Big fat rear tire, chrome, nice fit and finish. Big fat hairy old school HD combined with a modern look and modern tech. Water cooled. A better handling frame. It didn’t have to leave a quarter mile long strip of rubber on the pavement like a vMax. Just something fun and cool to run around on. Something that you could take on the winding roads and mountains and have some fun. And something someone could get excited about.
BUTT. It didn’t happen.And Instead, we got this.
But imagine how cool a Harley would have been if they got into the naked superbike thing when they were strong. And if they put a little love into it. A blend of that signature HD fit and finish and thump into something new and exciting. They could keep their nostalgia thing going (more on that later) on a few models, and then spoon feed some enticing new tech to their customers. They didn’t necessarily have to compete head to head with the Japanese crotch rockets. Just something fun and radically new. A hybrid super bike cruiser thing. Borrow from that crazy radical V max. Add some a that beefy Harley flair.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
Boom. You just gave them an out.
Especially when the customers that brought HD roaring back to life in the 80’s and 90’s are mostly living in retirement villages now.
Oh yeah, and that nostalgia thing. There’s a time and place for it.
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My little wokies at HD marketing. Now is your time. And central Florida is the place. And today is the state of mind. This is right under your nose. Probably in your desk. Open up that HD history book to around the year 1925.
Or this
Or this
Why is dating so frustrating and difficult for a guy?
Ok, not bad. I guess . But nothing jaw dropping. Nothing that inspired a lot of people to say ~ “gotta have it!”
Do it. Before Polaris/Indian sees this and steals your lunch money (again)
This is your chance to shine. If you pull this off, no one will care that your name is Chad and you wear a dress. No one will care that you couldn’t hack law school and you opted for a marketing degree instead. No one will care that you were hired at HD to fill DEI numbers. You will be like Freddy Mercury in full drag ~ on stage in front of 20,000 outlaw bikers , screaming “WE will WE will rock you”. Or Rob Halford screaming “hell bent! hell bent for leather! They will cheer you. They will bear hug you. They might even kiss you. On the lips.
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The only way that I could see HD surviving is if they innovate their way out of the death spiral.
Put the HD name on this. Stop hiding your electric bikes behind some silly name, like serial1. Really?? No. Say ~ this is HD, MF’rs!! Say it loud and say it proud. Put one of these in every sun room in central Florida. Strap one on the back of every motor home tooling down i~77 southbound in October. Offer some crazy over priced accessories. Bags, baskets, elegant fasteners for oxygen tanks. Nav system with heart monitoring, health , whatever, etc. Give Tim Cook a call. Team up and put 2 of the worlds most recognizable brands together. Use it or lose it.
Think this.
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And for those diaper wearing diehard 1%’rs? “You can have my Harley when you pry it from my cold dead hands”
Maybe something like this (excuse the rough AI renderings, it’s just a way to get it out of my head and in a pic)
I liked HD and I owned one.
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Are you ready? Think electric. Think nostalgia.
But I always wished that they would be more innovative and progress a little more. They did half assed attempts with buying Buell and the V Rod. But it didn’t seem a genuine attempt. It seemed like they just tried to throw something at certain market and see what happens. They were fat and happy at the time.
