{"id":2127,"date":"2019-01-19T05:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2019-01-19T05:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T13:25:55","slug":"where-does-the-line-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/01\/19\/where-does-the-line-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does the line form?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wU1Hv8uuDY4\" width=\"716\" height=\"403\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So the price of the new Harley Livewire has been announced, and it&#8217;s just under $30K. \u00a0 With taxes, dealer setup, freight, etc., it&#8217;s a bike that will be somewhere around $35K. \u00a0 Every blog, motorcycle forum, and motorcycle news outlet on the planet is carrying the story, and I have little more to add.\u00a0 Everyone with an opinion is posting why this makes sense, or why it makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>When Harley came out with the V-Rod 15 or so years ago, I said it would flop, and I posted a comment to that effect on one of the forums:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Wow, a 600-lb motorcycle with 85 horsepower. \u00a0\u00a0Where does the line form?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That comment ultimately was proven correct, and it somehow seems Livewire-appropriate today.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll leave the Livewire pricing, marketing analysis, and deep thinking to the other online pundits.\u00a0 My prediction?\u00a0 It took the V-Rod more than a decade to die.\u00a0 The demise of the Livewire, at $35K, will be mercifully quick.\u00a0 I hope I&#8217;m wrong, but I suspect I am not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the price of the new Harley Livewire has been announced, and it&#8217;s just under $30K. \u00a0 With taxes, dealer setup, freight, etc., it&#8217;s a bike that will be somewhere around $35K. \u00a0 Every blog, motorcycle forum, and motorcycle news outlet on the planet is carrying the story, and I have little more to add.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/01\/19\/where-does-the-line-form\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where does the line form?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,62,103],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-electric-motorcycles","category-harley-davidson","tag-harley-livewire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}