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My constructive comments for future product release: make the product color coded according to the brand color with the right slack measurements for each brand.
They'd wear this deep ass groove into it
(I know not what this is, made me think of it)
Meanwhile, a guy makes a product that fills a void, hopes to make a profit, add maybe a little money to the industry.
“Why the fuck would I buy that?! I could have made it.”
Yeah, but you didn’t.
For loving moto as much as many claim, some of you have no issue tearing it to shreds at every single opportunity.
How many of these are you planning to purchase?
Oh, and it’s made by kids.
“All our Taco Moto Co. 3D printed products are engineered and produced by 14 year old Brady and Kaden and 13 year old Elijah.
“Our partnership with these clever and innovative kids gives them fantastic exposure and experience with business, creativity, design and fabrication and hopefully will give them a leg up with practicing these skills at such a young age and a real boost to their self confidence and optimism to pursue technical careers if they choose to go that route.”
Good for them, I will purchase one for my bike.
For me that product would cost over $1k to create. As I don’t have a 3D printer. I would assume I’m in the majority.
People ask me why my cable guide sets cost $30 when they’re “just a piece of plastic”, here’s why. For each order I have to go in and edit the part to have whatever text the customer desires, possibly change some dimensions around if necessary. Then, as you know, it gets run through the slicing software and sent to the printer. From there, the print for a full cable guide set takes about 2 hours, I can go faster but print quality suffers. Now, once all the parts are done, I have to do a little bit of clean up and package them for shipment.
All said and done, I’ve probably spent about 20-30 min hands on time as well as two hours of print time to create the parts, plus another $3-$5 for shipping depending on sizing. That leaves me about $25 profit, of which a bit goes to my websites host site on a monthly basis and material costs. That’s also not taking into account all of the failed prints and learning curve it took getting a material and design dialed in, so that has to be considered as well because it’s very valuable.
People don’t think about what it takes to create even a basic part, and if mine weren’t somewhat of a passion project it wouldn’t even be worth the time. The fact that these kids have gotten something like this going and started out with a simple yet clever product is great, we should be encouraging everything they’re doing not undermining it.
Pit Row
Looks like a great product, but not $30+ to my door
Gosh that’s a lot of money to check your chain. Maybe I should mass produce my homemade chain straightness checker dealy-whopper.
For chain height, just mill out a piece with the low end being the minimum chain height and the longer side be the max chain height. Before that I just used calipers.
I know 6 year olds who have enough tooth fairy money to not notice that purchase...
You didn’t even impress the chics for 5 minutes with those drinks
Sells cool stuff and does Baja tours among other things. Neat chain gadget too
Taco Moto Co
I remember...years ago...at Lockheed (NOT Lockheed-Martin!) when we talked about letting the machines do the work without ANYONE watching them...like it was a big deal...back then SOMEONE had to watch the machines make every part and be ready to shut it down if something went wrong.
A few years later the term Lights Out Manufacturing became a thing.
Technology is awesome.
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