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5 in the big bike class (46 total riders)
4 lites (around 60 riders)
What's going on, they're supposed to be pretty much the best bike out there?
4 lites (around 60 riders)
What's going on, they're supposed to be pretty much the best bike out there?
Guys that can ride fast on any brand are going to pick the one that pays them back the most.
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Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Also, there's Team Butler/BTO, Nitro-Circus/Suzuki City...and the Off-Road Team.
Suzuki's still racing and I'm not gonna be surprised if they return with a Contingency & solid Am. program. They had some house-cleaning to do and it appears to be done.
Now, where are all the Yamahas in the Lites class...?
Me? I'm glad that Cunningham stayed in the saddle and finished a main in a pretty good position. As for Nicky P, what happened?
Then there's the rest of the Yamahas...?
One thing I have noticed: It's a Good Year to be a REAL privateer...on a KAWI! (Rutherford!)
its a shame for the zukes tho. theyve been trying, they get it right, and they have a great product (save the false neutrals that seem to be pretty rampant). looking back, theyve pretty much dominated the other oem's in ama racing the past decade have they not?
i will speculate here, that suzuki was once on the verge of being seen as pretty close to the great honda. in the 80s, suzuki was making a push to get on that level. two things happened...
...there very elite and dominant amateur team was killed (literally, the riders died in a wreck) and they had a couple bad years of production bikes that were just shit in the reliability dept. and theyve never fully recovered in the consumers eyes. honda on the other hand, and yamaha to a slightly lesser extent, have always been branded and seen as "reliable'. in every product they make, the reputation follows. its hard to shake, and for suzuki, they are finding out its just as hard to gain.
someone from the 80s is free to correct me where im wrong on any of this. but its just speculation on my part.
If it did, there would be no race teams.
Pit Row
not in F1...not in MotoGP....not in any form of racing. spec, production, or worx, it doesnt matter.
racing isnt about selling product or even development for that matter. there are much cheaper ways to develop products than racing. many would be very suprised to know that the r&d dept's back in japan use little if any info gathered from the race teams here.
its about brand awareness and brand loyalty. and some japanese pride, as they are racing enthusiasts as much as europeans or any other culture. but development or sales? nope.
He was handling my Suzuki box vans title that I bought from them and he has not returned any phone calls or emails since Christmas.
How long ago did you buy the box vans?
Now I am sure alot of this problem has to do with the economy and etc but you sure can't sell what you don't have. It seems to me like the suzuki dealers and yamaha dealers may be the ones hurting the most. I am a huge yamaha fan and very likely may buy a new yz450f here soon.
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