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I believe Triumph may be in a prime position for stealing market share that PMG may leave on the table, reason being is their money is not made with dirtbikes so they would be able to leverage the cost of their manufacturing with the unit price opposite of what PMG has done. Their bread and butter is not tied to their dirt sales. Similar to the Japanese model, Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha are mass producers of other products that supplement their off-road manufacturing. PMG is a dirt first orginization who had larger visions without the capital to get there...

I was involved with the state of Pennsylvania's DCNR in hopes to promote and establish more dirt bike trails. It was fruitless. I sent Emails, letters, DMs, etc. to countless industry insiders, racing organizations, the AMA, manufacturers of bikes and parts, magazines, everybody connected to the sport I could think of to give me examples of the positive economic impact, health benefits. positive influence, etc. of dirt bikes and I only received one reply - from the Coombs family - nobody else. Government officials in my state in charge of outdoor recreation literally have no idea of the positive impact...

with 6500 staff, that averages just over 6K each, not hard to get that liabilty with owed holiday pay and any redundancy clauses,

Similar to the evolution of sport bikes and, as Joey pointed out, many parallels to mountain bikes. Also consider the evolution of muscle cars and Jeeps/utility vehicles. Jeeps were designed to be cheap utility vehicles to bash off road. Now they are high end, overpriced monstrosities that are too expensive to risk damaging off road. Muscle cars started as cheap, quick, fun cars aimed at the 16-24 crowd. Now they are so overblown and overpriced that you only see gray hair in them. We can all recall the days in the 80's and early 90's when a GSXR-750 was $3500...