Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:41:20 +0200 - Message No. 4037
From: "Jorn Ronnow"

Subject: RE: Varadero / Insanity


Phoebus Katsanos wrote:
> I don't know about you, but for me anywhere isn't close to home,
> off-road isn't backroads and I am not an older married guy.
> If Honda really wants this kind of clients, well I am certainly not
> married to Honda, and I am free to buy any other motorcycle that fits my
> idea of a good bike, Honda or not!!!

In the early eighties, some manufacturers went crazy and didn't give
a toss about what the marketing researchers had to say about older
married men and their bank accounts.

Yamaha gave us the RD350 LC, Suzuki let loose the GSXR 750 R (the 
first of "racer with number plates") and Honda made the XLV 750.

None of these bikes had a preexisting market, but the Yamaha and
Suzuki (sorry about the XLV 750, it was before its time) created
nische markets.

So what we need now, when all manufactures appears to have gone sane,
is some new, fresh insanity in the upper management!


Keep sliding
-Jorn

(BTW, what if Ferrari finds out that most people buy practical cars?
And start building 4 door diesels?)




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