02-02-2017, 02:13 AM
(02-02-2017, 01:10 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote:(02-02-2017, 12:49 AM)aschem_imp Wrote: Talk about a drifting thread
Yea drifted a bit but there was not a lot of response about the EBR thing. I think most people don't really care if EBR went out or not.
Things are pretty quiet around here right now. The 17's haven''t hit the showrooms and we've been talking 2013's and 2014's for a couple of years now. Plus it's winter in a lot of places so few are riding. So a little more thread drift than usual is to be expected I suppose.
We need an infusion of 2017 CB excitement to get things going again.
Yea drifted a bit but there was not a lot of response about the EBR thing. I think most people don't really care if EBR went out or not.
It's true that most people don't care as most of them never heard about EBR. And I wouldn't know about EBR until I met one guy riding it a few months ago. What a fine motorcycle ... the design includes using the interior of the frame as gas tank ! If given enough time, I am pretty sure EBR would catch up with Ducati, Honda ... in term of performance.
The fact that most people don't know about EBR is because EBR marketing is weak IMHO. Good engineering is not good enough. Good marketing would make better sales than good engineering. Harley Davidson understood that better than anyone else. From the motorcycle technology advancement perspective, HD is far behind BMW, Honda, Ducati, Yamaha ... but from the marketing perspective, I believe HD has done a fine job.
The things that happened to EBR is just too sad. They deserve to be successful and I would like to see at least one US company getting into high-performance supersport motorcycles.