American Dirt Bike manufacturers

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 11:41am
Are there any that make motocross bikes?
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Hodaka. assembled in Bend Oregon.

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Skinnly 6/29/2011 9:15am
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Pretty sure Avenger bought ATK and purchased Connondales old stock .
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motogrady 6/29/2011 9:16am
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Skinnly wrote:
Pretty sure Avenger bought ATK and purchased Connondales old stock .
What's an Avenger?
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reded 6/29/2011 9:18am
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You guys are leaving out the ever popular Rokon!
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IWreckALot 6/29/2011 9:19am
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I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
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Skinnly 6/29/2011 9:23am
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ADB was a brand too.Ameican Dirt Bike.
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Sondy132001 6/29/2011 9:34am
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IWreckALot wrote:
I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like they bit off more than they could chew and dropped the program, Dave was pretty bummed, he thought they had a good idea/product. This was about 4-5 years ago now.

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APLMAN99 6/29/2011 9:37am
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IWreckALot wrote:
I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
Sondy132001 wrote:
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like...
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like they bit off more than they could chew and dropped the program, Dave was pretty bummed, he thought they had a good idea/product. This was about 4-5 years ago now.

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Wasn't that Harley/Buell?
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motogrady 6/29/2011 9:42am
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IWreckALot wrote:
I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
They tried too much too quick.

Too smart for their own good.

By the time they got them sorted out they were still way heavy, I don't think they ever ran a National, they just pulled the plug
like HD did with Eric Buell.
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motogrady 6/29/2011 9:44am
6/29/2011 9:44am Edited Date/Time 6/29/2011 9:46am
IWreckALot wrote:
I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
Sondy132001 wrote:
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like...
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like they bit off more than they could chew and dropped the program, Dave was pretty bummed, he thought they had a good idea/product. This was about 4-5 years ago now.

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APLMAN99 wrote:
Wasn't that Harley/Buell?
Yeah, same deal there.

Buell's on his way back, he's got a 1 liter racer out there, rumor has him making his own stuff this time.
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Sondy132001 6/29/2011 9:45am
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IWreckALot wrote:
I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
Sondy132001 wrote:
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like...
I believe they hired Dave O a few years ago, he was going to work on the mx side, but then I think they felt like they bit off more than they could chew and dropped the program, Dave was pretty bummed, he thought they had a good idea/product. This was about 4-5 years ago now.

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APLMAN99 wrote:
Wasn't that Harley/Buell?
Oh yeah it was Buell, you're right, but I think Dave might have been at cannondale too haha I'll ask him

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Mini Elsinore 6/29/2011 10:20am
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IWreckALot wrote:
I had never heard of Cannondale making a dirt bike until the other day. Where did the production turn into a flop?
Production turned to a flop on day one. Insufficient funding of the scooter project caused a cannibalization of revenues from the core bicycle line. Now, this scenario would never repeat itself with a pipe builder trying to bust into the energy drink biz----because we all know that is just good business savvy.......

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