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12-08-08, 07:19 AM | #1 |
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Bike magazines long term test bikes?
Anyone wonder what happens to these after they get returned? From the mags I read, every year they get a whole load of new bikes to "test". Each issue they add on 1000s of pounds worth of exhausts, rearsets, power commanders, dyno-time, expensive shocks etc. which I'm pretty sure the journos aren't forking out of their own pockets for. Then they disappear and the new batch turn up So what happens to the old ones with all the bling? Do the manufacturers get them? Do they sell them on?
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12-08-08, 07:24 AM | #2 |
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Re: Bike magazines long term test bikes?
Quite often they throw them down the road before then
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Re: Bike magazines long term test bikes?
they go back tot he manufacturers don't they? the brands keep a stock of bikes to lend to journalists. dunno about the bling, i assume they just take it off and flog it before returning the bikes, pretty sure they add the accessories they want out of their own pocket
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maybe the guys are loaded but do this job for fun? maybe the magazine pays for the upgrades? i dunno, but i can't think of many who've spent over a grand on an exhaust system though - sounds like the exception rather than the rule...
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if you really want to find out the answer just look up the contact details in the back of BiKE mag and email the guys with the bikes...
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12-08-08, 08:25 AM | #8 |
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Re: Bike magazines long term test bikes?
Ask Soulkiss - he's a bike journo
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12-08-08, 10:11 AM | #9 |
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Re: Bike magazines long term test bikes?
I'd imagine at some point they get passed into the dealer network and sold. i know that the bikes that the Travelling Marshalls use for the TT/MGP are disposed of this way.
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Re: Bike magazines long term test bikes?
My understanding is that they are returned to standard prior to returning them to the importers and they are then sold off, you occasionaly read that a journalist has purchased the bike or see them winge that they were not able to.
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