dale
was the way dixie sales was taken ktm's fault? i mean, 'was it there for husaberg to go and grow?'. or did dixie just hope that without doing much special that they had arrived just in time to see big things happen and they were going to be on the boat just at the right time?
it's just that you always said you weren't commercially minded about the whole thing?
i can only say that it hurts that DCR GGR and S S over here have lost their dealerships but things just couldn't go on as they were!
if i were an aggressively business minded young dealer i would start with TM and then swop to husaberg and then go steal the honda dealership when the old bugger down the other end of town tires, wilts and 'snuffs it' (i fine british phrase!). that's the dealer moving on. likewise the manufacturers have to make the right bikes and when they do their market share goes up and ktm have proved to be brilliant at it
they therefore have a gap between their ability & money & know-how & RnD and where the product is. the gap is huge. it's a chasm, it's a void!
ktm used to be on their arse! they're now thee biggest and the best in this sector!
i just think that i just realised what i wnat and in a way, once there are large numbers of huseys out there i don't think i'll find what i want anymore....
for those that don't know, i was a member of the DOC in the eighties and nineties.
that stands for:
DUCATI OWNER'S CLUB
i did there what i have done here. exactly the same. we had everything go wrong with them, you had to be batty to buy one. mad! of course they also handled, they also sounded or looked unique. and then it all changed and they made the 851.....
suddenly, you had flea bitten owners with knackered old bikes telling each other where to save £2 (they're pounds eric ok?!?!) on the one hand (and yes i was one of them) and on the other you had some ****** stating that he now owned 10k worth of bike and had toured europe and liked the hand warmers (double w.....r).
na! the way i see it, fritz mate, if you have thrown everything at being a SUCCESFUL husey dealer then i think you're backing an absolute winner! and i hope dan reappraises things and goes back to ktm with a big plan and has some luck. i think it's his big chnace and i hope he takes it.
reappraise the plan, go big, join the orange network and grow with it...
regards
Taffy
