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  • gidgi
    gidgi
    6 years ago
    Edit  removed link for privacy reasons  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWvvCrf4-k        a different link but along the same lines
  • Soapbox2627
    Soapbox2627
    6 years ago
    wonder i they were given the hats to wear or they actually own a Harley
    still not good in job losses
  • mick44
    mick44
    6 years ago
    Electric bikes er
    Might have to go buy a deck of cards and pack of clothsline pegs and peg the cards to the spokes so everybody hears me comming along. Just got to work out how to lift the front wheel of the ground, lean forward and spin it at traffic lights. 
    Seriously, electric bikes might work for inner city yraveling to work. Useless as tits on a bull otherwise unless your a gay bull
  • Humbug
    Humbug
    6 years ago
    So what was the privacy reasoning for removing the link in the first place?
  • mick44
    mick44
    6 years ago
    Im not convinced that these new technologies being introduced are anywhere near ready for release in a genuine practical sense. Sure, electric cars would be a resonable alternative with inner city living where you can slow charge the cars all day whilst your in the office. If you need to drive them through the day, then their even more useless with restricted charging options.
    Australia is too big a land mass to realisticly use an electric car outside suburban areas. To me, batteries are too restrictive. Youd need to seriously increases battery voltage above standard supply voltage 240 ect which means too expensive to supply charger voltages above 240 volt. Now these new fast charging capable chargers use the average power of up to 20 homes in just one charge. These technologies will only work if they invent the mythical cold fusion reactor. Now we see a driverless car with a bloke in the drivers seat but not actualy driving the car, still crashed into and killed a pedestrian. Why do we need driverless cars and busses. What, to stop some low paid bus drivermaking a few measly dollars. It experts are conning everybody big time. Im not convinced that it experts have the knowhow at this time to invent the multiple redundancies in the programes they write. We hear the spin question that asks: do you programe the driverless car to smash into to car in front or should it turn to avoid a collision but risk hitti g and killing a pedestrian. Its a bullshit spun question. What you wont  hear is why isnt the question thus, what redundacy systems are built in to cause the driverless car to drive in a gap cause its it programming can allow it to react that fast. Electric cars for practical use in Australia, fail. Driverless cars: con job for it companies to fleece lots of money out of a country.
    Edit: Only the fictional starship Enterprise had mutiple redundancy systems built into all its systems. 
  • boxa
    boxa
    6 years ago
    Some how , i think i might be  one of the few who think this way , but in a convo the other day mates were talking about Harleys sales drop , and  there might not be any harleys  doom and gloom , and i was the only one to say, so what , they deserve, it for all the gouging thev'e done of customers over the years ,, Am i the only one who remembers a couple of years ago the  arrogance of  Harley stores , with there take it or leave it , we have enough buisness anyway  attitude .

    I know my last harley i bought  new 2016 ,   i screwed them to a good deal ,  and knew then  they were gonna struggle ,in the future , simply because they gave me a good deal ,  shit trade in price as normal , so i sold my trade in private  for $1500 more than they were gonna give me , and probably 3-4 grand less than what the guy who bought of me could find one for .

    Remember vividly my first ever encounter with , harley ,  i went along to buy a dyna , missis was with me ,  and after looking  and talking turkey  ,  we went and bought her a pair of jenny rebs , 50 bucks i think they were ,  anyway we were looking at this dyna , and she said , your not having it ,, What  i said ,, no i want that one she said and pointed to a nice new RK , which was the bike i wanted , but was sure she would'nt have a bar of  being a lot more money , So we sat down , think from memory it was around 26 grand , plus backrest , plus pipes , plus plus plus , all in all  close to 30 grand ,   anyway i tried to deal , salesmen said were harley we don't deal ,  i said ok i know that ,  so no worries ,  i then said i'm happy to take it write you a check out now , pick it up when the check clears ,, But  i said i've got to get something so  i want the price of the jenny rebs knocked off ,, the ones i bought 10 minuits ago ,, he threw his pen down and said were Harley we don't have to deal , I said STICK IT .  aND THE THING IS HE WAS'NT OTHERED , EVERY MAN AND HIS DOG WHEN THERE HYDROS CAME IN AT THE TIME WAS RUNNING CASHED UP BUYING HARLEYS , THERE WAS A WAITING LIST FOR THEM ,

    Basicly harley treated Aussie punters like shite for years , and now its biting them on the arse , times are changing , I hopr there sales go down even more , cos i like my harleys , and when there desperate for buisness i'll screw them down even more ,,, Learnt one thing when dealing with harley dealers , no freinds in buisness
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    6 years ago
    Its just not the HD Dealers, i am still waiting for the trade in value on my car from a dealer whose vehicle i had for a weekend, and that was 3 vehicles ago!
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