New FireBlade

Editing a word in a post and making a comment okay ...

Removing half the sentence is taking it a bit far - especially when I
actually remembered to put the right sentence in the first place.

 

In that case I'd hate to be stood behind one when the engine lets go.

 

FFS, it's *marketing*, not "advertising".

 

Says UKRMs' answer to Trinny & Susanna.

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"Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"

 

I reckon it looks cool, don't be scared, you'll get used to it.

 

"Homda Buttplug" more like.

It's gash.

 

"Nah bollocks, all Hondas are shite. I had a thrash on one and it was
rubbish below 4 thou. Didn't actually get above 4 thou but I bet it's
rubbish there as well. And it only had one footrest! Honda build quality my
arse"

 

why is that?

As I see it there are a number of possible reasons:

a) only Italian bike manufacturers employ designers with the necessary
flair to get away with underseat exhausts
b) they actually do look terrible on any bike, but people buy into the
hype of "italian style"
c) you've got an irrational dislike of japanese bikes with underseat
exhausts?

 

Certainly not my idea of a good looking bike. Wouldn't mind a go on
one though. There are more pictures and info in the comic this week.
The new R1 isn't *too* bad but I still prefer the current model. TBH
none of the 2004 stuff would make me want to part with £8k+.

....and this fucking thing really did clobber itself on the fall
through the ugly tree...

http://www.mc.honda-eu.com/flash_content/cbf600/cbf600_c.html

If that's the replacement for the Hornet the designer should be shot,
although the naked version is "passable".

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Daz
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CB250 - Purpose
Fazer600 - Bit of both
CBR600 - Racer
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How so?

It's an exact quote from the honda TV ad therefore in my mind is
advertising.

I see marketing as people talking to other people about products, doing
seminars, offering free trials, etc.

 

Cuddly toy?

Act chewily, underseat storage is one thing that the GT lacks. There
is a small space, currently occupied by the tool kit, that would be
sufficient for Kate Moss's lunch, but bugger all else.

 

they're different jobs, really. Marketing is usually in-house,
advertising usually isn't.

 

I see marketing as deciding which direction a product is going in and
which market it's aimed at. Advertising is then the targeting of
those markets.

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Daz
GSXR1000K2 - Fun
CB250 - Purpose
Fazer600 - Bit of both
CBR600 - Racer
MRO#26 | FOT#115 | FOF#48 | two#41
http://www.highsideuk.com
ukrm at btopenworld dot com

 

Marketing holds the customer down while sales screws them.

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cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30
botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl]
New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/
"Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"

 

Up to this point I believed you, but even I know that in marketing
nobody ever does any work.

 

John Weak is my hero.

http://www.clickmt.com/magazine/from_the_back.cfm

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cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30
botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 apostle [kotl]
New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/
"Brace yourselves ladies, I'm coming in dry"

 

you think that blue is bad, check out the "candy lightning blue" on the
cbr125

ouch

 

<Ob>
Ah Bear's gone for that "anti-advertising dollar", that's a huge market!

 

What's the deal with all these new Hondas this year - it "International Year
of the Shitty Little Bike" or something?

 

that's about the size of it.

Advertising just takes pics.