Stupid Question About Motorcycle Prices

 

   Being that we're supposedly in the worst economy in years, and that
motorcycle sales are way off lately, why is it that every year, new
motorcycle msrp's are up 2-5%, as they have been for the last 20 to 30
years? Discuss.

 


Japanese Yen rising in value relation to the USD $?

I really read the tea leaves wrong when I bought my last new Japanese
motorcycle.

I thought that the USD $ was going to to drop by at least 50% in
relation to the Yen, making a $9K Yamaha 1000cc machine cost $14.5K
the following year.

But when I bought the new bike (cash, of course!), a previous year's
model was available for only $8K and the onliest difference was the
color scheme.

I have only paid full retail for one Japanese motorcycle, and that was
for the wildly popular Yamaha DT-1 Single Enduro.

I have bought all the rest of my new Japanese machines for 15~30% off
MSRP by
walking into the showroom with a wad of cash during business
recessions.

When Honda announced that they were going to offer the wildly popular
CBR900RR, I went to Bill Riperofferson's $tealer$hip in Hollywood to
investigate pricing.

The $alesman advi$ed me that the RR was going to sell for $9K and that
I'd better put down a deposit because they'd be hard enough.

I told the guy that the RR was only worth a *maximum* of $7K and that
I didn't even *want* one if they were going to be as "rare" as he
claimed.

 



What a dick. You, not him.


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Suzuki TS250ER GN250  Damn, back to six bikes!
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chateau dot murray at idnet dot com

 

 


Uh, don't you know what sort of guy *wants* to show it to other guys?

You appear to have an unlimited suuply of ammunition when it comes to
shooting yourslf in the foot.