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He posted they wanted him to attend a dealer thing in Vegas , he told them prior he would not attend and they dropped him (was just reading this on Facetube)
What is TBT Racing?
TBT is a suspension and motor tuning company founded out of Redmond, WA in 1991. They have had franchises I think for about 20 years now.
Monkeybutt167 is correct, they (TBT) have a required annual summit required for franchisees that Highland chose not to attend so they were dropped. It is not fair to the rest of the TBT franchises and owners.
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You should all be using Evo anyways.
Another company that sells the name? No thanks.
Bit of a difference between a race weekend and once in a lifetime military graduation.
Most people I know who hide behind their family just don't have the balls to say they don't want to go
Can you guys help me understand why a franchise model was used for a suspension shop? Never understood this.
And why is a suspension company spending a bunch of money for a Vegas boondoggle with motivational speakers?
What the fuck am I missing about the suspension tuning business?
That it takes one hour and $100 in parts to charge you $1500 for a revalve.
Don't forget the fork stickers.
The benefit would be the data collected and shared within a franchise, getting the customer happy on the first try.
If you're just starting out on your own, you're making educated guesses for a wide range of different bikes and riders.
Between the trophy truck incident and the suing shops for putting KYB internals in WP tubes its about time for some new Travis drama.
Was anyone else’s TBT setting softer than shit
Travis is a really good dude and has personally helped me tremendously through concussion issues. He always gets the set up spot on with my bikes. I truly couldn’t be happier with TBT.
Race Tech and, I believe, Factory Connection do the same thing.
Go to their "school" (attend a bunch of seminars usually), learn their ways, their suspension philosophies and tuning techniques (or whatever) and your " diploma" is you get to open a Race Tech, a Factory Connection, or a TBT Franchise shop, basically. The "Brand Name" gives your shop credibility, theoretically.
Then be their indentured servant, basically.
To my knowledge Factory Connection does not franchise they own their three locations! Race Tech and Paul theede that's a whole other story LOL
Factory Connection owns all of their locations. New Hampshire HQ, Oklahoma, Oregon, Florida,, Pennsylvania, and California.
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I always chose suspension tuners because they were highly recommended and purported to know what they’re doing. Travis being one of them. He did a fantastic job on my bikes and went out of his way to spend time with me at Pala.
Anyway, there is absolutely no reason why a suspension franchise company should be demanding that their franchise owners congregate in Vegas to go jerk each other off and be subject to some fucktard motivational speaker. The last time a speaker motivated a business owner is never.
Sounds to me like Travis is far better off without these morons at TBT racing.
I thought Travis was the owner of TBT? So he is better off without the ones that didn’t attend?
Is early but none of that made any sense to me LOL
That was my understanding.. Tuning By Travis
Owner/founder.
Once you add up the cost of replacing shims (if its a good shop), seals, piston bands, any worn coatings, oils, and the labor that $1500 ain't much. It's the shops that make their own parts you need to watch for, usually its cheap pot metal and manufactured with poor tolerance in China. They try to upsell you on the parts for "performance" but it's really just about turning a profit. Kind of like the ones who sell a bigger piston, all it does is require a stiffer shim stack,... and force you to buy their piston bands moving forward at every service.
Neither Race Tech or FC franchise. RT has dealers and FC owns all their locations, both very different then purchasing and operating a franchise.
I know nothing about either side, but Franchise agreements are generally very clear when it comes to meetings/trainings etc. The guy that chose to go to a race instead of attending a mandatory meeting likely deserves to lose the ability to represent the brand.
Wasn't he representing the brand at the race meeting?
Race meeting? Nothing was said about that. It's no different than your boss/company having a meeting or training session. It's not optional
I can understand there being a face to face class to go over all of the new year updates.
Race Tech has had a franchise locations for many many years. Back when I had a suspension shop it first came out and I talked to them about it.
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