I agree with you Ed. I've run my own business and am looking to start another one. The big manufacturers will move in when they see Triumphs market share equal to the bigger companies. Then what will happen to the little guys that were here in the beginning? They'll be squeezed out.

Most people only see what they get from the product. The freak is more than just some brackets, and pods. For one thing the brackets aren't being mass produced where an employee puts a piece of metal into a machine and it gets stamped into the correct shape and size being able to produce 100 per minute. It's one guy hand building it from scratch, drilling and bending. Then sending it out to get powder coated. Not to mention the pods, having to buy them and then put them into the kit.

Now that's not to say I wouldn't like to have paid less for the kit. Sure I'd be insane not to want to pay less money for it but I didn't have to buy it. Most people on this site don't have it and their bikes run. You aren't required to buy this, you convince yourself that you need it or want it. The only person you have to blame is yourself, just as I can only blame myself for everything I've bought for the bike.

John Like a dog on a car ride with my tongue in the wind