BTW Thanassis, this part of your last posting reminded me of somethin' I believe I've forgotten to mention to anyone around here....
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I still think it's possible, if someone picks up the Buell pieces.



A few weeks after I returned to the states from Greece, I had the pleasure to meet and talk with Stuart Garner, the new owner of Norton Motorcycles. I met him at South Bay Triumph the day after he and Matt Capri returned from the Bonneville Salt Flats in their quest to establish a few new records with some of Matts higher-performace built Bonnies, AND with Garner's Norton Rotary bike.

Stuart and I talked at a length of about 30 minutes about his acquisition of Norton from Kenny Dreer, and also his business model to revive Norton once again, among many other topics related to the field of motorcycles.

Matt is now supposedly inked in as his main american distributor for this Norton venture, BTW.

Stuart's idea is to keep his production numbers reasonably small and basically just to sell them in his home market of england right out of his factory, and with basically no dealer network over there. He seems to think that this is the best way to be successful in this smaller "niche" motorcycle market.

And so, I wonder if Erik Buell would or could restructures his company in such or similar a manner, if perhaps he could then make a good of it once again?

(whatcha think???)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)