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Apr 22, 2020 | 01:03 PM

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IBE

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maybe they didnt sell enough bikes and harley gave them a choice.buy or build a new place what we want as a showroom or no more bikes for you. i have seen car dealerships do the very same thing. hey never know

Apr 22, 2020 | 01:50 PM

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merlin 2

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Most all the H D dealers around Chicago are owened by the same people .

Apr 22, 2020 | 02:01 PM

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Super Glidester

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Yeah H-D dealers are becoming part of the auto dealer monopolies in any given area. i though monopolies went away in the 80's? It seems funny how things are reverting back to being crooked.

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Apr 22, 2020 | 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Super Glidester

Yeah H-D dealers are becoming part of the auto dealer monopolies in any given area. i though monopolies went away in the 80's? It seems funny how things are reverting back to being crooked.

Which means all dealers will eventually be managed and priced the same. Motorcycle prices are fixed no matter what dealer you go to.
Buy outs eliminates the competition. The remaining dealers are set with a fixed price, no negotiation..
Kind of like the Tesla model, dealers are all owned by Tesla. IIRC, Tesla got in trouble with franchise laws that requires car dealers to be independently owned. Factory direct dealers are illegal..or something like that.

Apr 22, 2020 | 03:27 PM

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Sad news, another one bites the dust.

Apr 22, 2020 | 04:35 PM

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Gizmo83

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Originally Posted by Michael Psycle

From the article above "Out of towns with populations greater than 5,000 Colby, KS was the most isolated." I spent a night on Colby on a cross country ride and I have to say it felt more isolated and in the middle of nowhere than at any other place we stayed on the ride. I doubt there was a Harley dealer with hundreds of miles in any direction.

I-70 through western Kansas and eastern Colorado is... well, awful isn't it?

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Originally Posted by skratch

if they are offering a buy out, does that infer that maybe someone else will be buying that dealership and it'll just be changing ownership?

I sure hope so, but I haven't heard that. It's a nice building right off I-70.

Apr 22, 2020 | 05:31 PM

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Michael Psycle

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I-70 through western Kansas and eastern Colorado is... well, awful isn't it?

What I remember most about that stretch of I70 was the wind. There was a constant wind that hit me slightly from the side which meant I was leaning the bike into the wind for hours. The night I spent in Colby did cause me to feel isolated, but I liked the town of Colby. I had a nice dinner in a Chinese restaurant and bought a shirt in a store in the same strip mall. And then there were all those signs about Colby being where opera singer Samuel Ramey grew up. I have enjoyed listening to him sing both live and on recordings. For that reason alone I had positive feelings about Colby. They gave the world a wonderful opera singer. I read up on the history of the town while there and had great respect for the original settlers of the town and the hardships they had to endure.

Apr 24, 2020 | 08:09 AM

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Another one just a ways east on I-70 from the first dealership I posted—

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#29

jamala00

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It's only going to get worse... Motorcycle industry in general is a dying hobby... I have 4 HD Dealers within 30 miles of my home. I'm wondering how long all 4 are going to be able to stay in business.