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8/9/2010 11:20am
8/9/2010 11:20am
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10/28/2015 11:28am
From a privateer to a satellite team and finally a factory bike, What range of money do you think those bikes cost, I m guessing the suspension is the biggest cost.even for some privateers who have the aftermarket A-kits, So $8 grand for a bike (privateer) and some,mods, then satellite team bikes bike and more serious mods, then tricked out bikes. Opinions ? I m guessing 10 grand to 100 grand Am i even close? From say a traveling privateers bike to a bike like Dungeys, pro circuit and geico included, one dude from geico said they had like 40grand wrapped up in their 450 s.
The Shop
But I don't believe that's $100k on a particular bike. There just isn't that much there to make up that much money. And that was on 250 two-strokes by the way. That has to include the 8 to 12 cranks tested, all the piston configurations, cylinder porting, gearing changes in the tranny, special coating treatments for all the engine internals, all the suspension valving that is tried and thrown out, not to mention all the variations they use during the week, special off-set steering head bearing races and stuff like that. I could easily see tieing up $100k in materials and labor over a year for one particular bike, especially when considering the parts that have been thrown out during the testing process.
I could be wrong though. If there were $100k worth of parts say.... Shorty's factory CR250 two-stroke, I wonder how much money they've thrown away in parts killed during the testing process?
JGRMX continues to expand and they now have a serious amateur support program that with both Cooper Webb and Matt Bisceglia pitting out of their rig. On top of that, they offer some very cool products and services. Not sure when or even if these carbon wheels will be available but they sure are cool.
MXA did a feature on Mitch's $200,000.00 250F's a few months back.
Pit Row
I have often wondered how people could say bikes cost around 200k etc but i truly have to think they mean a lot of that money is R&D dollars....if they took the R&D out of the equation and gave us a price on the hard parts then that would be an interesting figure i think...
http://www.superx.com.au/super-x-tv/ByDate/Behind-the-scenes---Chad-Ree…
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