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I going to repeat this again because I just noticed that someone has been deleting some of my posts revealing how the premise of the US tariffs are a complete lie and very dangerous. The data I cite are easily verifiable and it's disgusting that someone would go as far as censuring this information. Japan has absolutely NO tariffs whatsoever.. NOTHING!.. on US vehicles, while in contrast the US has had tariffs on Japanese vehicles imported into the US for some time. The US has been imposing the following tariffs on Japanese vehicles; 2.5% on Japanese passenger vehicles 25% on...

Unfortunately too many are easily riled up at the cries of "foreign countries have been abusing us for too long". It's always been an efficient mechanism pretty much anywhere in the world. So they won't care it's based on lies, they won't care that the US are not trustworthy anymore, that US standing is in tatters, they won't care that countries try to forge alliances for defence or trade without them. Because they think other countries have been abusing them for years and they don't need them anymore. They will feel the pain just like everyone and unfortunately it will...

I would much rather be out riding my bike or tinkering in the garage than posting about US government policy on a dirt bike forum, but this topic is so incredibly huge and I still see a few Vital members who think that the end result is maybe they may have to pay a few hundred dollars more for their next new dirt bike or that a little pain now will be well worth the future outcome. Nothing could be further from the truth. The pain is going to get much bigger real fast and effect a lot of people’s...

Hoping for something more like Seattle. Soft, rutted and technical but still race-able.

It is not a plus. Many of our sales come from people who just bought a new bike. We do have sales from people upgrading, but once they've upgraded, they're set. If they buy new bikes less frequently because of higher costs, then there are less bikes out there to upgrade and therefore fewer sales. We now see far fewer sales to countries that have imposed retaliatory tariffs. But Xtrig (a foreign competitor) does not have to deal with those tariffs, so they'll see more sales, which certainly isn't beneficial to an us, an American company. Further, all of our...

A major piece most ppl are overlooking is our dysfunctional politics are eroding trust in the American economy and system. Why would anyone move an entire manufacturing and supply chain to the US if the tarriffs might just be taken off again next month? Like has been happening for the last few months. On top of that why would anyone do that when in 4 years it could all swing back in the opposite direction. There is 0 reason to trust that this will last 6 months let alone 6 years. With the bipartisan chips act we had tsmc semiconductors...

It's odd so many of you are OK to pay 20% more for a bike in order to "protect" the non existent American competition (there are no American dirt bikes). Why? It's not like some new American dirt bike company will form because of this... You can maybe argue for tariffs on other products, but how can you possibly argue for this? What does it accomplish? This tarriff hurts everyone, including us (an American company, making parts in America, from American materials) as people have less money for aftermarket parts. We're already hurting because of material tariffs (and yes, we...

A huge point you are missing is that what is happening in the US, is happening in EVERY developed country. Robotic automation, AI and other technology results in less need for human manpower or brainpower. For the little manpower still needed, and to some extent the brainpower, to maximize profits, private companies are outsourcing that to countries that have much lower labor costs and where people are willing to work long hours in poor conditions. It has long been clear this was coming and the only way to stop it would be to throw away our computers and cease all...

Flame away but I still wouldn’t trust Jlaw as far as I could throw him. His constant ramblings and videos on IG just scream Tweaker. I can’t figure out for the life of me why the whole industry has been whoring themselves out to him for the past few years.

JLaw JLawing

35 year old dude making a go fund me for a bike.. how about get a job and pay for it like the rest of the working class.

I think it's becoming clearer that Haiden is a much better outdoors rider. He makes a lot of mistakes in SX and is just not smooth enough. While he has the speed his style is not made for the indoors. Cole Davies is already a better SX rider in terms of technique and style and is going to start beating Deegan regularly from now on.

I’m not wholly invested in this scenario, but good lord this dude’s grammar hurts my feelings.

I want to know how much he's paying profeshenal125 to write his press releases

90s moto is so fucking back

Any truth to the rumor he was bluelighted by JS7? IYKYK 😁