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... Maybe they know something that we don't know............... .but I'll be damned if i know what it is..
Seems likeif you can afford a Lexus SUV or an AMG with the word Kompressor on it, you can afford a Motus. Plenty of them around here.-AJ
Since this is the same forum that was bitterly criticising Piaggio and predicting MG's demise not that long ago, I'd say the future is bright for Motus. :^)
Neither "LEXUS", nor "AMG" will be on the tank of the "MOTUS".The name of the new motorcycle carries no value/panache/credibility.
I just hope that the great folks at Riders Hill don't get stuck with inventory that they wind up selling at a loss to eventually get them off the floor.
I don't believe that is true, but we will see.-AJ
AJ... people don't always spend money to just spend money. There are a lot of people with money that are very savvy about their spending, as well as selective. That's why a lot of them HAVE money. You'll have to tell us how they come out in that market.-Kevin
Alas, Kev -- there's always that second generation, and their next generation. Don't forget that there are a lot of people with a lot of money who didn't do anything to earn or produce that money, other than being born. Somehow we get our fair share of them 'round here; I know a local guy in his 30's who was born into the 4th generation of Old Industrial Money in the northeastern U.S. This "kid" (he's about 16, maturity-wise) has never had a job, has a "base" income of more than $300K per year ("base" = how much I get if I don't call Daddy and ask for more, which of course I do, regularly), spends more than 100 days a year skiiing, and buys whatever he darned well pleases. Those folks will buy anything that will impress their friends, and anything that catches their flickering attention. There's a lot of that in this land of ours -- offspring of the "self-made man" who have never learned (or needed to learn) that somebody put in some effort and years amassing the fortune. They don't have any notion of the value of money, and have minimal sense about how to conserve it. I guess it ain't a bad gig if you're born into it and don't know another viewpoint, but there's something so sad (and yes, annoying) about so many of those cluless, purposeless guys that I can't much stand to be around them, even the pleasant ones who act reasonably decent. They there are the Mark Cuban sort of folks -- or our part-time local resident, John Elway -- who worked hard for what they got, have a true boatload of money (in Elway's case, that'd be a Cigarette Boat) that puts the price of a MOTUS down in the "petty cash" zone of their budget. I'd still bet my whole monthly $1.87 "disposable income" that the MOTUS bikes won't survive in the long run: it's a nice-looking, solid sort of bike, but has nothing about it to call out to most guys with bucks to burn. Lexus built a reputation for quality-luxury across a lengthy market run. Porsche, Mercedes, Ferrari, etc. all worked for their fame across years of racing and savvy marketing of their state-of-their-art products. When you're trying to sell a "solid" product at twice the market price of an arguably just-as-solid competitor, you're trying to sell that Kompressor-sedan with a Maybach or Bentley pricetag. You may get a few buyers, but I'm not thinking you're going to take over anybody's market share. Just my $2.63 worth . . . --mb
Just one thing confounds me, why in hell would you take a perfect longitudinal crankshaft engine & trans and turn 90 degrees to a chain drive?
Todays chain is a very good product.
What a crock ! I have 1 MC with an an o-ring chain and it's WAY overrrated in my experience. :P Your still lucky to go 20K miles before it and it's sprockets need replacement for $200. Even tho I lube my chain periodically if I get 20K miles out of it all I'm lucky. I have chain, belt and shaft drive vehicles. BS me once, shame on you......... ::) Or is 20k miles longevity OK with you ?
