Quote: What are the actual sales numbers and demographics of those buyers? Are the numbers of any real significance in the context of national sales of motorcycles? And how many of those buyers are ex-HD/Honda/Kawa riders "moving over," rather than current or ex-Triumph riders "moving up"?
your putting to much thought into it.. now triumph may keep track of this stuff .. but the last bike i bought..no one asked what bike i owned before or how old i was ..i waked in was looking at the tiger.. asked about it.. took one for a test ride.. and the next day i was riding a new one home.
Quote: Yet, in real numbers, Triumph holds only a razor-thin slice of the market. The Thunderbird won't change that, and in fact, development of this machine in deference to one more broadly marketable will cost Triumph additional share. I'll go a step further by predicting that the process will accelerate due the current economic crisis. Rather than pushing aside its competition, the Thunderbird may very well be destined to a legacy not unlike the Edsel.
i know guys like you..who said the same thnig about the rocket III i see almost as many of them on the road as our bike..
triumph will do very well over the next few years because it is a smaller bike maker..and also it owned by one man..who does not have to answer to any one
