Just go into any motorcycle shop on a Saturday and you'll see most people in there looking to buy a motorcycle are in their 40s or older.
It will be interesting to see in ten years if any of these kids/teenagers on Ebikes today will feel inclined to buy motorcycles as they age into their 20's. I think motorcycle companies will need to make inexpensive motorcycles, $4000 or less, and keep them simple from an electronic point of view, and see if they can't create a market for them.
And we had mini-bikes and The Wild One and Easy Rider and Then Came Bronson and CHiPs and James Brolin on Marcus Welby with his Triumph/Yamaha 650 and Little Faus and Big Halsey and CC Rider and On any Sunday and Electra Glide in Blue and rock and roll and Boones Farm and hippie chicks to take for rides etc etc...Good damn times.
Indeed some damn good times to be into moto's...... And Rock N Roll.
The other day I heard someone say "back in the days when you could hear james taylor and black sabbath on the same radio station."
Back in the day - the 60's- you could hear jazz and rock n roll in the same hour on the same radio station. Instrumental (jazz) hits like Lee Morgan's The SideWinder, or Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Cannonball Adderly were top 40 hits. Then vocal jazz tunes like Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaria, The Girl From Ipanema by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto or Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendez were being played at the same time Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Beach Boys etc were being played. That's because DJ's were music lovers and had some control over their playlists. That all began to end in the 1970s and was completely gone by the 1980s. Today, most people have very limited tastes in music.The other day I heard someone say "back in the days when you could hear james taylor and black sabbath on the same radio station."
Spotify has "release radar" and likely Pandora does as well.
So, I tried something a little different a few weeks ago. Like many, I use a streaming service that makes suggestion based on things it knows I like and I've discovered some new stuff that way. YouTube also suggests new artists, based on past interests. These were starting to stagnate though, and they seem to prioritize artists that are more popular and well known, at least in the genres I like.
