SKDA landed HRC

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Man, they were the mainstay of throttle jockey forever. Anyone have any intel on the switch?IMG 8075

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Australian riders. Australian company. 

Makes sense. 

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SKDA has quality products, I run their seat covers.

What's even better is their customer service !...they immediately took care of a shipping issue for me.

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11/19/2025 6:04pm

With all the graphics companies out there nowadays are there a ton of people using Throttle Jockey nowadays? I can’t think of anyone I know who has had Throttle Jockey graphics in the last 15 years. 

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11/19/2025 6:39pm

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Teams usually land sponsors, not sponsors landing teams.

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11/19/2025 6:49pm

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Teams usually land sponsors, not sponsors landing teams.

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.

For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they landed HRC. 

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11/19/2025 6:55pm

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Teams usually land sponsors, not sponsors landing teams.

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they...

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.

For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they landed HRC. 

Who's the one paying/providing free goods?

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11/19/2025 7:11pm

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Teams usually land sponsors, not sponsors landing teams.

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they...

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.

For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they landed HRC. 

Who's the one paying/providing free goods?

I’d imagine SKDA paid out the ass to get HRC. along with sets of graphics for every bike/practice/race. I was told a well known company was going to pay around 100k plus an ungodly amount of graphics for a very small/new team, and another graphic company got them instead 

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11/19/2025 7:23pm

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Teams usually land sponsors, not sponsors landing teams.

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they...

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.

For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they landed HRC. 

Who's the one paying/providing free goods?

I understand your point, but to think Honda didn't have it's pick of whatever graphic company they want would be silly.

Who do you think had the bargaining power in this negotiation?

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11/19/2025 7:38pm
Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they...

Maybe it's that way for a large and/or outside the industry sponsor, like Progressive or Red Bull.

For an endemic sponsor like SKDA, I would say they landed HRC. 

Who's the one paying/providing free goods?

I understand your point, but to think Honda didn't have it's pick of whatever graphic company they want would be silly.Who do you think had the...

I understand your point, but to think Honda didn't have it's pick of whatever graphic company they want would be silly.

Who do you think had the bargaining power in this negotiation?

I would think HRC would be glad to take free graphics from whoever can meet their requirements and gives them the most money.

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11/19/2025 8:20pm

Gonna be funny when the bikes show up at A1 and still look like stock Honda graphics, like they always do lol. 

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11/19/2025 8:26pm
AH387 wrote:

Gonna be funny when the bikes show up at A1 and still look like stock Honda graphics, like they always do lol. 

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AH387 wrote:

Gonna be funny when the bikes show up at A1 and still look like stock Honda graphics, like they always do lol. 

So? If HRC get extra sponsorship for same looking graphics then who cares ??? 

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SKDA makes some really cool stuff and this partnership is awesome for them. 

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11/19/2025 9:36pm

Did a search but found nothing,what does SKDA stand for or mean?

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11/19/2025 10:00pm
AH387 wrote:

Gonna be funny when the bikes show up at A1 and still look like stock Honda graphics, like they always do lol. 

and thank god they do

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11/19/2025 10:14pm Edited Date/Time 11/19/2025 10:42pm
Warlock wrote:

Did a search but found nothing,what does SKDA stand for or mean?

Their 'about' page indicates it is a more corporate/mature evolution of their former 'Sikness Designs' branding from the founder's youth (the aughties), now abbreviating 'Sikness Designs Australia':
https://us.skda.com.au/skda-blog?blogPost=behind-the-brand-sam-morton

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11/20/2025 1:58am

US HRC is getting more Aussie by the day, not something I ever imagined happening!

11/20/2025 2:10am

Interestingly, saw Throttle Jockey post up something recently about working with HRC for so long. Didn't realise it was a send off.

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Australian riders. Australian company. 

Makes sense. 

Hymas and Shimoda are Aussie?

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This honestly hurts my inner childhood a little bit. The woody woodpecker, white triangle Honda oil stickers on the front fenders were pure factory Honda for me. End of an era

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Rickyisms wrote:
With all the graphics companies out there nowadays are there a ton of people using Throttle Jockey nowadays? I can’t think of anyone I know who...

With all the graphics companies out there nowadays are there a ton of people using Throttle Jockey nowadays? I can’t think of anyone I know who has had Throttle Jockey graphics in the last 15 years. 

I still use them to keep my fleet of 90”s CR”s looking good👍IMG 7787 1.jpeg?VersionId=aGtcALXgCGIMG 7786 0

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Warlock wrote:

Did a search but found nothing,what does SKDA stand for or mean?

Sticker Kits for Dollars (Australian)

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11/20/2025 5:54am

I HAVE seen really interesting designs come from SKDA but these do not represent what I have seen very well. https://us.skda.com.au/categories/shop-by-bike/honda/honda-cr-crf-models/full-graphics-kits.html?p=2

I think, it was the studio lighting and off colors that were being used. The bikes shown here look like everyone else. I hope they can be free to design as they want. 

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11/20/2025 2:14pm

what a dream come true for Sam at SKDA. Such a cool moment to see a buddy go from printing local kits in the garage to printing for Factory HRC. Already got me excited to see what is created for MXON next year

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