Who did Honda give the engine to?

A bitzsa,a motorcycle-prostitute of sorts

http://www.mondialmoto.it/

Makes not a iota of difference to the scheme of things,i believe they have
sold all of 1 or 2 ,much less a effort than say Benelli who did its own
triple and had a go at SBK racing.

Way overpriced for nothing more than a SP2 with fancy bodywork and some
trick bits.

Buy the "real deal" a MvAgusta , that has pedigree,style,history oh and its
own built engine too

Full marks for trying , but i dont think it is anything like a commercial
sucess

CDIHL

 

You of all people shouldn't have any difficulty living with free market
economics.

Who are you to desribe them as having an unrealistic price tag?

An average car driver might laugh at the money one would spend on tyres and
other consumables for an $18,000 hunk of metal and plastic that is an R1.
They might even consider it a ridiculous pricetag for something that can't
keep them dry, carry the shopping or even a passenger in comfort. $18K!
What a ripoff...

Jules

 

Why? My talent for making money eclipses only my ability to pull chicks...
in a truly free market, I'd be fucked.

Someone who has a problem with those whose business plan boils down to
sucking rich-man cock. All they're doing is turning out an
on-paper-impressive product in limited numbers and declaring it worth as
much as three of the things which do the same job, but which come out of a
bigger factory with a not-as-evocative name across the front gate.

"What price exclusivity?", as dangled by everyone from Ferrari to Pierre
Cardin to, now, Mondial. It's pandering, reprehensible when done with
pointless trinkets such as clothes, jewellery and ornate lamps, a downright
travesty when inflicted on objects which would've been engineered towards a
dynamic purpose.

Not an applicable parallel to draw. The R1,wisely, makes no pretensions
towards practicality, or sensibility, or even any kind of logic, hence it is
not something to appraise relative to what "an average car driver" might
consider a viable buy; you don't point at Kip Thorne and say, "That ****
can't kick a footy like (Smee, help me out here; who's an accomplished
kicker of a football?), so 'e must be fucked".

However, neither does the Piega. Like the R1, the Piega points out its list
of advanced features (carbon-fibre swingarm and seat unit, Ohlins and
'Cheesy where applicable, I think they might even come with a Marelli
MT-series LCD dash, which are outrageously expensive...) and claims_speed_,
albeit at more than three times the price, bugger-all in terms of sales
support.

 

Have some faith in yourself IK, event physics boffins can learn
to flip burgers eventually ...

Eh? It's pinching money off rich wankers and giving it to
graduate engineers, which at the very least will reduce the
competition for the burger-flipping jobs. And don't feel too
bad about it poisoning the rep of what was once a great and
noble company: if it founders, the history books will simply
dismiss it as "the brand name was later sold."

Should you ever meet one, just shrug and say "Hey, didn't
this win bike of the year? The engine, that is?"

-----sharks

 

Thanks John

Already found it in my own copy - Once I had the name of the company it all
came backto me and I knew which magazine to look in (beaing the hoarder that
I am). I posted the account from ARR somewhere else.

Cheers M