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Highside/Lowside - A Motorcycle Podcast

S5 E4: The Moto Industry’s Biggest Blunders: American Edition!

Highside/Lowside - A Motorcycle Podcast

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Motorcycles, Motorcyclenews, Leisure, Automotive, Revzilla

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

The world of motorcycling has had its highs and its lows throughout history. Today Patrick Garvin joins our hosts to discuss the latter, specifically the goofs and blunders in the ole US of A. Tell us if we missed any other flubs or mis-steps!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to High Side, low side. This is our motorcycle podcast, here with Common

0:10.0

Tread. I got Mr. Zach Courts. I, of course, am Spurgeon Dunbar, and we've got a heck of an

0:15.1

episode for you today that we do. Take him through, it's Spurgeon. So we've got some

0:20.7

T-shirt winners. We've got some news. Actually, there's some exciting stuff in the news

0:24.9

today. And a lot of what we will talk about in the news are that the last half of what

0:29.0

we're talking the news actually will tie into our topic. And our guest, our guest today

0:33.4

is Patrick Garvin. He is the lovable little character on our team that is really known

0:39.5

as being the resident Harley Davidson expert in Fishingado. And today, the discussion is

0:45.1

going to focus on, we changed the title right before we decided to shoot this. The working

0:50.3

title has been thrown away. We are calling this motorcycle industry mistakes. And this

0:55.9

is the American edition. So what does that mean for the audience, Zach? So this is historical

1:02.3

motorcycle blunders in the industry, right? Like things that are sort of like looking

1:06.7

back mistakes that were made. And we'll chew that over. And it seemed like Patrick being

1:12.0

our colleague at JMP cycles, an aficionado, and all things American V-Twin that would be

1:17.6

good to bring him in on this conversation to talk about the American motorcycle industry

1:21.2

and some of those mistakes it's made over the years. And I will say this does, yes, if

1:27.0

you're already thinking this, it does suggest that at some point there would be a Japanese

1:30.6

edition, a European edition, you know, other sort of bastions of motorcycle industry. So hopefully

1:36.3

we'll get there. We'll see though. If the feedback's really bad here, maybe not, I don't

1:39.6

know. Well, we don't want to just pick on the American motorcycle manufacturers, but we

1:44.7

did want to try and narrow the scope a little bit because as we were brainstorming ideas,

1:48.7

it became clear that if we were to include, you know, all of the motorcycle blunders that

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