Lenny, no question about it, you got it right. Right now--today--there is no big market. That is going to change dramatically.
There are 78 million baby-boomers. One out of three Americans is a boomer. Every time we transitioned to a new phase of life (getting a new school, our first drivers license, the military draft, retirement) there was such a crush of people we taxed the system providing that service.
In fact, you could make a very good argument for the concept that boomers built Honda motorcyles. That company had to grow making bigger bikes as we got bigger. And in like manner, when boomers graduated college and started families we almost ran Harley-Davidson bankrupt. Then magically, we turned fifty years old, got our kids out of the house, and many became "born again bikers."
We are now all becoming sixty years old. Bad knees, bad backs, old injuries. To tell the truth, I'm a bit disheartened by how many people my age are suffering from over eating, drinking and smoking. I look fifty, they look seventy. We have 14 commemorative black bricks at the clubhouse. Only one died in a shooting. Three died in wrecks. The rest died about the age of 55 to 60 from health abuses.
If that is a national trend--and I believe it is--a whole bunch of boomers will need trikes. Right now a decent trike does not exist.
"Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?" Brad Pitt as Achilles in the movie 'Troy'
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