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News Approved.

Its a good move. I'm reminded of the past cases, whereby the 5 star hotel was not respectful to some Xbhp bikers. And they also gave priority to car owners..

There should be more such tie ups to ensure that atleast the 250+cc motorcycle owners get good hospitality, while they tour.

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

Good news for Harley Owners

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

Apart from reserved parking , their is also nearly 50% discount on almost everything you can do in a Taj.
Taj membership is also offered free of cost and entitles HOG to Employee level discounts & privileges.

Even some other Group of Hotels already have Discounts year round for HOGs just by flashing a Hog card. I Stayed at Manu Maharani last year in Nainital , in peak tourist season. On phone they said they were packed full, When I rolled down their porch on a Harley , they were happy to accomodate me with 50% discount with just a photocopy attached of my HOG membership.

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News


WOW!! I am highly impressed!! This is another star to the Brand Value of HD. I am getting more inclined towards HD now Old age and these types of brand building exercises are enough to pull me towards an HD

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

Bullshit move.

Why does Harley presume that anybody who has their bike will be able to afford stay in a 5 star.

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

So are you saying that anyone who is shelling minimum of 5 LAKHS INR on a bike won't ever stay in a 5 star hotel??? And that too when the rates are being discounted???

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

So we should save to get a HD Street750. atleast.

Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

I feel they will make sure that higher segment buyers will get more benefits. It will all depend upon the money you spent on your Harley.

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Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

HOG membership is same for all bikes. Free for first year , paid thereafter , although amount is nominal .
Benefits / offers would be same for all HOGs. Atleast till now they are same irrispective of bike owned.

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Great move!

I read somewhere that people who buy Harley don't pay for the bike, they pay for the HOG membership and they get a motorcycle free.

Steps like this will surely give riders more value for their money and also make a brand stand apart from the crowd.

There might have been some HOG members who might find 5-star hotels a little out of their affordability, but majority of them will welcome this move.


p.s.: There was a time when motorcycle riders were given a second-class-citizen treatment at five star hotels (which still is the case). Hell, there was a time when I had to fight to even take my helmet inside a hotel in Delhi. But hopefully with steps like these bikers will be treated at par

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If thats the case Harley will surely bring a complete change in biking scenario of India.

Sunil G surely things are changing with time. Just yesterday I was thinking about the change we are witnessing in regards of Automobiles after 2008. These things feel so worthwhile and I would like to give credit for this to Bajaj, Yamaha in past and Harley, Kawasaki now.


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Re: Harley-Davidson India to offer H.O.G. members a premium experience: xBhp News

That is not going away. Even the Gurgaon Thekas have become snobbish! A famous theka in cyber city has a no helmets rule nowadays. Surprisingly they had a "HOG owners parking" reserved too. Talk about contradictions.


On Topic: Harley hasn't put a foot wrong in India since they came in. They have clearly positioned themselves well and their tie-ups/exclusive parking spots are very good value for the target segment. The HOG membership/tie-ups/exclusive parking spots are amazing value additions.
So much so that even my car crazy Punjabi relatives (who always wonder why I prefer bikes over the comfort of a car) are now sayin -- Sir ji ab toh aap Harleee le lo..

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Apart from HOG membership , I personally feel Harley bikes are good enough to command the money as well.
They are well built , and built with love and labour. They preserve the artistic touch of yesteryears .
Like seamless gas tanks , manual Tig welding , cast aluminum foot controls & hand controls.
What japs did to automobiles helped them to reduce cost and become competitive. They brought on machines to replace every possible thing that a machine could do. Just to cut labour cost and reduce non production hours.
Harley is still a very labour intensive manufacturer ( tig welding gas tanks with two halves being joined like an egg shell and hand assembling engines & chassis components) . Even Hero & bajaj have more machines doing these things in cheap labour nation like ours
Chevy & Harley are loved by most in america because they provide them jobs and japs provide them goods.

Some say Harleys have no technology: making push rod engines and making them last a maintenance free million miles is itself epitome of technology.
They were first to introduce oil pressure lifters to make push rod adjustment free.
V-rod and street 750 proves that they can make modern bikes aswell , but they choose to keep the original dream alive.

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I dont see any reason to stay in a 5 star hotel.

A biker who travels alone is normally the rough and tough type(not trying to stereotype. Apologies). And such person who is willing to travel alone in this dusty country on 2 wheels with his luggage tied on the back with bungee strings doesnt exactly seem the clientale that a 5 star is looking for and such person isnt exactly a person who would care about a 5 star in the first place.