What do you think is the next big trend in motorcycling?

[beetle]

  Change is inevitable , embrace it .

I will not! You know that Rush song 'Red Barchetta'? That'll be me, except it will be 'Black Griso', riding the back country roads to escape the Emissions Police in their air cars. 

[oldbike54]

I will not! You know that Rush song 'Red Barchetta'? That'll be me, except it will be 'Black Griso', riding the back country roads to escape the Emissions Police in their air cars. 

 Well , some of us will hold out for sure 

 Dusty

[Chuck in Indiana]

Well , some of us will hold out for sure 

 Dusty

I'm with ya, brothers..

[krglorioso]

Being a devoted retro aficionado, I'm waiting for a Nuevo Falcone Hydro. 

Ralph

[jas67]

I will not! You know that Rush song 'Red Barchetta'? That'll be me, except it will be 'Black Griso', riding the back country roads to escape the Emissions Police in their air cars. 

 :1:

[charlie b]

I will not! You know that Rush song 'Red Barchetta'? That'll be me, except it will be 'Black Griso', riding the back country roads to escape the Emissions Police in their air cars. 

Are you related to Mad Max?  :)

[oldbike54]

Are you related to Mad Max?  :)

 Related , hell , Mark IS Mad Max 

 Dusty

[sbaker]

Bikes with training wheels because every one is so risk adverse.. !!

[pikipiki]

Harley Davidson brach out into Virtual Reality and Care homes.
The first HD biker themed care home is opened in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin 2019 to the proud anouncement there will be no daytime TV, no Opera. Residents will spent afternoons on VR tours: the big sur, route 66... when not touring zimmer frames are fitted with high riser bars. Carers wear leather pants.
The company admit they have struggled to develop their motorcycles past the technology of the 1950's but somehow they seem to have stumbled upon an effective treatment for Alzheimers.

[Tom]

     

[Cool Runnings]

Kids are buying used bikes, talked to a 30 year old (kid) today. He picked up a used Yamaha Virago for 1.5k.

[pikipiki]

Kids are buying used bikes, talked to a 30 year old (kid) today. He picked up a used Yamaha Virago for 1.5k.

was the bike also 30 years old?

 And we complain about Guzzi names:

virago/vɪˈrɑːɡəʊ,-ˈreɪɡəʊ/
noun
a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman

and if not bad enough swap an O for an A and its a not very mixed up anagram of V..GRA!

[jbell]

Where do you find the trend of abandoning edgy modern "transformer" styling?

Other than a few retros and the usual cruisers, the market is flooded with horrible origami styling.

Rocker, perhaps I should have said "beginnings of a trend".   Citing the Honda Africa Twin, no beak, some of the new Suzukis and as you mentioned an emerging retro appreciation.  As the Rock Man said, "We see what we want to see, we hear what we want to hear."

[Tom]

It's already started.  3 wheeler trikes for the geriatric set and calling them motorcycles.

[trippah]

Was glancing at what I think was a Rickman Mettisse with a dustbin fairing at a Syracuse shop the other day, will the future be like the past?  I think that the number of riders may well dwindle as (forgive the political.eco) the percentage of people with play money continues to shrink.