Monday, August 4, 2003 |
16:27 - Exactly
http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/08/Snippetsandcomments.shtml
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Den Beste has a post on Harley-Davidson's efforts to appeal to a broader market with the V-Rod and a decidedly "un-Harley" image makeover.
...But what price victory if you lose your soul? Harley Davidson is changing everything that makes Harley Davidson what it is...
European men everywhere [will] take pleasure in riding on a castrated American bike.
And they'll never know what they're really missing.
Yeah, but Steven, if you were a Harley rider and you said this, you'd be accused of arrogance and chauvinism, of being blind to Harleys' faults, of ignoring economic realities, of having more dollars than sense, of sentimentalizing an arbitrary corporation that's just as faceless and dispassionate and cutthroat as any other, and so on.
Or even of "drinking the Kool-aid".
I wonder if John Dvorak is listening?
In any case, the V-Rod is hardly what I'd think of as "effeminate".
"Liquid-cooled and therefore antithetical to H-D", maybe, but not effete. But if it's what'll sell in Amsterdam and Paris, what the hell...
UPDATE: CapLion has more on just how non-wimpy the V-Rod is.
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