Is Harley-Davidson running out of customers? [View All]

[Ernesto]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Harley-Davidson Inc., the U.S. motorcycle maker, insists it isn't nervous.......
But analysts and others who watch the company say it's in the middle of a coming-of-age drama that might be called "Uneasy Rider."
As the Baby Boomers who transformed Harley's rumbling, lumbering bikes from countercultural totems into American icons enter their senior years -- the leading edge of the generation is turning 60 this year -- they're increasingly in the market for knee and hip replacements, not Harley's notoriously bone-shaking bikes.
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