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07-11-10, 09:42 PM | #1 |
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An open letter to the Motorcycle industry
Dear Motorcycle industry peeps,
Please stop making motorcycles more powerful then fitting anti wheelie, traction control and mode buttons. Its stupid! Just make them less powerful! Love and kisses, Carl |
07-11-10, 09:48 PM | #2 |
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Well said!!! or turn off the gimmicks. I would
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08-11-10, 07:14 AM | #3 | |
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thanks for your letter, but we feel we must correct you on some points yes we make more powerful bikes but are fully aware that there are plenty of muppets who cant ride them (see left) we add these anti power ranger devices for such spastics whom want a nice expencive shiney shiney but then think they are rossi even tho they put 60 miles on the clock a year as im sure your aware anyone with half a brain cell can disengage these systems with nothing more than a screwdriver and black nasty, but this situation obviously stops the aboved mentioned morons from doing so. we hope this has answered your questions to why we use the anti retard devices for said weekend warrior, dumb ass, can ride fecking stupid pr1cks yours people from the motorcycle industry |
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When people stop demanding Rossi's bike with all it's gimicks, we'll stop making them. Have you considered one of our dirt bikes? They're pretty simples. Love & Kisses The Motorcycle Industry
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08-11-10, 08:34 AM | #5 |
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Dear Motortcycle industry,
You may indeed find that people would rather have the bikes cheaper at the expense of the gimmicks. After all, several of your members now offer a lesser model from the top model that doesn't have all the bells and whistles. I presume you agree or wouldn't have allowed Aprilia to launch their lesser model or Ducati to launch theirs. With full traction control now available on bikes with "only" 137 bhp (new MV 675 F3) ist a downward spriral. Perhapse you should have a little chat with your friends over at the Motorcycle Racing Rules industry and see if you can agree that it was a mistake to put traction control on everything so it can be used in racing classes where it will force those who don't have it as standard to introduce it to compete on the track. We are now likely to see a whole raft of 600 bikes with traction contron, just to keep up with MV Augusta on track. This will cost them, then us a lot of money and the prices are likely to be hiked again! Fluffy bunnies, Carl |
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I am glad you acknowledge the success of our business model. Whilst we strive to keep costs down to increase profit margin, we will continue to increase the price of bikes as long as people keep buying them. We could make cheaper bikes if we tried, but what is in it for us? Regarding racing, we would be delighted for you to buy a new bike in order to keep up with TC bikes as obviously the technology makes them faster. Remember, second hand sales are not great for our business. Yours The Motorcycle Industry |
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Dear Carl
Over the past 15 years, we the motorcycle industry have been striving to refocus our target customer form the traditional motorcyclist who owns a motorcycle because he is too poor to buy a car, to our new target motorcyclist who has the money to buy state of the art motorcycles and this allows us to generate a return on investment from the research and development we put into motorcycle racing. We are delighted, young and aspiring motorcycle racers such as yourself see the benefit we are bringing to your sport and thank you for the investment you inturn make in our industry in order to remain competitive. Yours The Motorcycle Industry
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Dear Carl,
There's a great little bike out there that we think will fit all of your requirements. It's called a Suzuki SV650, you may even have heard of it. Kind regards, The Motorcycle Industry. |
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Dear Carl.
You can always buy a five year old superbike for a pittance without the bells and whistles.You will certainly enjoy it just as much if not more than a very expensive new one.You are the sort ofr person that p1ss us off no end, Yours The Motorcycle Industry.
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