The original post was the market is flooded. That may be true. For several years folks have been buying the cruisers in a frenzy. Buying them with the banks money. These folks that have bought bikes that 1. generally don't break and 2. they still owe money on, are not likely to go buy another bike quickly. Once they pay it off and they see the junk money it brings just a few years later they feel physically ill and hesitate before doing it again.
Interest rates are also going up. If I heard it once I heard a dozen times here, "Once I get this paid off I will get a". You can't keep increasing sales by 10% every year. After time you run out of customers.
The other trend is sport and sport touring. Got Torque in the mail and tried really hard to find a big picture or mention of a Speedy or America. One cover was Tiger and the back cover was Sprint. Me thinks maybe even Speedy and America sales are off.
