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Electraglider_1997
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

No dinero from Buell for 16 years. http://www.afr.com/p/business/companies/harley_dav idson_opens_up_the_throttle_R9aLz3232JmXGbhzL6T7fO
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

They structured the business very oddly. I'm sure you could interpret the income in a huge array of directions.

H-D always seemed to treat the BMC as a foreign competitor.
BMC had to buy the engines from H-D as if they were not a related company.
I read that it cost BMC more money to make a Blast than they were payed.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 12:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I also had it on good authority that Buell could purchase a state-of-the-art, DOHC, 143 HP Rotax V-twin from Austria for MUCH less than they could buy a Sportster-derived lump from HD. That's insane.
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Zane
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 02:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

“The comfort of a Harley really suits me.”


WTF??????
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Steveford
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 05:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

They can do revisionist history all they like but Buell was envisioned as being the R&D boys for HarLee, they weren't supposed to really succeed as a manufacturer.
Small wonder they decided to pull the plug when Buell got in a position to purchase Rotax motors and were poised to branch into dirt bikes.
What the hell good was any of that going to do HarLee?
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Court
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 05:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Somewhere ....some Harley ridin' hair stylist is going to believe that crap.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 05:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hillbilly Ed is smarter than that Court, he won't believe it either. : )

(Actaully, I think he rides a KLR and ZX-10 these days...)
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Ourdee
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I ain't got nothin' nice to say.
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Cyclonedon
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2014 - 12:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Harley riders have hair stylist? Why?
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