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They truly have made some fantastic equipment over the years and advanced the competitive portions of the sport at many points. It is hard to forget that Decoster, Carmichael, Everts and more greats have strong Suzuki legacies.
Hard to make that argument seeing as a Kawasaki is a glossed over 2009 machine that uses the same base engine architecture as the 2004 Suzuki engine both OEMS started with.
It just has a far better press standing seeing how PC makes them win a lot (although not winning that much last 6-7 years until this year)
In europe - the Kawasaki 250f hasn't been all that successful - and it could be easily argued the rmz has more success in Europe than the kx (250f class)
I'd take both the rmz or the kx as my base starting package to go racing - I see them as equal.
I wouldn't pick them over a ktm or yzf by any stretch - that's a different argument.
Not to mention Dixon's kawasaki, or bud's - might as well be called a DIXON bike - it's nothing along production lines.
I never fully understood some reviews or public "opinion" on the rmz. It's "outdated". Sure - they don't change the frame paint color every year (ktm).
And sure - the engine is/was long in the tooth (kawaski too)
But the chassis is a good chassis. Why go change that? It's argued the new one is WORSE for the avg joe.
And the plastic design WAY BACK in 2009 - was SO FAR AHEAD of it's time - the other bikes are just NOW going angular and small number plates like suzuki did. I mean what's next, no plastic?
perception drives this industry - far more than reality. If suzuki COULD/WOULD put together the budget and staff they used to - they would win. But from a dollars and sense standpoint - none of these teams make any of either.
They don't sell enough mx bikes to cover the cost of these US based race programs.
I do NOT KNOW - but I believe you pay on to a shared container for the fly away races that MXGP somewhat provides...
to get the stuff shipped.
I heard numbers all the time that seem close to one another - so must be right.
US based SX team WITHOUT rider salary but WITH team staff salary, travel, logistics, wraps, bikes, parts etc
2-4 million a year and I think that is largely contingent on how well you want to do it.
But a privateer effort that goes to all 17 rounds with an 18 wheeler - has 3 riders, the proper staff (driver, 3 mechanics, manager etc) is easily over 1 million and I think that was the old BTO team's (the BBMX hondas) price range.
I'd bet club mx is doing it for 500k or so on east coast - but how their program works isn't cut and dry.
The rider's are probably laregly responsible for most of their own side of things - and they are using the club facility "free" where as a factory team has their own tracks that is part of the budget.
How Club is accounting that I don't know. It's feasible the actual money they are "spending" is 150-200k if you don't count in a few of the other ways they are operating as expenditures.
I have helped a couple privateers - to go race all of east coast out of a sprinter required around 50k base minimum not including bike costs if I remember right.
I believe lemoine was raising like 250k-300k a year at JAB - again total guess.
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