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Originally Posted by Cutty72
Hey tigger, not to fuel the fire, but I have worked in production before as well.
Worked for IMAR, the company that made Sugar Sand Jet boats and Gekko tow boats.
When a new design was made, we R&D'd everything (except the engine and drive system) in house, and then sent it off to a supplier to be mass produced. The engines we just spec'd out to a vendor (Mercury) what we wanted, and they gave us options after that.
Not all built in house... but designed. and that's where the R&D costs come in.
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Exactly in line with what I was saying. I know that the posts were long but that's my point. As far as switching vendors btw,unless the customer owned the dies,the new supplier would have to absorb die making and re-tooling costs. Not to mention new production line goof-ups and delays.
Anyway,MV is MV because of the way they are made and the use of nothing but top-notch components. Sure possibly HD could come in and start cost cutting and buying cheaper parts from dubious suppliers instead of using the established first class vendors that MV uses now. They could stop using the best brakes,suspension,fuel injection,rims,etc to save money. Who knows,they could sell you a bike for $10,000 with MV stickers on it...would it be the same bike? I don't think so.