Truthfully, H-D has no business with any of the three, Adey had good insight on Triumph, KTM is a huge dirt bike marketer in Europe, and they're about to break into the European street scene in a bad way with the Super Duke 990. Then we have Ducati, a marque that actually has an engineering background and talent, and I mean the desmodromic valve actuation, in both air- and water-cooled engines, their 250HP Desmosedici MotoGP bikes, and a host of other technological ingenuities, as opposed to Harley that really isn't an engineering outfit at all, and had to contract out to Porsche to have them design a modern engine vice their Evolution 88 engine. That coupled with the fact that Ducati is still producing World / AMA Superbike Winning bikes; basically, I hope the Texas Shareholders that own Ducati realize that if Harley makes an offer, it would stain the entire Ducati legacy to accept it. If Harley wanted to appeal to a younger crowd, they should put more money into Buell, the XB12S Firebolt would be an awesome street bike, if it didn't rely on a pushrod V-2 as it's powerplant. Just my long-winded $0.02 worth.
