THE WORLD’S UPSIDE DOWN
Cruisers from BMW and Adventure bikes from Harley-Davidson. If it gets any crazier, nice people will stop riding Hondas. I’ve had plenty of people tell me these brands are nuts, that they should stay with what they are good at and stop trying to reach into genres dominated by other brands. Kind of reminds me of when a Telstra spokesman said “Apple should stick to its knitting”. In 2007, the telco believed the functionality of the iPhone would be eclipsed by the likes of Nokia and Motorola. Younger readers might never have heard of those two once-dominant mobile handset manufacturers. Apple (and later with Google’s Android phones) killed them. I don’t think we’re going to see a repeat of that process in motorcycling, but it’s a smart move by manufacturers not to…