they/them,” but I’m used to
using “he/him” or “she/her.” What
should I do?
A:Respect your co-worker’s choice
of preferred pronouns and use it
to refer to them.
Wow … how about organizing your ACTUAL business with a manifesto such as that preachy total crap.
Jochen Zeitz can eat a bag of dicks. Hopefully, Harley hires someone who is in alignment with their customer base / potential customer base.
Lesson #1 – don’t hire ze Germans to run an American icon.
Lesson #2 – don’t hire Brits to run your railroad
Lesson #3 – Never hire a Libtard to manage your economy!
Lesson #4 – never hire the same people who make your laws and tax you to educate your children.
The last new Harley that interested me was the 1991 Dyna Glide Sturgis. The last one with, to me, a proper front fender, on a cruiser. Since then, it’s the same old thing, year after year. They can’t even be bothered to change up the tank emblem occasionally.
Who says Reagan didn’t like tarriffs? Saved Harley back in the day.
The 1983 motorcycle tariff, or Memorandum on Heavyweight Motorcycle Imports, was a presidential memorandum ordering a 45% tariff on heavyweight motorcycles imported to the United States, signed by President Ronald Reagan on April 1, 1983, on the US International Trade Commission’s (USITC) recommendation to approve Harley-Davidson’s petition for import relief. The tariff expired in 1988
…and HD was so thankful that they off-shored most of their manufacturing.
The only thing off-shored is the Shoi front suspension.
How did this gearbox get the job in the first place
A gearbox, as in tranny.
It’s in Milwaukee. I drove by the company every day on the way to work. In the 20th century Milwaukee had a Socialist Mayor for 40% of that time.
Lastly, when the founders of a company or their families are gone, companies become bureaucratic and are now “managed” rather than being innovative. HD is ripe for a competitor to crush it.
So many major US companies are now run by Woke leaders – virtually all the top 500 companies in the US except the ones run by Musk and a few others. Just the way it is.
That’s it. The family sold out … and then the new LGBTQueer world ordered corporate heads sold out the white hetero Harley enthusiasts. Dykes on bikes – good. White heteros on bikes – bad. Trannies on bikes – BONUS good!
The phrase, “On yer bike”! does admittedly spring to mind here, Kenji-San…
Might take a year or two to get the stink off.
Anybody drinking Bud Lite yet?
I prefer beer.
And I prefer women with my beer … not that other thing.
I never stopped. Reality of life, a drunk cares not the brand nor the temperature of the alcohol. Similarily I would not buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle because of the brand I would buy a motorcycle for the thrill of the ride.
“Ride motorcycles … put something exciting between your legs”. The meetoo movement put an end to that slogan like hitting a tree on your rice rocket.
Whomever controls the education of your children controls the future direction of your society.
Exactly right.
“Only a fool allows his enemy to educate his children.”
That’s an awful lot of fools.
The CA public schools teach the THEORY of CAGW like a Fundamentalist Baptist teaches dancing is caused by Satan. It’s utter religious hysteria. And the kids all come out as True Believers … in utter nonsense
lol talk about ‘do the math’. l like the part he points at the stock price graph over his head right where it starts to slide when mr Woke CEO signs on.
do
the
math.
Now get rid of all the ESG low-lifes.
They’re still woke.
“We take an inclusive stakeholder approach to ensuring profitable growth and sustainable, long-term value for our stakeholders – our planet, people and communities.
Beyond Sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), we seek to drive desirable, positive impact for all our stakeholders based on this simple premise: we all do better when all are included! Our focus areas – Inclusion & Belonging, Driving Positive Impact in Our Communities, and Creating a Path to Net Zero – recognize the interdependence between healthy societies, a healthy planet, and prospering, inclusive economies. ”
https://www.harley-davidson.com/ca/en/about-us/sustainability.html
We “believe” … yeah … ESG isn’t a secular religion, is it? “We seek to drive” … yeah ESG isn’t a totalitarian belief system?
