Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > I was enjoying the Harley Thread

[couchcommando]

Some good discussions there, I can only assume someone spoke out of turn ? ?

[khushy]

Obviously the board is now moderated by a "dictator" wannabe!!!

Maybe from now onwards ALL future posts need to be vetted before they actually appear on the forum - that would make perfect sense.

Khushy

[900MAN]

I've also wondered why there is a big anti swearing thing on here.
I'm not a big swearer but the odd **** here and there does'nt hurt anyone.
Apparentley though, 'young people' read this forum and their young minds would be damaged.
Why on earth anyone under 16 would want to read this forum is beyond me.
My son loves Ducati's but would he come on here? not a chance.
As for flaming etc, it's quite funny at times, we are not the 'Womens Institute' are we? (no offence board ladies)

[jeff st4s]

Oohhh.
It was not hopefully something I said?
I don't mind a bit of banter being a bitter northerner.
I hope I did not over step the mark and bruise some delicate southern harley loving sensibilities on a DUCATI board.
If I offended anyone I apologise. xx

[couchcommando]

I thought as discussions go it was a valid one. As business models go Harley Ducati and now Triumph all use the same one. That is to sell an inferior product by basing the buying decision on emotion and then present you with the 'extras' catalogue.
Luckily for all 3 marques that bike buying is still an emotional thing, if we were to base it purely on figures,costs,stats etc we would all be riding Honda appliances

[jeff st4s]

Sadly ultimately what iritates me, is the fact that we let our industies go to the wall, the Yanks kept funding Harley (out of patriotism) when natural selection should have killed it off.
I have nothing against yanks (I have friends out there, an expensive hi-fi and mountain bike all with the USA flag on it).
When the yanks do something they tend to do it to overkill proportions, which I admire, as long as there is no Harley logo on it the red mist stays at bay.

[twpd]

Originally Posted by couchcommando

I thought as discussions go it was a valid one. As business models go Harley Ducati and now Triumph all use the same one. That is to sell an inferior product by basing the buying decision on emotion and then present you with the 'extras' catalogue.
Luckily for all 3 marques that bike buying is still an emotional thing, if we were to base it purely on figures,costs,stats etc we would all be riding Honda appliances

I completely disagree with you. The 675 and Sprint ST are arguably class leaders and not inferior products. The other Triumph products are carefully targeted at niche markets and again are arguably as good as or better than the Japanese equivalents.

Harley don't really have a Japanese equivalent- they are in a class of one. Japanese "customs" are laughably sad. They more than Triumph or Ducati sell a lifestyle.

Ducati...well they have some problems atm as they aren't attracting new customers and aren't doing a particularly good job at retaining long-terms ones like myself.