| Author | Message | ||
     Electraglider_1997 |
No dinero from Buell for 16 years. http://www.afr.com/p/business/companies/harley_dav idson_opens_up_the_throttle_R9aLz3232JmXGbhzL6T7fO | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
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. | ||
| Hughlysses |
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. | ||
| Zane |
“The comfort of a Harley really suits me.” WTF?????? | ||
| Steveford |
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? | ||
| Court |
Somewhere ....some Harley ridin' hair stylist is going to believe that crap. | ||
| Reepicheep |
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...) | ||
| Ourdee |
I ain't got nothin' nice to say. | ||
| Cyclonedon |
Harley riders have hair stylist? Why? |
