5 reasons why not to buy Italian motorcycles

[John A]

https://youtu.be/MTMBKlxIXKM
This slightly goofy guy has some good points

[Bobic69]

Started watching but had to turn off. That guy is too annoying.

[berniebee]

Sheesh. Like a high school-er trying to stretch his essay to 500 words, this guy sure says very little in 13 minutes.
I fast forwarded. I'll save you watching endless footage of him riding his wannabe Yamaha supermoto around:

#5 Italian bikes are too sexy
#4 Lack of dealers
#3 Not reliable
#2 Dealers don't like to do warranty work
#1 Parts are expensive. 

Ironically, #5 seems like just the attention getting device that a 13 minute look-at-me video maker is looking for!

[LowRyter]

I can think of more than 5. 

Still, you can't beat the overall balance, feel and handling.  And the styling.  I guess there's a price for everything but if the bike doesn't feel right, handle right, I don't want it. 

[Knuckle Dragger]

What a clown!  That little blue bike that he keeps waving his gloves is East Asian, not Italian!  The Italians haven't really built dirt bikes in years.

[Blaufeld66]

#5 Italian bikes are too sexy TRUE
#4 Lack of dealers TRUE
#3 Not reliable FALSE
#2 Dealers don't like to do warranty work SOMETIMES TRUE
#1 Parts are expensive.  FALSE

[Ncdan]

Too early to watch this guy, maybe I’ll try it again later:)

[booob]

  The Italians haven't really built dirt bikes in years.

http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/

Beta https://www.betamotor.com/en/ & SWM https://www.swm-motorcycles.it/models/ as well.

[booob]

Beta https://www.betamotor.com/en/ & SWM https://www.swm-motorcycles.it/models/ as well.

Yep.  Not only that, italian rider, Cairoli, dominated the world championship until last year.

Favorite italian dirt bike by far, the Kram-it

http://www.woiweb.com/index.php/Kram-It


We lusted over these in high school, absolute monters. 

[oldbike54]

 This guy's spelling needs some work... *navagate* isn't a word 

 Dusty

[Huzo]

This guy's spelling needs some work... *navagate* isn't a word 

 Dusty

He’d fit right in here..

[Siamese]

Nah

[Canuck750]

MORON.

[oldbike54]

He’d fit right in here..

 We aren't pretending to be professional moto-journalists .

 Dusty

[Knuckle Dragger]

http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/

My bad.  I'd forgotten about Fantic.  There's prolly others too, but all similarly of a more niche nature I suspect.  Then there's SWM, which must be the closest of all to an actual "volume manufacturer" of dirties, in their near-new (ex-Cagiva) Varese factory which was kindly built for them by BMW for their abortive few years of Husqvarna ownership & manufacture.

What I was getting at was that Italy (& Spain too) once had a proud, extensive, diverse & successful dirt bike manufacturing tradition, now (all-but) long gone.  That blue thing that the narrator keeps waving his gloves at is some sort of Hodaka/Yamazuki/Sanyo/Datsun device, & not Italian at all.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

My bad.  I'd forgotten about Fantic.  There's prolly others too, but all similarly of a more niche nature I suspect.  Then there's SWM, which must be the closest of all to an actual "volume manufacturer" of dirties, in their near-new (ex-Cagiva) Varese factory which was kindly built for them by BMW for their abortive few years of Husqvarna ownership & manufacture.

What I was getting at was that Italy (& Spain too) once had a proud, extensive, diverse & successful dirt bike manufacturing tradition, now (all-but) long gone.  That blue thing that the narrator keeps waving his gloves at is some sort of Hodaka/Yamazuki/Sanyo/Datsun device, & not Italian at all.

Beta https://www.betamotor.com/en/ & SWM https://www.swm-motorcycles.it/models/ as well.