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Despite making all those mistakes Honda more or less crushes the market. Competitors carve out their niche of a few ten thousands bikes, a few hundred thousand bikes, even a few million bikes while Honda rolls on its way to nearly 20 million unit annual sales and they just might have beat Harley for #1 in the USA FY14. If they didn't they are right behind and between HD and Honda they have nearly half the US sales last year. (Not saying much, still below numbers of 10 years ago and projected to further decline as 60 year old males soon start eyeing wheelchair and hover-round purchases) Does Honda miss a few thousand of this, or tens of thousands of that? Maybe........... but if the reason to be in business is to grow and make money Honda seems to do OK.Let's face it, Honda's marketing strategy is not apparent to most of us. How many millions have they wasted on the DN-01, NM-4, Valkyrie, CT-1300 and their chopper lineup? How many of you have actually seen any of these bikes on the road? I haven't seen any and I ride 40,000 miles a year. They won't they bring the Crosstour or Crossrunner to the US, but import the naked CB1000? We all know how well naked bikes like that sell here. Yet the big adventure bike market, the one that is actually growing in the US, is ignored. The new Africa Twin comes over next year and again, it's a tweener that doesn't have the amenities of a full bore adventure bike and is too heavy and road oriented to be a real dirt bike.