Priced Out of New Bikes — North America's Used Motorcycle Market Booms as Dealers Face an Affordability Challenge

If you pick a used one in good condition it'll tour just fine, so I wouldn't call it an entirely bad trend.

Is a 'powersports dealer' basically just a motorcycle shop?

Japanese manufacturers keep raising prices for the North American market too, so this trend isn't something anyone can ignore.

New bike prices climbing is probably down to a mix of tariffs, material costs, and so on — I'd like to see the actual breakdown though.

They frame it as a dealer headache, but with used prices rising too, it doesn't feel like it's actually solving anything at the root.

New bikes getting too pricey and buyers shifting to used — that's now playing out the same way in both Japan and the US.