It's this weekend (starts in half an hour! http://www.motorcycleshows.com/LongBeach I'm gonna be there Sat. Anybody else going? The booth is by a dealer, not really a factory effort so I highly doubt the 630 will be there. But we can hope
Take your camera! I seriously doubt a 630 will be there if it is this weekend... Let us know how it goes
The TE630 is going to be 50/50 for Toronto. Some woman from the Husq Factory called me today and told me that DHL was flying 2 bikes to Canada this weekend and wanted to know my address to deliver them on Monday. I know that one is a 2010 SMR510, but I am not sure about the other one.
If I have any battery left after taking pics of the Ducati Girls maybe I'll get around to the husky booth.
Seriously though, I gotta get a second battery. It doesn't seem like selling motorcycles is all that difficult. Put a hot girl in a skimpy outfit. More/better looking girls = sales Men are not all that complicated If it were up to me I'd put the bike in a kiddie pool with 9" of mud in it and have the girls crawl around pointing and go "look at that great ground clearance!"
Sad to say the show was pretty lame compared to previous years. What is this world coming to? Ducati had ONE girl in their whole frikken booth and she was serving coffee rather than being properrly spotlit and on a rotating pedestal ! I think this recession must be worse than I thought! The frankenboot sisters I dunno who these people are but they have a much better business plan than Ducati. Mine was the only 610 I saw all day No 630, but honestly it was one of the better booths there, and it sure is nice to see Husky gettin the name out. This is a picture of me getting caught being not so stealthy:huh Del Amo Motorsports brought the genuine Del Amo Shopping experience. ( Everything outside is 20-50% off too:deal ) Leo Vince was showing off some "cans", but I never saw a booth or a muffler Honestly I never even saw the logo til I looked at the picture at home OK, I think this guy does not understand the proper Ducati/show Model/Camera relationship.
I can't believe how theseguys miss the boat every year. How many more bikes could they sell if they were on the floor at the same time as the Japanese bikes? I am sure they could do 2X more business if they took the U.S. market (largest market for high priced dirt bikes in the world) more seriously. Californians buy more bikes every year than all of Europe combined. Someone should really get in gear, run more ads, and hire a high-end rider like Reed or Stuart. They would have to build another plant to keep up with production. I've never seen a company with such a great product be so nonchalant about getting it to market on time. Too bad I'm not in charge.
None of the Euro Mfg'rs understand the US Market... If you think Husky is bad, try Triumph... They delay production of the 1600 Thunderbird cruiser for almost four years - Thats how long they were talking about it in dealer meetings.. You don't know how many people walked out of our local Triumph dealership because there was nothing between the 900cc America and 2200cc Rocket III (of which I am a proud owner of a Turbocharged version). So when do the Aholes introduce it - when the world economy tanks and the US cruiser market drops 48 percent. The bike is the toast of the town with the MC rags, but the market has dried in half The Euro mfg'ers dance to their own drummer and I can point to many times where their decisions really cost them... Mike...
and then there's the French... I have a friend who works for McDonalds in Chicago. Someone got the bright idea that if they standardized ALL of their serving equipment they could save the System many millions of dollars. So they did, but the french refuse to work with White tubs of onions, they must be red in france, and cost $3 more per tub course he has stories about the US as well, they can't pre-mix salt and pepper in the meat, because someone would sue them for it not being 100% beef.
