Wildguzzi.com
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: John A on March 02, 2020, 08:38:20 AM
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https://youtu.be/MTMBKlxIXKM
This slightly goofy guy has some good points
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Started watching but had to turn off. That guy is too annoying.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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#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
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Too early to watch this guy, maybe I’ll try it again later:)
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The Italians haven't really built dirt bikes in years.
http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/ (http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/)
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http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/ (http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/)
Beta https://www.betamotor.com/en/ & SWM https://www.swm-motorcycles.it/models/ as well.
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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 (http://www.woiweb.com/index.php/Kram-It)
(https://www.bikepics.com/pics/2014/02/08/bikepics-2639926-full.jpg)
We lusted over these in high school, absolute monters.
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This guy's spelling needs some work... *navagate* isn't a word :rolleyes:
Dusty
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This guy's spelling needs some work... *navagate* isn't a word :rolleyes:
Dusty
He’d fit right in here..
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Nah
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MORON.
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He’d fit right in here..
We aren't pretending to be professional moto-journalists .
Dusty
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http://www.fanticmotor.it/en/moto/250cc/ (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.
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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.