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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
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Quite often they throw them down the road before then
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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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I know the manufacturers get them back, but what do they do with them?
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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 ![]()
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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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Ask Soulkiss - he's a bike journo
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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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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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