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Ping,
I'm loving your Twisted Development 2020 KTM 350 SX-F build but as always these builds are often out of reach for most consumers ($$$). With that said, I would think someone with your connections could bridge the gap by carving out a niche and creating groupon style bike builds or selling groupon parts or gear sets. Can you provide the dollar amounts of what your 350 modifications would cost for us guys off the street??
Decal Works: $
Twisted Development: $
Mika: $
Works Connection: $
Hinson: $
Factory Chassis Parts: $
Yoshimura: $
JBI: $
Motoseat: $
Dunlop: $
Total:
Add all this up and it's megabucks. But what if you combined groups of 10+ guys and sold the whole package at a decent discount? The vendors would offer wholesale pricing to you, and then a markup could be made to cover your cost of testing and creating/managing the online platform. The volume might not be there for full bike builds but if you took each manufacturer's new bike and put together a "vital mx" build package for each bike that you put through your tests, there might be something there to work with. You would essentially be branding your bike build packages. If not bike builds, then you could definitely make this work with parts and gear sales. For example, "25% off for this Yosh pipe and Mika metals bars/sprocket for a group of 10 or more". All it would take is an e-commerce platform to be setup to take the orders and the manufacturers would drop ship the parts once all orders were fulfilled. Probably too much work for a moto guy but there's definitely something there for anyone with connections who can build a groupon style e-commerce platform for moto.
Regardless, I'm curious to see the total cost of your 350 build:
https://www.vitalmx.com/features/Race-Shop-Build-Twisted-Development-20…
I'm loving your Twisted Development 2020 KTM 350 SX-F build but as always these builds are often out of reach for most consumers ($$$). With that said, I would think someone with your connections could bridge the gap by carving out a niche and creating groupon style bike builds or selling groupon parts or gear sets. Can you provide the dollar amounts of what your 350 modifications would cost for us guys off the street??
Decal Works: $
Twisted Development: $
Mika: $
Works Connection: $
Hinson: $
Factory Chassis Parts: $
Yoshimura: $
JBI: $
Motoseat: $
Dunlop: $
Total:
Add all this up and it's megabucks. But what if you combined groups of 10+ guys and sold the whole package at a decent discount? The vendors would offer wholesale pricing to you, and then a markup could be made to cover your cost of testing and creating/managing the online platform. The volume might not be there for full bike builds but if you took each manufacturer's new bike and put together a "vital mx" build package for each bike that you put through your tests, there might be something there to work with. You would essentially be branding your bike build packages. If not bike builds, then you could definitely make this work with parts and gear sales. For example, "25% off for this Yosh pipe and Mika metals bars/sprocket for a group of 10 or more". All it would take is an e-commerce platform to be setup to take the orders and the manufacturers would drop ship the parts once all orders were fulfilled. Probably too much work for a moto guy but there's definitely something there for anyone with connections who can build a groupon style e-commerce platform for moto.
Regardless, I'm curious to see the total cost of your 350 build:
https://www.vitalmx.com/features/Race-Shop-Build-Twisted-Development-20…
Post a reply to: Hey Ping, "Groupon" bike builds, parts, or gear sets??