The Mayor of Ningbo on a Harley??

Milwaukee Mayor, Tom Barrett, wants to do business in China.

The advice he received to open up the Chinese market was to get Ningbo, www.ningbo.com  an auto manufacturing hub south of Shanghai to import large engine motorcycles. Uh, why?

Because Harley-Davidsons www.harley-davidsons.com are made in Milwaukee AND they might be able to attract Chinese money to Wisconsin’s struggling small manufacturers. 

China has, are you ready for this, about half of the world’s motorcycles!

Can they afford the hogs? I’ll save that for a future blog.

Imagine how cool it would be to have the mayor of Ningbo on a Harley. Talk about cachet?

Even Milwaukee has their sights on China.

Do you?