I personally say absolutely not, I'm not an industry mogul ; however being the average joe thats the target demographic - I would never buy a bike because it's whats been winning. The same goes for my favorite rider, I wouldn't go buy it just because thats what he's on that season. Maybe its just me.
I thought I heard suzukis sales were in the toilet when RC was dominating? Anyway, what brought me to make this post was listening to the latest pulpmx show where they were talking about how great a hire Reed would be a RB KTM and how much attention he would bring to ktm. Perhaps they were looking at it from a sponsorship interest point of view rather than selling bikes. Thoughts?