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If Yamaha sells all of their production at the new higher prices they should have raised prices a long time ago.
I think Kawasaki hits their dealers with sur charges too. They do it rather than raise the dealer and retail price.
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We aren't starting anything. How would you fix the mess this administration inherited?
Trump worshipper? I think you are taking that a bit far my man. I am far from that. Some things I like, some things are shitty.
Japs mad their economy is destroyed cause they can’t open their eyes enough to see into the future.
If this thread was a contest to see who says the absolute dumbest thing you win 🥇
no one is forcing you to buy a new motorcycle, market dictates the final sale price… in other words “speak with your wallet”!
remember the exorbitant dealer mark ups of thousands of dollars during the last administration… where were you then complaining against that administration?
I rode Friday, then went to a “no kings” protest in Philly.
Tariffs go against free market Capitalism which is why most economist have traditionally been against them. But for free trade to truly benefit all parties, the parties need to play by similar rules. Think the EU. They are very protectionist and very free trade at the same time. Depends on who they are trading with and the rules those countries play by.
There is plenty of growing evidence that the free trade movement of the 1990s and 2000s has gutted the middle class of America and grown the economic disparity between rich and poor. The job numbers don't look bad on the surface, but many of those jobs have shifted to retail and part time work with few benefits.
The other solution of Raising corporate income taxes, also just passes cost on to the consumer. It's the way business works. The thing is, in the long run, companies can only raise their prices so much before consumers start buying less. Then companies have to adjust to find ways to bring prices back down. That might mean moving production back to America to avoid tariffs, technological advancement, automation. It's an endless cycle. The short term effect of tariffs is almost always higher prices, but the long term impact could possibly be beneficial at least in some industries and markets.
Not to mention many tariffs are just used to negotiate with foreign nations and rarely last, at least at the excessively high percentages they start at. And as a result the lasting impact on prices isn't as exorbitant as first figured.
WOAH! Its not just Yamahahahaha raising prices...
Kawasuckit quietly raises their pricing and adds in the BS "supply chain" charges to it as well.
Learn for yourself:
https://www.kawasaki.com/en-us/motorcycle/kx/full-size-mx/kx-250/2026-kx250
https://www.kawasaki.com/en-us/motorcycle/kx/full-size-cross-country/kx-450x/2026-kx450x
https://www.kawasaki.com/en-us/motorcycle/kx/kx-youth-mx/kx-65/2026-kx65
https://www.kawasaki.com/en-us/motorcycle/klx/off-road/klx110r/2026-klx110r
https://www.kawasaki.com/en-us/motorcycle/klx/dual-sport/klx300/2026-klx300
If anyone needs a calculator... Good F___ing Luck finding someone on here who can use one.
I think i will stick it out with my trusty and rusty '97 ATK 605 for another year. FTW!
Anyone know if there are any significant updates planned for the 2026 YZ250 2T?
Why would that have any affect on import charges? someone has to pay. Doesn't really matter what currency it is in, does it?
I hope not 🤞🏻
All I have learned throughout this tariff debacle, is that it is going to take ALOT more pain and homelessness to convince anyone that tariffs are a stupid blanket tax and will only serve to increase prices on things. But somehow, bringing all the $5/hr jobs into America and paying people $30/hr is going to make it cheap again... SMH.
Why would they all be here? You think there is some warehouse with free storage for all the Yamahas America needs? They are shipped in installments, on a schedule. The ones that are still to be shipped will be hit with import tariffs... If you thought the dealers were storing them for free, I understand your lack of thought process on the tariffs i guess.
lmao
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The point being, the dollar has very strong buying power against the Yen. Basically anything made in Japan at Yen prices, they are making a killing selling it in the USA for US Dollars. Another way to look at it, when the Yen was very strong against the dollar, Japanese bike prices shot up, and everyone understood they had to to account for the exchange rate. Funny how they are not decreasing now that the Yen is very weak. It has been this way for 3-4 years now. Way before any tariff talk.
Should have kept your bike in the back of your truck when you went to the protest in Philly. I am sure it would have been OK amongst all those fine, peaceful protestors. 😏
Who pissed in your wheaties this morning?
I asked a question for my own curiosity based on my understanding of bike importation. I believed that the years’ production for a given country was imported in one shot and stored in a company warehouse (in this case stateside), then sent in installments from there to dealers. If that’s incorrect, I am grateful to learn something…but you don’t need to be an asshole about it.
This is funny since there is actually no increased tariff at this time. the standard tariff is in place of 10%. The 24% increase was placed on a 90 day pause started on April 5th while the countries work on an agreement. We need to let the man do his job. If Yamaha is raising prices under the flag of tariffs they are screwing everyone because they have not been charged any additional tariffs at this point and probably will not be when they Japan quits screwing us.
My favorite is watching some companies add the "tariff increase" on to the final purchase price, when in reality they pay the tariff on the import price, so any additional cost over that is just them screwing consumers. Nobody should be buying anything from any company that tacks on a "20% tariff fee" to their retail price, that's just them playing the odds and knowing most people aren't smart enough to know the difference between retail and import pricing.
10% tariff is actually a huge increase in tariff, it quadrupled overnight hence why you're starting to see consequences.
Edit: Kawasaki and Yamaha new "supply chain surcharge" ($650 on 450s) tracks pretty well with the tariff hike.
Given they're taking a 7.5% hit on import/gross price (tariff hike from 2.5% to 10%), this roughly 6% surcharge on MSRP could unsurprisingly make the customer bear the burden of this extra tax (assuming a gross price about 80-85% of MSRP).
This is just an appetizer though, by the same token, if tariff were to go back to the initially stated 25%, you could expect a $2k "supply chain surcharge".
I haven't seen that yet. Where have you seen it?
Second best bike of all time next to the YZ125 🤩
In 2015 the Canadian dollar was so bad I bought a 150SX, raced it for half of the year and sold it for a profit to someone in the US. Maybe I'll have to start doing that again.
Wanted to buy a new bike next year, decided not to wait with possible Tarrifs coming, picked this up last month.
BNG are not as good looking, better pull the trigger now, this 2025 YZ250 is sexy!!
I was thinking maybe next year's
Sounds like they updated carb and intake tract and some cdi settings. Nothing that can’t be massaged by aftermarket
If I remember correctly Digikey was doing it, as well as another larger company I saw but I’m forgetting where.
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