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#16 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:30 pm (Last edited: Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:30 pm)

That's efficiency for you
We probably have fewer workplace shootouts

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#17 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:03 pm (Last edited: Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:04 pm)

Zitat von Ali-bear im Beitrag #16
That's efficiency for you
We probably have fewer workplace shootouts

Good question.........I don't know if an employer in the US can now stop an employee from being armed at work?

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#18 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:45 pm

Personally i think what kills readers including me from staying with some forums or reading some of the topics is the subject drift once a post of interest is started. A good example is this exact one. Started on a topic that was on a website and a few good thoughts then it drifted to vacation time and now we are on guns in the work place. Are we even on page 2 yet with this topic?

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#19 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:00 pm

They probably can die out, as 'pre-retirement' I had 6 weeks and 4 days leave, plus half day Maundy Thursday - 'God save the Queen' so would not contribute when 'orf on me olidays'

Now I am retired I can plan for weeks to do naf all while perusing the internetweb so too busy to join another forum.

Maybe there are enough oil/tyre/esa/vibration/wind noise responses already in any google search so the art of contributing is a dying art!

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#20 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:05 pm (Last edited: Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:37 pm)

Zitat von Dave H im Beitrag #19
Maybe there are enough oil/tyre/esa/vibration/wind noise responses already in any google search so the art of contributing is a dying art!

Just within the hour, I insulted someone's choice of bike color. Therefore, I feel the art of contributing is alive and well.

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#21 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:15 am

Zitat von darrell im Beitrag #18
Personally i think what kills readers including me from staying with some forums or reading some of the topics is the subject drift once a post of interest is started. A good example is this exact one. Started on a topic that was on a website and a few good thoughts then it drifted to vacation time and now we are on guns in the work place. Are we even on page 2 yet with this topic?

Sorry.

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#22 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:31 pm

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #6
I do not think there is going to be the same bounce with the millennial generation as they were never into bikes in the first place, have longer mortgages due to extortionate house prices and are having kids later in life. Where they do have disposable income, they seem to want a camper van not a bike.

That was my point, the industry survived without that bounce once before, the 80s and early 90s. I'm fairly certain it will do the same in the future.

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#23 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:29 pm

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #22
Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #6
I do not think there is going to be the same bounce with the millennial generation as they were never into bikes in the first place, have longer mortgages due to extortionate house prices and are having kids later in life. Where they do have disposable income, they seem to want a camper van not a bike.

That was my point, the industry survived without that bounce once before, the 80s and early 90s. I'm fairly certain it will do the same in the future.

you seem to have missed the point I was making entirely

the bounce in the 80s & 90s was, in the UK, down to people, boomers, born post WW2, who had ridden bikes as teenagers in the 1960/70s, returning to biking post childcare/mortgages. These are the same people giving a bit of a bounce now in retirement.

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#24 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:54 pm

My apologies, I was being US-centered in my comments. Those years were a low point in MC sales for us.

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#25 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:00 pm

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #24
My apologies, I was being US-centered in my comments. Those years were a low point in MC sales for us.

admittedly, it was the late 80s when UK sales started to rise, with bikes like the CBR series, GSXR750 & VFR750 selling very well, then we had the Hinckley Triumphs, Fireblade & R1 in the early 90s. By 2000 we had the adventure bike boom.

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#26 | RE: Are on-line motorcycle forums slowly dying out? datum

Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:11 am

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #25
Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #24
My apologies, I was being US-centered in my comments. Those years were a low point in MC sales for us.

admittedly, it was the late 80s when UK sales started to rise, with bikes like the CBR series, GSXR750 & VFR750 selling very well, then we had the Hinckley Triumphs, Fireblade & R1 in the early 90s. By 2000 we had the adventure bike boom.

Relative to our overall market, the bikes you mentioned don't really register. HD dominates our street bike market.

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