http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3171859.stm "Depending on your point of view, the world's biggest gathering of men in mid-life crisis is about to get underway in Milwaukee." -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"
When are we leaving? I liked this. "Packing a paunch The leather jackets will also hide a fair acreage of paunch because the age of the average Harley-Davidson owner is 46, eight years older than the average rider of a Japanese or German bike. "
I mis-read the photo caption of "The company was founded in a shed by two friends" as "The company was founded making sheds...." However, the final paragraph sums it up really "In Milwaukee this weekend, there will be a celebration of roaring defiance - by men who don't want to grow old and by a company that refused to die." It's a tragedy that there's no such companies left in the UK that can produce idiosyncratic products with the right market appeal and quality
"Andy Ashworth" said SNIP It's a tragedy that there's I don't know, what about the company that makes those nice little three wheelers, you know, the folding Zimmer frames for the elderly?? ;-)
Heh. There was in article in today's Independent about Harleys. Made me fair chuckle, it did. I can't find it in their web site though.
....and you know what you can do, don't you. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"
When you get laid.... so years yet. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"
Are they not in the Far East now? -- Guig GSF600SY Bandit - It's blue you know. CBFA #1 Oh for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen.
LOL. It's all true though... I helped out on a stand at one of their rallies down this way, and it was full of middle aged Dennis Hopper wannabes'...
"Most of its models are heavy, cruising bikes..." <fx:attempts in vain to avoid drawing comparisons here with your own business>
Hmmmm, I was'nt really thinking of domestic goods as such, but Dyson are, in my mind at least, a wholly British company given their Malaysian manufacturing base. Fundamentally this country has lost the ability to make things - our nation's economy appears to have shifted to now rely upon services and imported products. I'm afraid, as Napoleon foretold, we've become a nation of shop-keepers.
Bollocks! We're very good at making things. We just can't make them competitively due to the ridiculous government meddling and restrictive legislation. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"
Bollocks...... the one thing I can make is apostrophe errors Where are the apostrophe police so I can turn myself in?
Like you'd be prepared to pay more for everything to show your commitment for such things? ...I don't think so. Like most BHaLC you harp on about workers rights but search out the best deals you can find. I'd take you more seriously if you boycotted products from countries with poor records on workers rights. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"
Sadly I don't have spare cash to be fussy I would if I could. BHaLC? I think Champ is more likely to give you a number for that before he gives me one! I'd take you more seriously if you I don't eat McDonalds on principal, but that's not for their human rights issues. I also refuse to buy stuff from Israel - not because of the way they treat their workers, but everyone else in the region.
Nice try... but businesses are run much more efficiently than they were before. They are, in general managed better. I go for the best deal I can get so much of my machinery is Italian or German. I have no problem with where anything comes from or how many small foreign children died making it. errr... Unions? -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"
