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| Originally Posted by couchcommando I thought as discussions go it was a valid one. As business models go Harley Ducati and now Triumph all use the same one. That is to sell an inferior product by basing the buying decision on emotion and then present you with the 'extras' catalogue. Luckily for all 3 marques that bike buying is still an emotional thing, if we were to base it purely on figures,costs,stats etc we would all be riding Honda appliances  |
I completely disagree with you. The 675 and Sprint ST are arguably class leaders and not inferior products. The other Triumph products are carefully targeted at niche markets and again are arguably as good as or better than the Japanese equivalents.
Harley don't really have a Japanese equivalent- they are in a class of one. Japanese "customs" are laughably sad. They more than Triumph or Ducati sell a lifestyle.
Ducati...well they have some problems atm as they aren't attracting new customers and aren't doing a particularly good job at retaining long-terms ones like myself.