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I heard from a guy at work that heard from his buddy's dad who works at a shop that Kawasaki is waiting for this thread to reach 69 pages before they actually let us see the bike.

55 pages of speculation and no results. I'm guessing this is what a trump email trail looks like.

If i was Kawasaki or Monster I would want money back from the punk ass little quitter.

Wasn’t there an incident in that class one year where the winner got his bike protested so that rider protested the second place finisher because they knew they were caught but also knew second were also cheating and it ended up being like the top 7 or 8 riders got there bikes torn down in a chain of protests and they all had cheater parts so the win defaulted to the ninth place finisher?

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.

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.

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...

My apologies for not being more well versed on this, but are the lower trucking wages related to the apparent influx of foreign truck drivers that I've noticed? Meaning, are they driving for less money?

Yamaha has been raising prices nearly every year…2017 450 was $8699 to $9,999 in 2024. I missed the letters each year.

Cmon…You bros never made a few post after one too many beers? I know I have…and also taken them down the next morning🤪 we are dirt bike guys…..very high potential to be assholes at any given time….

Every time I see a new video of him he seems drunk. If you want to really figure out where his disdain for Steve started, I personally think it was after his last appearance on Pulp. If I'm remembering correctly, he got so wasted on the show he started to make a fool of himself on the air and afterwards he threw up all over himself and the driver's car when they were taking him to his hotel. I don't think he has been on the show since and a lot of sly remarks from GL started slowly coming out...

I’m not full on dark nation I listen to his show occasionally but he definitely seems like a genuinely good dude and puts his heart and soul into the sport and it’s very admirable what he has done to make his way up and how he puts up with Steve’s shit. If it’s true vital is letting him go I feel bad for the guy, it’s a terrible feeling when you leave your comfort zone of a stable job for something else and it doesn’t work out. Hope he doesn’t go back to digging ditches in bumfuck Texas

Yep. Basically the same engine. Both owned by VW Group. The R8 is supposed to be more refined and comfortable for a daily driver if needed. The Lambo is supposed to be raw. If that was me I'd buy a 911 Turbo. Better handling, more comfortable, timeless beauty, and you can haul 4 people in it.