Why is Harley-Davidson dropping diversity initiatives after the right-wing anti-DEI campaign?

Conservative old men who haven’t seen a movie since Dennis Hopper stopped being a leading Hollywood draw.

The demographics for Harley-Davidson are just as grim as their sales figures: the average Harley customer is over 50, and the average age of a registered Harley motorcycle is about 10 years.

They sell obnoxiously, stupendously overpriced bikes to old white men who wear Donald Trump jackets.

Is there a possibility that we are living in a simulation and that there is a concept of rebirth?

They’re terrified to abandon these guys because they know these guys buy their bikes, at least until they go broke buying Trump shoes and NFTs. Millennials think Harley Davidson is a joke, mainly because Harley Davidson is a joke. Gen Z is like “Harley who? You mean the Joker’s girlfriend? Margot Robbie? Yeah, she’s hot.”

So what do you do if your existing customer base of geezers and sycophants hates the idea of you selling to a new demographic? If you’re Harley, you keep selling to the old demographic and hope for a miracle.

What happens if they try to attract new customers?

What does "feeling like your life is over" mean and why is it not in any dictionary online?

But Harley is trapped. They’re a lifestyle brand, not a motorcycle company. When you look at them as a lifestyle brand rather than a motorcycle company, a lot of things start to make sense.

What is their product?

If Toyota were facing demographics that grim, they’d, you know, change their lineup and try to appeal to new customers.

What's the most trivial thing that ever made you go to the doctor?

Big noisy eyewateringly expensive machines that make senior citizens feel like it’s still 1962.

What is their lifestyle?

Harley geezers love spreading contempt for smaller, lighter Japanese “rice burners,” after they’ve taken their Geritol and used their walkers to hobble to the front porch for another rousing afternoon of “hey you kids get off my lawn.”

What is your best gay fantasy?

All their existing customers shake their canes and whine about them “selling out.”

Typical Harley-Davidson customer

Whenever they try to get new customers, they risk pissing off the dudes who were born to ride Donald Trump, or at least fellate him.

Why do Trumpers and MAGA Republicans care who is trans and who is gay ECT? If they didn't have a personal interest in transgenderism it shouldn't matter so much then, right?

The Geezer Brigade starts flinging their walkers about and posting angry diatribes on AOL.

This…is not a healthy company with a bright future ahead.

They need new customers or they’re done. Their existing customer base is aging out and, well, dying. Millennials don’t like their motorcycles, but Harley has long been a company that flat-out refuses to change their products to match what people want; they’ve long believed they should make whatever they want to make and people should just buy that.

Can you make a fake K-pop group? It can be with any idols.

What happens if they build new bikes?

Next year, things will turn around. Next year for sure. We just have to hang on until then. Next year.

Harley-Davidson is facing some rather unfortunate demographic realities. If you look at their sales since the 1990s, they’re looking pretty grim:

Why is my coworker suddenly being so mean towards then being nice like nothing happened? She is nice with everyone but me.