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Where is the moto industry headed?

If people continue to buy bikes, they will continue to be produced. A chicken + egg dynamic if you will. Governments won't voluntarily give up a revenue stream, no matter how minuscule. Bribing the burgeoning public sector or corporate overlords isn't cheap. Alcohol, then tobacco, then casinos, now sweet marijuana and in the future, competitive polygamy. The squidy squads wadding up their sportybikes on Youtube is merely taxable content, man, approved by bots as safe for advertisers. Diversionary fare keeps wreathed heads off metaphorical pikes, soooo, listen to the moto-industrie whisper: crois-moi, ma puce, tout ira bien. Speaking of the French, when will those gallic fellows start building motorcycles again? When the helmet laws crumble under the ripe accusations of racism, I like to think I would look pretty handsome puttering along on a REAL cafe racer, maroon beret at a jaunty angle (but not from a second hand store). Then I could justifiably flick half-smoked Gauloises at BMW riders who include "teutonic rocket" in a sentence. Not that it will do one bit of good, in this nation of branch plant managers and real estate miners. #inrebcomehome
 
I was never a follower of Inreb so.....wtf ?????
 
If anything, the beginner market has improved exponentially in the past few years.....

People lament the loss of shops, but that's the way everything is going. With online shopping being so quick and easy for consumers, and cost efficient for businesses, you have to offer some extra to survive as a brick and mortar shop.
I seem to think along the same lines. As an enthusiast, I am excited about where it is going. Certain things will change that I may lament once I become a crusty curmudgeon, but until then I embrace the changes. I do like the bricks & mortar stores, but I also do some shopping online.

I wonder how long it will be before the electric bikes permeate the entry level segment with bikes that resemble the 500cc and under market of today.

Perhaps one thing on the insurance front that would make it more palatable for riders is if they could have one insurance policy for multiple bikes, instead of having to pay multiple policies while only being able to ride one bike at any time.
 
I handle that by insuring one bike for the entire year and then the other from July 1 st onward if I want both on the road in the second half. It's 50% of the premium on the second bike.

This year I just insured them serially but the Vstrom is gone so no issue this coming year. But yeah one rider multiple bike insurance.
 

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