Triumph, will they be racing at A1 2024?

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berry1973 7/30/2023 2:07pm

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El Capitan wrote:

What do those bitchin trailers sell for? Does the team own it or is it leased through an intermediary?

ML512 wrote:

They've gone up quite a bit due to material prices in the past couple of years. The trailer fully built out...no awning and no graphics on...

They've gone up quite a bit due to material prices in the past couple of years. The trailer fully built out...no awning and no graphics on it...without a tractor to pull it...gets them into the mid $700,000s now. Something like that.

With a new tractor, extended with a water box, graphics, awning, etc...you're definitely north of a million dollars. Maybe even breaking 1.2ish.

That’s big boy money territory. Definitely the reason most teams rigs are past teams or several past teams rigs.

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ML512 7/30/2023 2:13pm

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mx313 wrote:

Lars said the Honda trailer cost approx 1mill. And that was purchased 2 years ago.

I think that trailer is around four years old now or a bit more. The most recent team to acquire a new trailer was Rockstar Husky, I was told mid-700s when they were speccing it about 16 months before they even got it. Again, no graphics, awning, or tractor.

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Johnny Ringo 7/30/2023 2:27pm

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DonM wrote:

It's March and July of 2024...

mx313 wrote:

The rule is a bit weird when you can go racing in January and have to have 200 bikes sold by march. What happens if they...

The rule is a bit weird when you can go racing in January and have to have 200 bikes sold by march.

What happens if they start racing in Jan but don't sell any bikes? Do they get kicked out in march? Or fined?

Can they just presale 10 bikes to 20 different dealers and sale our units are sold but waiting on shipping. Or do they need to be delivered.

DonM wrote:

They don’t have to be sold by March they have be available to dealers by March….

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aeffertz 7/30/2023 2:43pm

7/30/2023 2:43pm Edited Date/Time 7/30/2023 2:44pm

The media literacy by some of you is shockingly horrible. Do you think they just produced the first frame and that's why we got an update? There's that leaked video of the complete bike in another thread, there's zoomed in photos of the complete bike in the frame breakdown video. They would not be rolling the bike out in this manner if it wasn't ready. It's as if a lot of you saw this and are going "Wow, they've only made a frame so far? How they gonna make A1?!" At this point, the bike is clearly finished and ready for mass production (if there isn't already a fleet of them ready to go). Do you expect the race team to first get ahold of the production bike January 1st? You make these announcements when it's said and done and the deadline is clearly being met.

They could do no teaser videos and cold drop it on us but "building hype" is a very valid marketing move for a new brand on the scene. I'm enjoying the rollout. It's just more entertainment in the meantime that would otherwise be silence. "Yeah we'll see the Triumph. We'll see it when it's time!"