Marketing as a Discipline – does not appear to be a strong, well-funded business competence amongst OEMs.
OEMs have failed to address the economic reality plaguing this demographic.
Best I can tell, young people actually like the idea of participating in adventures and going on roadtrips but view bikes as too expensive a vehicle for it.
Not building new motorcycles that young people can afford has been a clear strategic miss by the OEMs in my opinion.
For example, the Harley-Davidson Street 500 MSRP is ,899 plus an estimated 25% for various state and dealerhip charges.