I remember meeting with a Harley Davidson engineer at a trade show and I remember explaining to him that best way to get kids to care about the brand is introducing them at a young age. The PW50 got many people into Yamaha same with the 65cc from KTM, Kawasaki and Honda . It allows kids to feel connected to the brand and actually care. The younger you get the audience to care, the more loyal they’ll be.
Sometimes. Ppl aren't always loyal. They want best bikes esp in highly competitive MX market. Grew up riding /racing Kawasaki KXs. Haven't bought a new one in 20yrs+. KTM & Yamaha in my garage. 💯
Well, good forecast! So, let's hope that in 10 years we will have a unicorn bike that is sub 170kg fully loaded and with decent behavior in the both worlds....dream on 😆
Exciting times for sure! Disappointed in the decision by the parent company of KTM to move production and R&D to China and India, nixing 300 jobs in Austria. Cancelled my order for a KTM Six Days 500 EXC-F. Looking at Beta now. Already have a Ducati Panigale. If they had a dual sport ready for the market I would likely move in that direction.
Honda had no serious experience with motocross, but by the early 70s they were killing the competition with their first generation motocross bikes, despite the owner and CEO having to be dragged into the sport kicking and screaming. I will say good move Triumph and Ducati.
As a guy who grew up on two wheels in the 60's/70's starting with mini bikes, mini cycles, enduros/dirt bikes, trials competitions, motocross (earning an AMA Expert license in 125cc Motocross and then racing in 250cc Amateur briefly), flat track/TT's, and finally earning an AMA Pro/Expert license in 250cc/350cc Road Race and racing in the Daytona 200 in 1975 as an 18 year old senior in H.S., I would just offer up the opinion that if you are trying to capture the youth market, a 250cc Motocross bike is way too advanced but for all but the top 0.001% of young riders...it is a bike that will get you dead/seriously injured unless you have high level skills. Young novice riders really need to start with underpowered dirt bikes to learn how to go fast at loss of traction time before getting on any motocross bike, especially a 250cc model. After my mini bike/cycle days my first bike was a Yamaha DT 125, and my first Mx bike was a YZ100, then a YZ125 (which we would modify for flat track and TT races), then YZ250, then the TZ250/350 for Road Race during a partial AMA season in '75. p.s. I now ride a 2023 Ducati ) Panigale V4 R.
I wish them luck, but wouldn't it make more sense for Ducati to get into cruisers and high displacement scooters? After all they are the Harley Davidson of Generation X (with them being the last to be able to afford them) and those guys aren't getting any younger. Them going after MX-kids feels a bit like Bugatti building an entry-level subcompact (whicht they would totally have to do to save their fleet fuel economy if it wasn't for being owned by Volkswagen)
the big elephant in the room not mentioned is KTM* (not ducati sorry)being leader. Making ton of money and buying other manufacturers left and right. If other manufacturers don't wake up its gonna become like car business with3 or 4 multi brand groups owning everything
Great video. But what's with the stupid bandana? It totally distracted from the point you were trying to make. Just embrace your thinning hair and shave the rest off.
Bro, the bandana was too distracting. I barely took notice and only watched all tge way through hoping you would come to terms with the fact it's time to shave your head and grow a handlebar/chopper moustache 🤙🏽 good concept though
Haha yeah, the bandana had nothing to do with me losing my hair ... I genuinely failed to put it on, I only had it because it wrote Ducati on it ... but a handlebar mustache? I might give that a trial at one point :))
I mean... Sherco has been growing a lot in the Enduro and Hard Enduro scene... Heck, I even own one :) I think they all have space in the market, we'll see!
@@KRANKiT We will see, im not convinced on the Bajaj built Triumphs, Bajaj have only ever built small road bikes, not competition MX bikes, and the so called specialist MX dealers listed are the same useless Triumph main dealers, who are terrible with parts supply from my experience (ive had 2 and still got one Triple) The Triumph MX bikes look to me much like the SuperQuadro mono 650, the marketing doesnt quite fit the suggested use. but we will see i guess. good videos anyway mate, keep it up
I assumed Ducati and Triumph wanted to prove to bitter and cynical hard-asses who don't have a B license (such as myself) that they are capable of making all-weather bikes. I mean, Triumph even started making 400cc's, the golden displacement for the car-less :D
@@Blockbuster2033 I'd say 650 is aspirational; at least when you live on a plain; I had a 650 once, and it was much more than enough in all scenarios, even though my girlfriend at the time was quite fa... (cough) beautiful and talented.
they just want money..... more options is better but they just want to monitize the big whale adventure poser bike that is now so commom and cost more than a SUV and that brings us to ducati and others..... all i want is a cheap, reliable bike that i can have fun with and dont worry that i will drop it or that the maintenaince is a nightmare..... so im basicly stuck with japanese and if lucky some premium chinese that are coming... the others are for boomers that think riding a super ugly bike is coool.....
Under Audi ownership the street engines have been made more robust with valve service intervals extended as just one result. Much more power now. The dirt bikes will likely smoke the competition.
