this is not a super bike. This is an ordinary off the showroom floor street bike available to anyone. I can’t believe they had multiple guys building a new bike. I worked as a motorcycle mechanic in several shops, and they would not burden the mechanics with building new bikes. They usually had young kids with no experience building new bikes which just amounted to installing The front wheel and fender, the gauges, the turn signals and brake lights, the handlebars, piece of cake. When I first started, I used to build four of the same model street bike at the same time. Example, I would unbox 4 750 Honda street bikes. I would take all of the bits and pieces out of the plastic and lay them out in order. Then I go from bike to bike, I put on the right front turn signal, on the first bike, then the second bike, then the third bike, then the fourth bike, then I go back and put the other turn signal on on the first, the second, the third ect.. I could build four bikes in the time it would take to build two bikes separately, and I would get paid for building four bikes. It would take me about two hours myself in the warehouse we kept the bikes in. I would have the stereo blasting because there was no one else around, just me and the forklift.. I would get $22 for each bike. I work there part time at that time after I would get home from working my real job. I would go in, work two or three hours, make almost $90, and go home.. The reason I worked in motorcycle shops part time, so I can get parts at cost because I raced motorcycles at that time, plus I flipped motorcycles on the side, I would need parts once in a while, tires, chain, sprockets, oil, filters, ECT, I would get them at cost because I work there.. those were the good old days before the Harley Davidson tariff put over 1100 motorcycle shops across the country out of business permanently. I was actually working at three of those shops when they went out of business because of the tariff. Harley hired a Wall Street businessman to be the CEO. He knew how to get things done in Washington. He had President Ronald Reagan put a tariff on Japanese motorcycles. That was the end of Low prices on motorcycles. Example, a brand new Honda 750 was $2999. The day the tariff hit, that price jumped to $4750. prices never came back down. Thanks a lot Harley. I’ll never forget it by the way, Harley went crying to Ronald Reagan to save 600 jobs in Wisconsin Harley factory.. The reason he had to go to Washington to try to save the factory from going out of business is, nobody was buying Harleys. The Japanese were coming out with unbelievable technologically advanced motorcycles, four cylinders, six cylinders, triples, shaft drive, water cooling, fuel injection, disc brakes, Tubeless tires, full dressers like the Goldwing interstate, the Yamaha venture royale, the Kawasaki voyager, the suzuki cavalcade. The big Japanese for each had turbos right on the showroom floor.. And the machines were very affordable.nobody was buying the stone age Harleys..Harley Harley businessman named Von Bealls.. he convinced President Reagan that the Japanese were dumping motorcycles here below cost.. so the tariff was imposed… to save the 600 jobs at the Harley factory.. one mentions the fact that the average number of employees in the over 1100 motorcycle shops in this country that went out of business within three years of the tariff, means that over 7000 Americans lost their jobs that worked in those motorcycle shops at that time. I was one of them. I actually worked in one shop, it went out of business I worked on another one, it went out of business I went to a third one, they went out of business because of that tariff.. The price of motorcycles in this country jumped by 45% overnight because of that tariff, and they never came back down….
