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Old Jun 6, 2008 | 11:57 AM
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From the top this time......
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Old Jun 6, 2008 | 12:43 PM
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Big dog is going to go out of business in the future.&nbsp\\; American Iron Horse is already bankrupt.&nbsp\\; The days of selling $30K customs&nbsp\\;are gone.&nbsp\\; OCC really helped drive the custom market, but they are long in the tooth now.&nbsp\\;
 
Old Jun 6, 2008 | 12:45 PM
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Old Jun 6, 2008 | 12:49 PM
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Short career:

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Old Jun 6, 2008 | 01:18 PM
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This is not good.
 
Old Jun 6, 2008 | 01:41 PM
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Big dog is going to go out of business in the future.&nbsp\\;\\\\\\; American Iron Horse is already bankrupt.&nbsp\\;\\\\\\; The days of selling $30K customs&nbsp\\;\\\\\\;are gone.&nbsp\\;\\\\\\; OCC really helped drive the custom market, but they are long in the tooth now.&nbsp\\;\\\\\\;
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&nbsp\\; American Iorn Horse will be making bikes this year.I know the new owner and hope he can get them back when they need to be.
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wow..
 
Old Jun 6, 2008 | 07:19 PM
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occ built there giant new WORLD&nbsp\\; headquaters and now its empty talk about timeing
 
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Big Dog Motorcycle Co is&nbsp\\;pretty strong financially and is no different than HD was in it's conception. Any large company that is stuggling in&nbsp\\;todays economy has to have some type of reorganization. If a company does nothing it will fail. I can't say that I feel Nick's (A freind of mine)departure was the best move, however a companies direction comes from the top. Some people are good at making changes and molding a company and some are good at steering a company that is in good times and&nbsp\\;already thriving. I feel Sheldon is doing a little reorganzation and at the same time motivating the balance of his staff. That Dog still has a lot of bit yet! Besides someone said there's no need for a thirty thousand dollar bike.......what the heck are all these people in this forum doing building motors adding chrome etc to turn there 20,000.00 HD into a 30,000.00 plus custom! Big Dogs come stock that way. Sold three today.
 
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