This is inflation!!!!
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,337
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From: Sunny South Florida
Riding it and chroming it. 
I really don't see a big difference with the prices. When adjusted for improvements and inflation as well as average income I would really say it was about a break even.
Either way, no matter the cost, we keep going back for more don't we?
I really don't see a big difference with the prices. When adjusted for improvements and inflation as well as average income I would really say it was about a break even.
Either way, no matter the cost, we keep going back for more don't we?
Tourer
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 365
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From: near Chitcago
HAHA! I heard that!
...and my checking account is feelin' it.
...and my checking account is feelin' it.
Road Master
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,248
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From: Jacksonville, NC
I think there's been more inflation in the gas we put in the bikes. I remember when I got my driver's license about 13 years ago and gas was only 99 cents. Now of course it's 3 or 4 times that.
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 255
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From: MN
In 1949 the average annual income was somewhere around $2,700 a year. That would take over 3 months of your income to pay for the bike of $750; today the average income is about $41K, which would take about 2.5 months to pay for the $17,400 bike. If my numbers are correct it would seem we would have more disposable income today, putting aside our current economical state
"Disposable income" I wish I could find mine! 
The good old days, I remember I could go to the movies, get popcorn/soda, afterwards go bowling and probably spend around 3 bucks. When I found a quarter on the ground I was in hog heaven (pun intended). How about a pack of smokes, go to the casino here in Vegas and it will cost you like 9 or 10 bucks.
I know we made less years ago and everything cost less but dang, didnt it just seem different then???
The good old days, I remember I could go to the movies, get popcorn/soda, afterwards go bowling and probably spend around 3 bucks. When I found a quarter on the ground I was in hog heaven (pun intended). How about a pack of smokes, go to the casino here in Vegas and it will cost you like 9 or 10 bucks.
I know we made less years ago and everything cost less but dang, didnt it just seem different then???
Club Member
Joined: May 2007
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From: 40 miles Northeast of Indy..
Not all things have went up.
Seems like it was 87 that I got my first home computer, custom made.
It was a 386 with 2 meg of ram and had a huge 84KB hard drive. Clearly remember the guy saying thats ALL THE COMPUTER U"ll EVER NEED. And It had the GEO opperating system. Windows was just coming out...
Price $3200. with a monitor and Dox mat print.
.
Seems like it was 87 that I got my first home computer, custom made.
It was a 386 with 2 meg of ram and had a huge 84KB hard drive. Clearly remember the guy saying thats ALL THE COMPUTER U"ll EVER NEED. And It had the GEO opperating system. Windows was just coming out...
Price $3200. with a monitor and Dox mat print.
.
Cruiser
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 182
Likes: 0
Not all things have went up.
Seems like it was 87 that I got my first home computer, custom made.
It was a 386 with 2 meg of ram and had a huge 84KB hard drive. Clearly remember the guy saying thats ALL THE COMPUTER U"ll EVER NEED. And It had the GEO opperating system. Windows was just coming out...
Price $3200. with a monitor and Dox mat print.
.
Seems like it was 87 that I got my first home computer, custom made.
It was a 386 with 2 meg of ram and had a huge 84KB hard drive. Clearly remember the guy saying thats ALL THE COMPUTER U"ll EVER NEED. And It had the GEO opperating system. Windows was just coming out...
Price $3200. with a monitor and Dox mat print.
.
Makes you wonder why the price of electronics have gone down so much while demand is greater then ever yet things like cars and bikes didn't really have the price drop if compared.
Of course I don't want a car from the philippines.
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 17,145
Likes: 6,168
From: SE Michigan
Thats not what he was saying. He was saying that the cost of a motorcycle relative to annual income has roughly remained constant.
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