Just read an article about Harley s being the best selling road /cruisers in oz.

The street 500 was the highest at 1605 units and the break out second at 1550 odd who would have thought.

Harley sales up by 14 % .

 

 

Correct, street glide best selling touring bike 395 units Ultra next 239 CVO Streetie 154 units. Five out of top 7 bikes were Harley.

Overall Harley winner of top roadbike sales beating Honda by around 2100 units

I'm surprised the street is the highest sales but I'm impressed harley need this in the learner market for greater exposure

Being LAMS legal the 500 is a lot more important here than the 750. More chance of the second bike being a HD if the first one was too.

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Surly

We'll never know how good or bad the 750 is until it is available here and tested.

In my opinion I think that they are missing out on a market winner.

The 500 puts Harley right where they need to be in the market, the missus is currently riding one on her Ls and its ideal for her size and skills
I am sure when she can ride a more powerful bike it wont be the 750, more like a 1200 Sporty or there abouts, I am not sure where the 750
would fit in the Oz market but I doubt it would be for someone coming up to an open class bike.

FWIW

Hey, why not bring back the XR 750...

Scramblers are all the rage from other manufacturers, the XR might just be the ticket.

I still think that if harley made a specific 750 adventure bike with a new frame, ect sort of similar to the KLR650, would be a seller around the world.

I base this on the fact that the KLR650 is a low reving, low HP, high torque bike. A hugely popular adventure bike used by many to ride through countries around the world. The other thing is if harley made a good sized cataloge of adventure bike accessories for it, theyd sell shit loads of gear. Adventure bike accessories for most other brands are hugely expensive for what they are and comparing some adventure bike accessory prices make comparable harley road bike accessories  look cheap by comparison. Ect: racks, hard cases.

Therse a huge world wide adventure bike market out there just waiting for something a little different to come along with a reasonable priced accessory catologe to match. A HD watercooled 750 in a road trail frame, set up, would do well providing is wasnt priced way over the top. Whist theres many larger adventure/road/trail bikes out there like the Honda Africa twin, Beemers ect, Not everone wants a larger and heavier Honda 1000cc, BMW ect.

With the KLR650 being $8500, and other brands rising to $15000 and more in the 750 and smaller bikes, Theres a spot between those prices for a 750 road trail just waiting to be filled. And even non adventure bikers would buy them just for around town and going to work bikes like many by the KLR650 for.

I never bought one at the time but I did like those Honda XLV 750s they bought out years ago and I used to see lots of them around back in the day.