Why is Harley-Davidson dropping diversity initiatives after the right-wing anti-DEI campaign?

What happens if they try to attract new customers?

The demographics for Harley-Davidson are just as grim as their sales figures: the average Harley customer is over 50, and the average age of a registered Harley motorcycle is about 10 years.

They sell obnoxiously, stupendously overpriced bikes to old white men who wear Donald Trump jackets.

What does it mean if I had a dream about my mom who passed 12 years ago waking up from her coma and asking for my dad? I have never had a dreams about her since she has been gone.

Big noisy eyewateringly expensive machines that make senior citizens feel like it’s still 1962.

They need new customers or they’re done. Their existing customer base is aging out and, well, dying. Millennials don’t like their motorcycles, but Harley has long been a company that flat-out refuses to change their products to match what people want; they’ve long believed they should make whatever they want to make and people should just buy that.

What is their lifestyle?

While emptying a house, have you ever seen something in it that blew your mind?

But Harley is trapped. They’re a lifestyle brand, not a motorcycle company. When you look at them as a lifestyle brand rather than a motorcycle company, a lot of things start to make sense.

Next year, things will turn around. Next year for sure. We just have to hang on until then. Next year.

What is their product?

What are some lesser-known facts about Bollywood and the Indian film industry? Are there any insider secrets that only those in the industry would know? How reliable are these claims?

This…is not a healthy company with a bright future ahead.

So what do you do if your existing customer base of geezers and sycophants hates the idea of you selling to a new demographic? If you’re Harley, you keep selling to the old demographic and hope for a miracle.

Typical Harley-Davidson customer

Did your siblings abuse you growing up? Not your parents, specifically your siblings, or other children in the household you were raised with.

The Geezer Brigade starts flinging their walkers about and posting angry diatribes on AOL.

They’re terrified to abandon these guys because they know these guys buy their bikes, at least until they go broke buying Trump shoes and NFTs. Millennials think Harley Davidson is a joke, mainly because Harley Davidson is a joke. Gen Z is like “Harley who? You mean the Joker’s girlfriend? Margot Robbie? Yeah, she’s hot.”

Harley geezers love spreading contempt for smaller, lighter Japanese “rice burners,” after they’ve taken their Geritol and used their walkers to hobble to the front porch for another rousing afternoon of “hey you kids get off my lawn.”

What nonsense did you hear today in India that made you laugh?

Whenever they try to get new customers, they risk pissing off the dudes who were born to ride Donald Trump, or at least fellate him.

Harley-Davidson is facing some rather unfortunate demographic realities. If you look at their sales since the 1990s, they’re looking pretty grim:

All their existing customers shake their canes and whine about them “selling out.”

Why do people with trauma easily recognize other people with trauma through eye contact?

What happens if they build new bikes?

Conservative old men who haven’t seen a movie since Dennis Hopper stopped being a leading Hollywood draw.

If Toyota were facing demographics that grim, they’d, you know, change their lineup and try to appeal to new customers.

What was the worst spanking you ever got? Why did you get it, and how was it given to you?