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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
That was what I found with the Kickstands. The MFG has some awesome ones for the HD because the are Standard, and HD keeps the same setup on each model from year to year. For the Metrics, they just had a kickstand "Cover" And it said right on their website that the reason was because the metrics don't have a standard one.

Hopefully Yamaha will get it right, and keep some basic parts standard. Good call Doc.
 
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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
Im gonna digress from this thread a little....

this is something i would love to see happen in the states

yamaha should open a factory here in the states !!!!
 
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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
AMEN! That would ROCK, I think one near my house would be a great idea...
 
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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
Jade68454 wrote:
yamaha should open a factory here in the states !!!!

Don't hold your breath ... it will go to China or India first ...

Doc
 
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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
yeah if it came here the bikes prices may end up like the other American made bikes....
 
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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
It's called "Global Economy" or let's put the plant where we can pay the workers the least amount of money and sell our product with the biggest markup.

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Re:Star rules the metric world! 2 Years, 3 Months ago  
you are so right. Out source it so a guy in another country can live a good life at the cost of ours? Kind of wacky BUT if any of your 401k holdings are in companies that do this then it's our fault too.

I just thought about Victory, any body know how they are doing? I keep getting e-mails about lower prices.
 
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