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     Swamp2 |
This was buried down in a thread over on quick board but I thought this would be a good home for it as well... http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6602404/indust ry-news/scenes-from-the-buell-motorcycle-factory-l iquidation-sale/index.html I would have liked to hear some more details of his chat with Erik... | ||
| Moxnix |
Decent article. | ||
| Budgolf |
Would have been nice to have been a fly on the wall watching Erik let that guy have it. | ||
| 46champ |
Quote...The meeting went pretty much as I expected. Erik was cordial, as always. But with little to lose and no brand to protect anymore, he told me with extreme candor exactly how he felt about Buell Motorcycles’ unceremonious end. Then he went on for some minutes—many minutes, in fact—about his frustration with the motorcycle media. Buell has had a notoriously prickly history with the motorcycle press. Some of the stories written recently, especially those regarding Buell’s controversial Daytona Sportbike championship, have profoundly upset him, and he let me know why and how. Sounds like he got an ear full of supporting the the foreign manufactures vs the home team. Quote...I have no intention of going further with any of this. It was a difficult conversation—probably the most difficult of my career—and one that in some ways I’d like to forget. Yea I bet he wants to forget about the fact that they (the media) were at least partially culpable in the ultimate down fall of another American manufacture. | ||
| Buell2001b |
Unfortunatelly the media has a lot of powerand when liberals control it they will destroy anything American made. | ||
| Cravacor |
Hey Buell2001b, lets keep politics out of it, OK? | ||
| Blake |
Politics or no, it takes a certain really f****ed up mentality of a self-ordained critic to publicly piss and moan relentlessly against the only American sport bike manufacturer. I despise them all. | ||
| Reepicheep |
And I think his beef, like my beef, wasn't even wanting favorable coverage... lets just make it fair for God's sake. Even Kevin Cameron, who should know better, seemed to be going out of his way to miss facts when talking about all the "advantages" a near production version of an 1125 cc twin had over a race built inline four with two decades of development experience. In spite of the obvious facts that the fours could outrun the twins down the long straights, then outbrake them at the other end. Pretty sad that domestic companies and values get less benefit of the doubt and less accurate reporting then "anything but American"... which seems to be the way the press swings these days. So Japanese cars are assumed great, unless something goes terribly wrong, while American cars are assumed awful, unless they do something extraordinarily right. | ||
| Davegess |
So Japanese cars are assumed great, unless something goes terribly wrong, while American cars are assumed awful, unless they do something extraordinarily right. That is why I so enjoying the whole Toyota recall thing. And the American media is not pulling any punches on this either. | ||
| Moxnix |
Well, since Obama runs GM, I suppose that may have something to do with the newsies' talking about how Toyota and Honda, too, are busy with recalls, so buy a Chevy for Obama. I stopped buying US cycle magazines about 1992 when I realized they are puff sheets for major advertisers, then mostly from Japan. It must have been cathartic to give the guy a piece of his mind, though. Well done! Who will they kick around now? | ||
| Oddball |
Still have the moco, roehr and that other company in md. | ||
| Toecutter |
Let me paraphrase the Erik Buell interview portion of the article: "Erik was angry and bummed about H-D and media treatment of his motorcycle company, and went into great detail, but I am not going to share any of it." |