The freakin’ German guy was never going to make Harley successful. No way. He did not understand the bike, he did not understand the culture around the bike, and he does not understand Americans.
He is, most likely, a BMW guy in real life. BMW’s big new 1300 Adventure has a clutchless transmission, if you can imagine such a thing. It has automagically adjusting suspension. It phones BMW HQ if you fall over in the parking lot, and you have to admit to Surbinder from Rider Support that you forgot to put the kickstand down. And this is supposed to be half dirt bike, right? It’s so civilized I’m sure there’s an option for a clever little German cappuccino maker on it.
That is NOT a Harley. A Harley is a vibrating mechanical contraption ridden by hooligans. It’s a thing you have to set the valve timing on every week, or it’ll go “ticktickticktick” at idle and your fellow hooligans will make fun of you. It’s supposed to sound like the mill-tails of Hell when you grab a handful of throttle.
It isn’t the fastest, or the prettiest, or the most capable, or the long-haul champion. It’s a -Harley-. When you buy a Harley, you are giving the entire world the finger. You are running up the pirate flag and declaring yourself a menace to society.
I don’t have a Harley. I have a BMW, because I hate setting valve timing and I wanted 110HP on a dirt bike. I can go blasting down fire roads in the boonies, and never have to worry that some sh-t is going to fall off from vibration. The Harley “adventure bike” offering made me laugh when I saw it in a showroom. My bike can eat that thing.
But if I DID want a Harley, I would not be buying one of the stupid things with electronic everything that Jochen Zeitz was pushing. The automagical doodads on Harleys these days are famous for being both unreliable and unrepairable. They break in the first 1000 miles, and then the techs can’t figure them out. The Interwebz are full of “Unfixable Harley” stories where guys buy their dream bike for like $50K and then its a boat anchor on their first road trip, because it can’t be fixed and Harley won’t cover them.
Same with KTM. Those have been dropping cam lobes in 6 months of normal use, brake pads falling out, transmissions locking up, all kinds of catastrophes. I am so glad I did not buy one of those things, holy schlitz.
So yeah. Time for Harley to get back to being the Milwaukee Vibrator like the old days. Make ’em big, loud, gnarly and sell ’em for under $10K so p1ssed-off kids can buy them like they used to. Obviously.
This is pretty much why I ride a Triumph. It has the same cool factor, without being as much of a maintenance PITA.
The “metric” bikes just don’t have it and they never will.
Q: A co-worker prefers the pronouns
“they/them,” but I’m used to
using “he/him” or “she/her.” What
should I do?
A:Respect your co-worker’s choice
of preferred pronouns and use it
to refer to them.
https://s201.q4cdn.com/697889289/files/doc_governance/2025/Mar/06/ENGLISH-Code-of-Conduct-1-b8a76b.pdf
Wow … how about organizing your ACTUAL business with a manifesto such as that preachy total crap.
Jochen Zeitz can eat a bag of dicks. Hopefully, Harley hires someone who is in alignment with their customer base / potential customer base.
Lesson #1 – don’t hire ze Germans to run an American icon.
Lesson #2 – don’t hire Brits to run your railroad
Lesson #3 – Never hire a Libtard to manage your economy!
Lesson #4 – never hire the same people who make your laws and tax you to educate your children.
The last new Harley that interested me was the 1991 Dyna Glide Sturgis. The last one with, to me, a proper front fender, on a cruiser. Since then, it’s the same old thing, year after year. They can’t even be bothered to change up the tank emblem occasionally.
Who says Reagan didn’t like tarriffs? Saved Harley back in the day.
The 1983 motorcycle tariff, or Memorandum on Heavyweight Motorcycle Imports, was a presidential memorandum ordering a 45% tariff on heavyweight motorcycles imported to the United States, signed by President Ronald Reagan on April 1, 1983, on the US International Trade Commission’s (USITC) recommendation to approve Harley-Davidson’s petition for import relief. The tariff expired in 1988
…and HD was so thankful that they off-shored most of their manufacturing.
The only thing off-shored is the Shoi front suspension.