Australian Motorcyclist

SLOW, FAT AND LAZY

YOU ALL KNOW WHAT the biggest-selling motorcycle brand in Australia is, right? It’s Honda. It supplies Australia Post with postie motorcycles, which takes up a meaningful chunk of its 2076 bike-sales.

But who’s the biggest seller of, well, big bikes?

That’d be Harley, with 1812 units sold Year-To-Date 2018. Sure, those sales are down a chunk from the year before (19-odd per cent), but that’s still a lot of bikes – none of which are sold to government agencies or used

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