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Only Hoosier produces motorcycle tires here. All those other brands are producing car and truck tires at those plants.
Do you know which pod?
U.S. Market Combines have always and will continue to be made at Harvester works in Moline… the only thing they’ve offshored lately is some cab production.
Maybe Dunlop is waiting for the tax perks for reopening up a manufacturing plant in the US under the new administration.
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Renen gear is proudly made in the USA and they are competitive with all the top of the line gear from the big brands.
It’s not like they are an out of thin air start up, they had a solid infrastructure in place.
Go check out Origin apparel/jeans. It can be done.
Because companies make decisions to make more money. Just cause they’re production cost drops doesn’t mean they have to pass it on to the customer.
Yes but if they had to scale to the production of fly for example that means way more labor force/c suite and warehousing costs. I think these boutique made in USA brands can exist at a niche level because they aren’t trying to scale to massive levels increasing there overhead costs.
If the wealth distribution stayed how it was 50-60 years ago people could afford those prices. Wages would be keeping up with inflation. Housing has quadrupled in cost and the average American wage hasn’t even doubled. The middle class is disappearing and the wealthy (top 20%) can’t support the economy. There’s no going back. It will continue to get worse.
Try Forces U.S. production....
Think the price of a Dunlap is going to go down becuase they are paying $1 to some virtual slave in a third world shit hole? Hell no
The "American wage" (hourly production wage) hasn't risen dramatically over product prices in the last several decades. Executive compensation has.
Most Americans believe that the labor of everyone else is basically worthless and nearly no one has a job that is worthy of a living wage. They also believe that they are one small break away from being one of the 1% financially, and right or wrong they don't want to risk having those 1% contribute more because they could be bajillionaires next month.
It's like we need 11 million people or so that don't mind working for peanuts hmmmmm...where would we get them from?
This is a bad take
I dont, it was about a year ago, Ill go back and try to find it. Funny enough now that I mention it… they had leib on the pulp show today and he talked a little bit about how he produces everything in the us. Weird how that happens. This time though he mostly talked about the replica jerseys hes doing with feld. Ill try to find the old show tho.
There are no coincidences
That's why companies setup factories in third world and developing countries.
I believe this is the one. Lots of in depth info here, great listen. He really goes in depth on what its like getting into manufacturing and doing it in the us and the disadvantages and also some big advantages to that. I wish more guys would talk about the behind the scenes stuff more like michael does, he has near unlimited info that hell share when he gets going.
Then funny enough on the pulp show today he had some more interesting things to say, his part starts at 2:59:42. Today he went in depth about how they created a replica jersey market with feld which did not exist previously which is going to give the riders and especially privateers more money that they were not earning before because nobody was selling rider jerseys. For a privateer this will definitely be a nice addition. He talked about how they needed to get licensing from the sponsors which was tough, but it gives them advertising on the jerseys for as long as the jerseys exist. This whole market did not exist so its extra money being brought into the sport which is awesome.
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I am curious about the manufacturing side of custom gear as I see no reason to pay $300 for the right to advertise a corporate commodity.
I’ll also do my keep an open mind when listening about the replica jersey stuff.
I currently see it as another cash grab by gatekeeper/middleman Feld. Somewhere in the ballpark of the GoPro/360Fly ordeal.
I also have sticking points when it comes a man paying to wear another man’s name on his back.
$40-50 billion in annual sales and you don’t think they’ve done the calculations? It’s a Japanese company. I’m sure they’ll find ways to mitigate the cost of tariffs. Some will come from a reduction in the cost the factory charges their US based distribution, the rest will be passed onto the consumer.
While I agree with you I see no reason to purchase a replica jersey or where a major sports athletes jersey plenty of fans do and good for them. Doesn’t bother me any and it’s good to have people with different tastes.
Yea same I wouldnt wear one, but he brought up a good point about how plenty of people will buy the jerseys to get them signed in the pits and hang them up on their wall. I would do that and I’m sure a lot more ppl would as well. Plus theyre creating retro jerseys like bradshaw or bailey with the old sponsors and everything and getting one of those signed would be badass. I think its a pretty cool idea and its adding new dollars for something that previously didnt exist. Plus think of a guy like stank dog that had tons of fans at every race and is showing up in a pickup truck. If he can earn a few thousand extra dollars by people buying his jersey I think thats awesome.
Its all rather simple.
If you are a U.S. company taking all the benefits of living/business in the U.S. then move all your production to some third world country = Penalized/Tariff/etc.
Just like the rest of the world does it.
Personally I call it treasonous but still.
It's not treasonous for Dunlop, they are owned by Sumitomo, a Japanese company.
It is if production was just in the U.S.A. and now it's not...
Yep, moving it to Mexico
If we want to support American made companies we all need to be wearing Scott goggles, Renen or Canvas gear, running Hoosier tires and Yoshimura exhaust. What are some other American made companies?
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Bingo…
They work great for a few races, then they fall off hard. I had a local seller of Hoosier so I use them , but now that he doesn't carry Hoosier, I am back to Dunlop.
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