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22-12-17, 10:57 AM | #21 |
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Interestingly the article doesn't say that.
What it does say is that total UK sales of all motorcycles are down 15.5% There is no mention in the article of what Triumph's UK sales figures are, just some meaningless unsupported claim about being the market leader in bikes over 500cc. What we have with this Visordown article is a classic example of journalistic bias and spin. Out of curiosity I had a look for Bobber sales figures and it would appear there were 711 Bobbers registered in Q1 and Q2 of 2017 https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicl...le_bobber#!tax |
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may sell a few Bobbers to Saudi as well ... http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-...i-women-lifted
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22-12-17, 08:37 PM | #23 |
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Over the mentioned time period the Bobber outsold the StreetTwin two to one which given how good the StreetTwin is seems pretty amazing.
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Governments don't want any one upsetting the apple cart, they have rushed headlong into BEV and driverless vehicles as the latest way to 'save the planet' (just like Diesel, Wind power, solar power etc, etc.) like a drowning man clutching a straw. What about frost, snow, squashed insects, leaves, mud etc. blocking sensors. On the Guy Martin and the robot car program the other day one of the scientists said to get an autonomous vehicle to drive a simple route 'would take millions of lines of code' - that robot race car has crashed more than once just going around a simple track with no other vehicles in sight. If they ever become a reality AV are going to trash 10's millions of jobs while providing only hundreds of jobs in high tech companies. The only way to save planet is to severely restrict population, which no government is willing to tackle - so the 'MM climate change proponents' and others can put their theories up their jacksies until they tackle the 'elephant in the room' (which within 30 years may well be the only elephant on the planet LOL).
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Also how do you tell a driverless car to bend the rules and mount a verve to pass a tractor or lorry on a lane?
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4 kids is nothing (UK needs the natives to breed more LOL) when in third world countries 12+ seems to be the norm.
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Remember, there's not really much (if anything) machines can't do better than humans. Humans are becoming increasingly redundant, eventually machines will have no need of them whatsoever. Todays IT hardware is the primordial soup from which the next life-form will spring. Machines will be able to explore the universe in a way that humans never will. |
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