Where do bikes go after shootouts / magazine tests???

livehard280
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10/8/2015 11:06am Edited Date/Time 10/8/2015 7:56pm
Was wondering where the bikes go after they've been in shootouts or modified for magazine and website features like Racer X Tested? I'd assume after shootouts, they go back to the OEM's, but what about the bikes that are featured in mags and online after their modded? For example, does Jay Clark who builds BAD ASS mods for RacerX own the bikes or does RacerX, or the other mag companies, TWMX etc, keep them once he's finished with them? Just curious.

http://racerxonline.com/2015/10/07/racer-x-films-2015-yamaha-yz250fx

http://racerxonline.com/2013/12/11/racer-x-tested-2014-honda-crf450r

http://motocross.transworld.net/videos/first-impression-2016-kawasaki-k…
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10/8/2015 12:07pm
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap them.
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10/8/2015 12:25pm
kiwifan wrote:
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap...
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap them.
Where did you source this info from?
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10/8/2015 12:32pm
In the industry I work in (not moto), all the products we get for review are given to us to keep. It is poor form to later sell review product, so we mostly keep using it until its a pile of rubble or simply give it away to people who can use it. And no, don't ask, u can't have any.
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10/8/2015 12:33pm Edited Date/Time 10/8/2015 12:34pm
My garages. .. don't even think about it. .. I have a very pissed off Ryan Hughes guarding them.

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10/8/2015 12:35pm
Products might be different,
but as far as motorcycles, they don't keep them.. unless they buy them Wink

(Swap bought the 2000 or 2001? 500AF after the testing was done back in the day)
10/8/2015 12:47pm
kiwifan wrote:
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap...
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap them.
Exactly right.

In '91 my dad was a Honda UK employee.

The CR80 that was the test bike for DBR magazine, was returned to Honda UK with a burnt out/slipping clutch, Dad bought it (at what I'm sure was an absolute bargin) & put a new clutch in it before my first ever ride on it. I still have the bike, and the magazine with the test of it in.

Press bikes are returned and then sold off.

Stevie


10/8/2015 12:49pm
KMC440 wrote:
My garages. .. don't even think about it. .. I have a very pissed off Ryan Hughes guarding them.
I thought about it. Then I read your last sentence. Now I'm not thinking about it.
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To a junkyard in Denver


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I know the KTM ride day bikes go to a dealer and get sold. A dealer near me had a bunch of them last year.
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10/8/2015 2:00pm
kiwifan wrote:
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap...
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap them.
MaxPower wrote:
Where did you source this info from?
Media loan pool bikes get returned to the manufacture then are prepped to be sold. Some brands give us the option of buying our loan bikes or letting people from inside the company purchase them. Whichever bikes aren't purchased this way are then prepped as close to stock and sold in batches to dealers on a group buy. Some manufactures skip the internal sale and go straight to a dealer group by situation.

Media bikes have vins and are registered, so they aren't typically crushed or scrapped. The media departments have a budget and if they aren't able to sell the bike (it has to be scrapped or parted out) then the full retail price of that bike comes out of their budget.
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10/8/2015 7:56pm Edited Date/Time 10/8/2015 7:58pm
kiwifan wrote:
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap...
Most likely they are given back to the manufacturers who either sell them to company personnel, or put them in a shop for sale or scrap them.
MaxPower wrote:
Where did you source this info from?
I said "most likely" shesshhh

But it looks like I was pretty close to the mark.

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