Is UHE good for business?

right, here is an interesting one!

you learn from here how to do your own work - so thats bad for news! :cry:

you decide that a better part is available - so that's good for dealers!

we have lots of info for them to use that they could not have known in their own little world - so thats good news!

we don't pee them about when we know what we want? - so thats good news!

we buy our parts from the cheapest source, from bearing shops from each instead of new - so thats bad news :cry:

so overall - what are we?

regards

Taffy

any dealers want to join in or race team shops etc and have their say????????????????

DS dan?

fritz?

Dan?

Boss?

Fry?

Orange?

Gary G?

Aussie dealers?

regards

Taffy

nowhere parsko

if you didn't know i have given myself over to working a little on huseys and want to see which way it goes. i get about two days a week out of huseys which so far are all down to an old advert on ebay. if i could think of something else racey to put on there i would!

it's just that i think this is the first time it's been put as a question. we don't get much knowledge handed in by dealers and i'm sure on the one hand they don't want people to think they go wrong and on the other they don't want to EVER be marked down for their knowledge or lack of.

then you have the fact that one of the few who did say something - almost out of character as it turned ouyt: has been unfortunately the name that heads one of our longest threads for a very long time - orangeberg!

i think this site complements the used end, the cheapskate who wants to do it himself, or find it cheaper or, or etc etc. i can tell you that a dealer and especially the importer are more interested in the sector that can afford a new machine! call them type z or what you like, this site is all very well but it's those new sales that they want and the punter that can afford it.

has json ever been told where the site stands among the swedes? i mean orebro? i bet they speak more english than the austrians so i guess they would have a look and put an idea into practice?

i'd love to think there was just one thing we found that they didn't know about?

i'd just love to mark THEIR card for once. to know how much they know? i'd definately put my keihin knowledge against theirs. and some more.....

being a ducati enthusiast years ago i recall that steve wynne who had supplied the bike that mike hailwood returned to the IoM and won on said that he finally had the honour of visiting the ducati factory at borgo panigale. there, he explained why the dogs in the gearbox needed to be 3 to a gear and not the 6 they had and that they needed to be undercut for them to lock together. steve got this info after paying out of his own pocket for hewlands in the UK to check out a gearbox. they did all the F1 boxes on the cosworth DFVs then ruling F1.

Eng. Dr Taglioni produced a drawing of the very same 3-dog box with undercut gears dated 1966. he said that as a government run company all that he could do was design the bikes.....

without doubt the leading guys can teach the factory something but they are rare indeed. you need to be an exceptionally talented man in your field. in a narrow field.

still want to hear more. thanbks fritz for being so candid.

regards

Taffy

RE: I agree wiht berger

i can say that 6.5 years ago i put husaberg in a search and came3 here for a look. i probably didn't look too deep, i think i joined and then told everyone that i WAS going to buy one and it was a case of seeing one come up somewhere?

beings i can weild a monkey wrench the tales were a challenge, what came over straight away was that the bikes were bloody good handling and were light and quick! that was all i needed to know. so i think just to consider one you have to have a garage and want to get into them a bit.

i've just given jonty advice on how to do his own forks so have i robbed a dealer of work or can we say that he will only have so much to spend and that if it doesn't go wrong that he will now spend more time riding and will by plastics and a decal set instead and that he'll stay with huseys? that i can believe!

how manay owners here do all their own work and how many love the machines and even though they have the dosh: take them into the dealers?

i guess only a dealer can tell you that?

is it enough nowadays that a dealer says to every question: "bring it in"! or should we expect sound and trustworthy advice even though the dealer may lose the custom on this occasion? i know that there is far less loyalty today than ever but in general, a good experience at any dealers will keep you on a husey right? even if tomorrow you ask someone else for the bits!

i remember that a man bought the garage in our home village that was around the corner from ours. within a day or two someone went around to ask for a special tool and the proprietor thought this highly irregular but said yes only to find that his own mechanic within days needed a tool and said "i'll go and get one off dennis, we're always borrowing it!". later he felt chuffed as he picked up lots of new trade from my father only to find that they came back, one day they met and agreed that certain customers were wan....s and that it didn't matter a hoot how good you were or weren't they would always float!

upon my dads death he pulled mum over in the street with myself also in the car and recounted this story adding that my father had taught him a great deal and that when he started he didn't feel it was possible to get on together in business but had been proven wrong.

i recount this because i think its true and doesn't do 'us' customers any harm to be told what we're like.

if you think this is a decent thread then one day i'll start one on the mindset of the dealers and their outlook versus (and i use the term advisedly!!!!) the customers!

i know we think we're in this together (at least thats the USA view) but there are still issues that separate the two sides. i have mentioned to our american cousins before how we in europe see ourselves as us and them if not us v(ersus) them! the USA view was never clearer IMHO than when i saw the sponsorship at the second force ride! awesome gifts and way more than you could expect over here.

well enough for now!

i'm still mourning the loss of robert dunlop. a very sad day.

regards

Taffy