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I’ve noticed that all fuel injected 2 strokes don’t sound right since they first came out. It’s like there’s a rag stuffed in the airbox and it can’t breath. Carson Brown recently posted a video of him riding a bike that came fuel injected, but had a carb conversion kit put on it. I think it was a KTM 150 and it sounded amazing. Very barky and crisp. I believe these conversion kits are for sale. I hope I’m wrong, but this new KX327 sounds like a stifled piece of junk.

I think people confuse Capitalism with our actual Laissez Faire based system of economics and government. I won't paste the AI slop summarized bullet points on this. The wiki does it better. See here if interested: Laissez-faire - Wikipedia

I don't follow you. Sorry. Competition is good, but anything to insure competition is bad? Plenty of history of unregulated capitalism being pretty harmful.

Capitalism without adequate competition isn't real capitalism. Regulation that creates too many barriers to entry isn't real capitalism either. Our government is full of people pretending to be for capitalism. But really are just for whatever makes their investments the most profitable. It's another era of crony capitalism.

Yep. Insanity. We need a teddy trust busting President that will promote actually competitive markets in this country.

I don't know much. But I know enough to recognize there is some absolute fuckery happening with gas and diesel prices right now. Some people are going to be way better off when/if this all settles. And it's mostly not going to be any off us.

We sponsor a lot of teams and riders (about 70 total pro riders this year). That's a significant investment - about 150 sets of triple clamps and bar mounts, which has a retail value of over $170k. The teams and riders go racing, and they give us access to a shared folder if images from the races that we can use to promote our product, the team, etc. But with these changes, the teams will now have to pay $500 per race, per sponsor, per photographer(!), to give this same access. That's $15,500 each sponsor per photographer for the whole...