Harley No Mo Hails Its Outlaw Bikers?

Harley-Davidson’s “used” outlaw bikers bitched to WSJ about being “abused” by woke pussies, er, company execs, who have “abandoned” them as if their mommas? Time does march on & we all do have to grow up, no?

There is a certain tour de force behind the “bad-boy riders” who say they stood by the Milwaukee motorcycle maker through thick & thin, especially circa 1970 when the company was facing insolvency, but are now persona non grata in Harley’s new sales pitches geared to the younger generations. They say it was they who gave the Harley-Davidson brand it’s “bad a**” image over the years “and even claim a role in helping to “build” its success,” only to be “kicked to the curb as the company shoots to expand globally. Is there anyone who would dare argue with the bikers, who btw were often felons, about their selfless loyalty to the brand? “C’mon. What brand gets tattooed all over people like Harley,” one bad boy leader told the newspaper. “You know? Harley got loyalty & billions in free advertising from the bikers.”

All of a sudden, however, the same disillusioned biker said, “If I walked into a Harley-Davidson dealership with my patch, they snub their noses.” But, want to know another sad Milwaukee story, the once capital of Midwest beer companies that bragged about its unmatched array of star-studded brands? There’s a reason why the city’s MLB team is called “The Brewers.” At one time, more than 30 breweries were going full steam ahead. While Milwaukee is still a beer brewery powerhouse, maybe not so much after such brands as Miller, Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst & Gettleman “made Milwaukee famous” but, then, were either partnered up with bigger companies, taken over outright, or reorganized in order to avoid going belly up. The point? The bummed-out bikers should know better than anyone that “s*** happens” … and business, as does life, must go on, with or without their rap sheets.

Davd Soul