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2011 Honda CBR 250

Ailiaw said:
They should just put a single cyl thumper into one of these small bikes. I mean they put a single in the RC8 and that turned out pretty friggin' awesome.
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The YZF-R125 is a thumper :)

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I want one bad. It sells in the UK for the same price as the Ninja 250.
 
Beer. said:
I doubt they make much money off each one though.
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Probably not, but when you consider fixed costs, variable costs and then revenue for each sold, it makes sense to sell as many as possible, because once you reach a certain point the fixed costs per unit start to decrease, thus increasing profit per unit.

Certainly the tooling would be used for all the markets, and there would be some additional fixed/variable costs for each market.

The road to profit in Manufacturing is to sell as many units as possible. There is a reason that Kawasaki waited so long to redo that model. The Tooling was probably paid for by sales 10 years ago, and the profit per unit was probably pretty high, but now that the bike has been redesigned the profit per unit is probably lower due to investments in new tooling.

I would be curious to know the costs associated with bringing a motorcycle to the U.S. Market (emissions, fees etc), perhaps those variable costs are prohibitive unless the manufacturer sells more than X units, and X is too high for most niches.
 
If we get tiered licensing here we will start to see a lot of smaller bikes we havent had here in the past.
 
+1 because it is American tradition never to fix the root of the root of the problem but to bandaid-fix it instead. Kind of like a lazy software engineer.
 
codger said:
If we get tiered licensing here we will start to see a lot of smaller bikes we havent had here in the past.
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This is true. The government will force us to buy bikes we don't want. Screw the tiered license, it's not going to change anything. Back in my day we had economically forced tiered licenses. We just couldn't afford big bikes so we road the crap out of our small bikes. Trust me when I tell you that you can really hurt yourself on a little 250, heck I'm still trying to do that! LOL.

Thanx, Russ
 
spdt509 said:
they would sell a boat load of'em.....
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Oh my gawd yes, DO WANT...

russ69 said:
This is true. The government will force us to buy bikes we don't want. Screw the tiered license, it's not going to change anything. Back in my day we had economically forced tiered licenses. We just couldn't afford big bikes so we road the crap out of our small bikes. Trust me when I tell you that you can really hurt yourself on a little 250, heck I'm still trying to do that! LOL.

Thanx, Russ
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Yeah, but you can really hurt yourself on a bicycle too. I most certainly *can* get 10 feet of air on a bicycle, but it's a hell of a lot harder to do than on a motorcycle, and similar rules apply to motorcycle engine sizes. Takes more effort to get in a fiery 150mph crash on a 250 than on a 1000.
 
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