suzuki marketing department on crack

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?p...urceId=2389654&articleCategory=NEWS_NEW-BIKES

"Suzuki has launched a special edition of the SV1000, in order to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of the firm's GSX-R sportsbike."

Looks quite nice, mind.

 

wrote

So how come your news client can wrap urls properly and others can't.

Is it just me or does it look astonishingly cheap as well?

 

it's one of the few things groups-beta.google does well.

do you mean the finish of the bike, or the actual cost in ukp?

If you mean the latter, it really depends on what you're comparing it
too - sure it's cheap compared to, say a GSXR-750.

However, who's it aimed at? I reckon it's aimed at people who'd buy a
Ducati but are put off my Ducati's image of frailty. So, if you compare
the price to Ducatis, you can get a 1000SS-FF for 500 quid less, or a
748 for a grand more - my first thoughts when looking at the Suzuki
were "**** me, that's expensive". Personally, I wouldn't pay more than
about 5K for an SV-1000.

 

I'm pretty sure others can - it's just that lots people don't know how
to work them properly. In Outlook Express, a URL shouldn't wrap if you
surround it in by "<" and "> (e.g <http://somwhere.out.there/>).

In Turnpike, if you past the URL using the "Paste pre-formatted text"
option, it shouldn't wrap. Or so I've been told.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Why not just make a 20th anniversary edition of the GSXR?

Almost looks the bloody same

 

says...

I'll tell my friend Becky[1], who is the Marketing Manager for Suzuki
GB (M/cycles division) that you think she's on crack. She'll like that,
I'm sure.

[1] Blonde, 5ft 2, gorgeous figure and pretty too. She's no slouch on a
bike either.

 

I very much doubt Suzuki GB came up with the idea.

I could be wrong, mind.

 

they have - special editions of the gsxr600 and 750, in "old skool"
suzuki colours - look pretty nice, IMO.

 

darsy says...

They do have quite a lot of input from what I'm told.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, darsy amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I had posters of the GSXR1100 up on my walls when they first came out
but I secretly lusted after the old ZX-10

 

fair enough.

Tell her I like the 20th Anniversary Gixer 750 - I love the pale-blue
tank....

 

darsy says...

I'll be too busy telling her she's got a cracking arse to remember
that.

 

Whinging Courier says...

<looks at post>

<looks at WC's sig>

What went wrong...

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, mups amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Eh? Nothing went wrong. What you on about?

<Re-reads reply>

OK, GSXR1100, although I don't know when it first came onto the market,
was around at the time I had my 50, they must've been quite recent
because I got a *huge* fucking poster of a blue and white and a red and
black one (1985?), anyway, at the same time I remember seeing the ZX-10
and thought if I ever wanted a big bike it would be that one (the ZX-
10). Time and lives have moved on and now I'd be in the position to buy
one, they're either like rocking horse poo or shagged or both.

FWIW, I don't think there's that much difference in the styling between
the early CBR thous and the Kwak I've just mentioned. Had the Kwak been
in the shop at the time I was going to buy I may well have had that - As
it was it was a toss-up between the CBR and a FZR thou but that was six
hundred quid more and I didn't have that much to play with.

 

The GSX-R1100 came out in 1986. We all gawped.

You're right - the ZX10 and the CBR thou were aimed at the same
market. The ZX10 came out in 1988, in response to the first
jellymould CBR1000, which had slightly usurped the GPz1000Rx.

As I said elsewhere, I had an absolute whale of a time on my ZX10 - I
have very fond memories of that bike.

 

I seem to remember the one Peebs had handled like a whale, in France.

 

yebbut - in a good way.

 

They were fugly, too.

 

Well it put a grin on our faces, even if Peebs was sweating a little.