Janus
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What are these, pictures for ants?Damn, this merciless image crunching here makes detail less apparent and darkens what is already pretty damn dark.
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What are these, pictures for ants?Damn, this merciless image crunching here makes detail less apparent and darkens what is already pretty damn dark.
They must be since they get rescaled downward and recompressed from an already downscaled pic on flickr – But even flickr's smaller rescaling for screens that need it (like an ant's computer or ant's phone) looks more accurate than the one the forum here makes.What are these, pictures for ants?
Last summer we were riding along the north shores of Lake Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario and the majority of the riders were on Harley Davidsons. We ran into a few Indians, and several metric bikes from Europe and Asia. But mostly HD riders. No question they are big comfortable road bikes. I think the reality is that this is North America and H-D simply dominates this market. Despite all the media press saying that HD is shrinking in sales and that the ADV-Touring bikes are gaining share, the reality is that the big HD cruiser style bikes are a huge % of the market and if that market shrinks a little, the other markets can double and still remain unnoticed on the streets.Gotta say, I'm seeing a LOT more Harley riders (maybe some of those are also on metric cruisers) from long distances away as well as more local riding in Glacier NP as well as everywhere else I've been riding this spring and summer – and a lot less of any other bike category. In fact the cruisers outnumber all the other bikes together, with only local dualsports making much of a dent. Never let it be said that the Harley crowd just parks in front of roadhouses – there are some serious lovers of the journey and the sights on cruisers.
Harley, for years, has been responsible for over half of all new motorcycles sold in the USA. They have no business (heh) going bankrupt— a path they charted well before Covid.Last summer we were riding along the north shores of Lake Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario and the majority of the riders were on Harley Davidsons. We ran into a few Indians, and several metric bikes from Europe and Asia. But mostly HD riders. No question they are big comfortable road bikes. I think the reality is that this is North America and H-D simply dominates this market. Despite all the media press saying that HD is shrinking in sales and that the ADV-Touring bikes are gaining share, the reality is that the big HD cruiser style bikes are a huge % of the market and if that market shrinks a little, the other markets can double and still remain unnoticed on the streets.
I've seen the video and agree with much of it.Harley, for years, has been responsible for over half of all new motorcycles sold in the USA. They have no business (heh) going bankrupt— a path they charted well before Covid.
They became addicted to debt and dividends, for the sole benefit of stockholders. The saga of HD 'going public' is the quintessential story of the failures of late-stage Capitalism.
Here's Ryan FortNine with a fun video on it: