I just read this on the MCN web site Yamaha sales steady despite big price hikes | MCN
I checked the data on The Motorcycle Industry Association - MCIA site and sales of R1s a few of years ago was in excess of 2000, it only goes back to 2007. The prices of bikes have gone up so much (R1 was about £9k in 2007 and is now well over 12) here in the UK due to exchange reasons (they say) and sales of all bikes HAVE gone down every year since we found out the bankers were _ankers, they are not steady.
Now if they put the prices down then maybe they would sell more, generates more income for the dealers etc. I think they are just shooting themselves in the helmet at the moment.
Morning rant over.
I checked the data on The Motorcycle Industry Association - MCIA site and sales of R1s a few of years ago was in excess of 2000, it only goes back to 2007. The prices of bikes have gone up so much (R1 was about £9k in 2007 and is now well over 12) here in the UK due to exchange reasons (they say) and sales of all bikes HAVE gone down every year since we found out the bankers were _ankers, they are not steady.
Now if they put the prices down then maybe they would sell more, generates more income for the dealers etc. I think they are just shooting themselves in the helmet at the moment.
Morning rant over.