...but could be huge in the moto world... Looks like KTM is in deep...
https://motomatters.com/news/2024/11/26/ktm_announce_restructuring_proceedings.html
They'll be ok [thumbsup]
It's just suits brushing up against each other, maintaining ego and wallets while screwing with clients, dealers and employees.
Remind me when they're called Bajaj. ;D
Quote from: ducpainter on November 27, 2024, 08:20:56 AM
Remind me when they're called Bajaj. ;D
Maybe they'll change colors.
If they'd make me a deal on a new 890 or 990 I could help out.
Quote from: stopintime on November 27, 2024, 08:54:05 AM
Maybe they'll change colors.
Yeah, red with 5 yellow stars.
Not getting better... https://motomatters.com/blog_entry/2024/12/16/monday_motogp_link_dump_liberty_vs_the.html
Scroll down.
It begins...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/honda-nissan-merger-talks/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/honda-nissan-merger-talks/index.html)
The world is moving toward monoculture: one search engine (Google), one shopping source (Amazon), one language (English), one currency (USD), one music (pop)...
Soon enough there will be one motorcycle manufacturer and we will all have one haircut and wear one gray jumpsuit to perform the one job left for humans: shoveling coal into a pit to feed the machine.
Pink Floyd?
Quote from: stopintime on December 18, 2024, 07:11:19 AM
Pink Floyd?
The imagery says so, but sadly the monoculture glacier will lead to one artist and it will be Taylor Swift and it will never stop playing...
Oh make the beast with two backs.
Quote from: 1.21GW on December 18, 2024, 08:58:21 AM
The imagery says so, but sadly the monoculture glacier will lead to one artist and it will be Taylor Swift and it will never stop playing...
Quote from: stopintime on December 18, 2024, 10:28:13 AM
Oh make the beast with two backs.
No shit...
Luckily...I'll be dead before I listen to Taylor Swift.
Quote from: 1.21GW on December 18, 2024, 05:54:43 AM
It begins...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/honda-nissan-merger-talks/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/honda-nissan-merger-talks/index.html)
The world is moving toward monoculture: one search engine (Google), one shopping source (Amazon), one language (English), one currency (USD), one music (pop)...
Soon enough there will be one motorcycle manufacturer and we will all have one haircut and wear one gray jumpsuit to perform the one job left for humans: shoveling coal into a pit to feed the machine.
There was a book about that...years ago.
Calm down.
Quote from: 1.21GW on December 18, 2024, 05:54:43 AM
It begins...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/honda-nissan-merger-talks/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/honda-nissan-merger-talks/index.html)
Honda is "roughly 5 times the size of Nissan" .... I'm surprised by that.
But it begins? It began a long time ago... already...
It accelerates.
Back to KTM...
https://motomatters.com/news/2024/12/20/ktm_plan_to_pull_out_of_motogp_moto2.html
Quote from: ducpainter on December 18, 2024, 02:43:32 PM
There was a book about that...years ago.
Calm down.
1984 by Orson Wells
Quote from: DarkMonster620 on December 20, 2024, 12:55:15 PM
1984 by Orson Wells
Orson Wells narrated 'War of the Worlds' in 1938. It was written by H.G. Wells in 1898.
George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948...completed in '49... but you got the reference. [thumbsup]
So..... if KTM continues production the bike's will all be built in..... Brazil?? ;D
Accosta must be nervous. Ducati might be circling with sponsors money.
So, a few egos surely bruiced, but with a billion or so, they're back on track.
They will struggle with a very poor reputation for a long time. Need more money?
My $2 worth: CF Moto will eventually acquire the KTM name and consolidate production to China.