Backfire BXF 450

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6/17/2010 12:40pm
Suns_PSD wrote:
American made 450 Motocross bikes here. They don't look bad I have to say.

http://www.ushighland.com/
And I thought I couldn't see?

Those bikes look weird dude! It's actually hard to tell due to low quality pics on the site.
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6/17/2010 12:45pm
Suns_PSD wrote:
American made 450 Motocross bikes here. They don't look bad I have to say.

http://www.ushighland.com/
They already have a 350! KTM got the idea from them! Laughing
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6/17/2010 6:24pm
wait, so you think that someone who drops 5 grand on a POS bike will run back to the sport when his bike grenades 3 months...
wait, so you think that someone who drops 5 grand on a POS bike will run back to the sport when his bike grenades 3 months into owning it?
mop wrote:
uh.....well, yeah! When I started riding, I was so hooked, I would do anything to keep doing it. That was the point I was trying to...
uh.....well, yeah! When I started riding, I was so hooked, I would do anything to keep doing it. That was the point I was trying to make. The situation you wrote is pretty bad, I know, but a kid doesn't think about it like an adult. If I were a parent that experienced that, I would never do it again, but a kid just knows he had fun and will keep bugging his dad to keep it going.
Along the lines of what you just said, think about this: modern 4 stroke mxers require alot of know how and money to participate in this sport. Let's say a total novice to the sport buys a new CRF250 for his beginner kid. He immediately crashes, bends the bars and breaks the lever. He goes to the shop and learns that new bars (Renthal stock) cost $100! and the lever is $10, whatever. Then he keeps riding, never reads the manual or talks to anyone for advice. Soon he runs dirt thru the airfilter (that he never cleaned) or just never changes the oil, and the bike blows up (probably longer than 3 months cuz it's a Japanese bike). Now he has a $7000.00 POS! This sport is super expensive! But we keep doing it because we are stupid and it is alot of fun!
the scenario you mentioned, they would never ride again. Just like someone who buys a chinese bike and watches it fall apart every ride. Or worse...
the scenario you mentioned, they would never ride again. Just like someone who buys a chinese bike and watches it fall apart every ride. Or worse, someone buys a chinese bike and it breaks in half causing serious injury. Either way they would be completely over the sport
So do you see these bikes as something that is bad for the sport? Kind of like a new burger joint making really bad tasting hamburgers that would sour first time consumers on fast food? That is an interesting way of looking at it....I just felt that anything that would bring new consumers into our sport that otherwise would not be there, is probably a good thing....anyone that really knows mx will laugh at these bikes, but if it is this or never riding???
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6/17/2010 6:53pm
Marketing junky motocross bikes with high powered 450cc engines to beginners to help the sport grow, what could go wrong?

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6/17/2010 7:15pm
Hut wrote:
Marketing junky motocross bikes with high powered 450cc engines to beginners to help the sport grow, what could go wrong?
HAHAHA!! Ok, you win! I stand corrected.
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6/17/2010 7:20pm Edited Date/Time 6/17/2010 7:21pm
I'm not trying to win anything I just hate to see a day when Walmart sells dirtbikes to the masses. lol
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6/17/2010 7:39pm
ATKpilot99 wrote:
Saw this in the Chinese forum on Thumpertalk... Thought they were talking about a bike backfiring , lol .

Used to be a Swedish company, but I think they totally failed? They tried to market that V-Twin 950 monster but people wasn't interested. Saw that they now produce single cylinder bikes, I hope they succeed, but I'm a bit skeptical...
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6/17/2010 10:21pm
Suns_PSD wrote:
American made 450 Motocross bikes here. They don't look bad I have to say.

http://www.ushighland.com/
And they make a 350 too. Some KTM competition!

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