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As for the post about ending up being at War with them - well, just like with the Russians , the World would not survive such a thing, no matter how powerful one's own Military is. It's all lose lose, boys and girls."
Exactly correct! We can't compete with their labor and stealing. They have stated they want to rival or surpass us economically and militarily by 2050. So what can we do? Simple! Don't buy their stuff. Why should we fund their military expansion.
You will end up spending more on repairs in a couple of years than you save on the purchase price of these bikes most likely anyway.
The Shop
Well, even if we go tit for tat, they still have a tremendous advantage.
No unions.
Nothing as far as safety requirements for workers compared to us.
Peanut wages.
Almost free electricity if you do business anywhere near that big ass yellow river dam.
Nothing as far as EPA regs.
They have already went out and bought most of the mass producing equipment, and have people working them.
When's the last time anyone heard of America making a loom or steel mill?
Patents, licenses, the USA is strangled with them. China, wgaf.
Sure, Social Security and all that stuff is a very good thing. But, how can we expect to even break even dealing with those over there?
Oh, I forgot. The insurance companies don't have their hand in almost everything the do either.
The Lillingtons
The Augur's Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzXwfCTM6s
As far as dirtbikes go though, I would stay the hell away from them. This is something your life can rely on after all.
The problem with reverse engineering is that I feel that they copy something without having a fucking clue of the why and how. Sometimes there are minute details that if missed can have catastrophic consequences.
Here's an example from personal experience:
I bought one of those bearing aluminum throttle tubes that was clearly a copycat of the pro taper ones. Where you insert cable end to the throttle cam, the omitted one simple milling operation that would have taken the lathe and extra 5 seconds. Basically the cable was sitting against a sharp edge and over time it got cut. Luckily it cut after landing a big jump instead of on the face of it. Now you tell me if endoing over a 90ft jump is worth saving that 20 bucks.
Sure, mechanical failure happen on NASA flight sometimes, but this was something that was completely and very easily preventable by the engineer having understanding of how the part works instead of blindly copying something and going "eh, looks close enough"
My 2 cents...
Pit Row
James E 05/24/2018
The features on the FSE and TSE far and away beat the Japanese offerings in the play/trail category! Id put it up against anything from the Big 4 off road under 450cc and against the Euro 250 EXC/TE or XC/W style bikes. Against a XC/F it would get spanked in anything open and on weight.
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