Harley-Davidson will introduce an entry-level motorcycle next year, which is call for celebration.
For long-time readers of RideApart, you'll know that I've been absolutely on Harley to build something that's actually an entry-level motorcycle. Something that isn't a Sportster, really, as despite it being somewhat cheap among new motorcycles, and the brand's most inexpensive offering, it's still a heavy, high horsepower, $10,000 motorcycle. It takes skill a beginner doesn't have to ride one. That, my friends, isn't entry-level anything.
Yet, while Harley themselves will admit that most folks' entrant into the brand is the aftermarket, that doesn't help the struggling Motor Co. rescue itself from years of catering purely toward the old, monied Boomer crowd who ate up FX's Sons of Anarchy. It desperately needs to inject new blood to keep its 100-year history alive, which is something I want to see, too.
