What will they say about the decade of 2010 40 years from now?

 

Lots more variety, that's one thing. If I'm around in 40 years I probably won't care what they say.

 

Bunch of Posers!!

 

RUB's

 

"Can you believe it, they thought black was the new chrome!"

 

Recession and declining sales for HD causing labor troubles and threatening plant closures.

 

I won't be around either but I have no doubt that motorcycling will not exist any more with internal combution engines. The NHTSA is doing all they can to get rid of motorcycles and as a burecracy they have years to try over and over to do it. For that matter I doubt that cars as we know them won't exist either. Probably be all electric. I have seen over the years the attacks on Harley and bikers. They will win eventually.

 

Hey ED, is your phone # I812?

Bwana

 

I think the bagger trends will figure into the stereotypes: tall skinny front wheels on baggers, elongated hard bags, that sort of thing. Rocknrick nailed it too; the "blacked-out" trend has been taken up by the metrics so it's pretty solidly fixed in history for posterity. But damn, I sure hope Fossil is wrong. I can see us on electric motorcycles (and I have no problem with that), but if the NHTSA wins just because they're trying to be political--"Look, we made the roads safer by getting people not to use them! We're not useless! Increase our funding!"--then we haven't done our jobs very well. Suppose I'll re-up on my AMA membership this year...

 

the real question is:

Will they have the roads all smoothed out in the next 40 years?