Motorcycle sales, January-to-June 2020

You should see the RVs full of ORVs and dirt bikes in Idaho and Wyoming. The Big Horns are full of trails. Head up a forest road and park and ride.
 
I hope that a lot of off-road bikes sold included a generous number of small trail bikes suitable for kids because that's the only way to build a strong base for motorcycling in the next decade and beyond.
 
DirtFlier said:
I hope that a lot of off-road bikes sold included a generous number of small trail bikes suitable for kids because that's the only way to build a strong base for motorcycling in the next decade and beyond.
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I can tell you in Wyoming, I saw lots of little ones riding little dirt bikes at the sides of their folks....for some reason, at this campground, I always see some folks from a religious sect I know not who, but the women wear long dresses and bonnets, and the men dress conservatively, and they bring big toy haulers with quads on trailers and ride the trails.
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Yup! Get 'em away from their electronic babysitters and get 'em out into the real world!

Mike
 
Time and consumer preferences can create permanent changes. I don’t think motorcycling as we experienced is every coming back anymore than Sears, J.C. Penny and the malls are going to make a comeback. My father used to complain that they didn’t make things like they did when he was growing up. Time marches on and it waits for nobody.

Some get it.

In a recent interview, Bezos explained that he believes “Amazon will be disrupted one day” and eventually “will go bankrupt.”
 
I reminisce a lot but you can't turn back the clock. I don't see motorcycling in the future as we saw it in our past.
There are good and bad things about different time periods. My mind mostly chooses to remember only the good ones.

Brad
 
"...Point of fact, some of the outlaws, gunmen, famed Western figures of the West's later years, finished their lives as performers for public exibits - showing audiences some of what life was like....JustPassingThru"

I suspect those wild west shows provided an often-fictionalized version of the way it was, much as the movies did decades later.
 
A friend of mine was bemoaning the loss of jobs, and the "romance of the road" with the coming of the totally self driving semi truck.
I told him, "Now you know how blacksmiths and livery stable owners felt when cars took over." "Now you know how bow and arrow makers felt when guns took over."
The same story has repeated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Only the characters and the central item changes. The theme is the same.
 
When my brother and I (two years apart) were 10, 11 or 12, we took the bolt out of our dad's .22 rifle, put it in a pocket, put the gun across the handle bars of our bicycle, and rode down Main Street to the hardware store. We bought a box of .22 Long Rifle bullets (Shorts were FORBIDDEN in that gun), and rode to the dump on the edge of town where we shot cans and rats.
No one said a word. No one stopped us. If we met the city cop, he would just wave. He knew us and knew where we were going.
Imagine a couple of fourth and fifth graders doing that today. Helicopters and HumVees would descend on the town from above and from all directions. Our parents would go to jail, and we would become wards of the state, sent to foster homes or detention centers.
That was the 1950's. A simpler, and arguably, a better time. Of course, it was also a time of polio and diptheria and flu. Of wood burning heating and cooking stoves and out houses.

Not sure I would want to go back, but I sure WOULD NOT want to be a kid in our present world.
 
When I was high school we would take our .22's to school in the morning and stash 'em in a nearby woods in the morning and after school go squirrel hunting. During deer season with a parental note, you have an excused week off for deer season. In the lead up to deer season we could take our rifles to school to clean 'em and take a firearms safety course. My best friend kept his 8mm Mauser in his locker at shop class while he made a walnut stock for it.
Imagine doing that in this day and age!
 
Things are a bit different. In grade school I did a project on the uses of gunpowder. Part of the display in the school gym was an 1800's era rifle. Don't remember if The bullets were there also.
Probably not a good idea today in schools.

Brad
 
Bet there are no rats in your transfer station. read trash export place.
 
mikesim said:
.... My best friend kept his 8mm Mauser in his locker at shop class while he made a walnut stock for it.
Imagine doing that in this day and age!
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I remember that Sears had a catalog that you could order old military rifles from around the world. Not very expensive either.
I am sure my grand parents wondered what was to become of young people. "They don't even know how to make their own soap!" :LOL:
 
My dad bought me an '03 Springfield at Sears when I was in grade school. The chamber was never drilled to accept a round so perhaps was made that way for high school ROTC, ceremonial duties, etc.

ps. how did "motorcycle sales" morph into cowboys, firearms, what you did in grade school? :)
 
I have a 03 Springfield. Manufactured in 1914 and it has only had 20 rounds thru it. I shot those rounds about 45 yeas ago. The rifle came from my Grandfather to my Dad to me. Grandfather worked at the Springfield Armory between WWI and WWII. Serial# 588915.
 
I notice most mornings when I look in the mirror so I now try and shave & brush my teeth without looking in the mirror! :)
 
for me it is old timer's.... I ferget from one thread to the next what we wuz talkin' about...

:unsure:

Mike
 
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