IMHO they need better offerings if they expect to get there. But I'm sure NAM is likely a pittance of a % of that global percentage, it's all India/Asia scoots and e-bikes.
Honda Sets Its Sights on 50% Share of World's Motorcycle Market
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IMHO they need better offerings if they expect to get there. But I'm sure NAM is likely a pittance of a % of that global percentage, it's all India/Asia scoots and e-bikes.
There's more sales opportunity (and riders) in the "Global South Market" than there is the rest of the world combined. Those bikes though are not usually what the rest of the world is looking for.
They just need to produce cheap scooters that can carry 8 people and a goat if they want more global market share. It is almost like all motorcycle companies want to do is produce less models with similar equipment and options so I am not that excited about anything new that comes out anyway. We can't even get the NT1100!!!
Sorry, I'm being negative.
Sorry, I'm being negative.
I seriously doubt the "e-bikes" will amount to much of anything in that Global South market. As the manufacturers are realizing in the auto market side, the demand is not there, and the electrical power grid is nowhere close to handling the additional demand that the gov't has said we would buy and like it.
On one mission trip to Africa, we didn't know if we'd have any power at all when we got back to our rooms for the night. And if we had power, would it be there when we woke up. Plus, the practical range of an e-bike goes down considerably as you add more people and the goat on the bike.
Chris
Depends on the size of the goat. FYI, Nubian goats weigh up to 310lbs.
Jerseyst
Official Crown Royal TeSTer
Ride the Goat then?
We took a vacation several years ago to Japan and Taiwan. I was amazed at the number of scooters and "motorcycles" less than 175ccs. Thousands upon thousands. Parked very tightly on the streets. And the little hole-in-the-wall shops to service them. Plus, all of them on the roads. I just don't see that turning into electric bikes. Besides, how would you charge that many?
Chris
Chris
Or do you buy 10 Ferraris or 1 Civic,.
Besides the goat, 3 family members and bales of hay to feed the goat. 2 chickens to feed family member and 4 more to sell at street market
Andrew Shadow
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I recently returned from Thailand where there are countless scooters everywhere. Overwhelmingly, very overwhelmingly, what I saw was almost exclusively two models of Honda scooters available at rental places- The Click 125 and Click 160 Scooters. Those two models of scooters were all that was available at every rental place that we went to until you got in to the much bigger scooters, which mostly seemed to be Hondas as well. If Thailand is at all indicative of the Asian market in general Honda is doing quite well by the look of it.
We recently visited northern Vietnam, and scooters were everywhere. Many were Hondas, no idea if it was over half the total, but there were scads of them.