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Couldn't agree more bang on there
Couldn't agree more bang on there
hcigar mods and other clones
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Successful motorbike manufacturers have cottoned on years ago to the fact that if they included an entry level machine in their range they could offer people a way in to the brand and use it as a tool to promote brand loyalty. Triumph and Harley a prime examples. No one thinks that the 883 is anything other than a pretty limited machine but it has a V-twin and Harley's badge slapped on the side...and they sell. It's build to a budget and mass produced, and they tinker with extras on it to refresh the model and offer custom versions.
There is nothing to stop a high-end mod maker contracting a manufacturing facility to do the same and releasing a mass market version of a Chi-You or somesuch. The fact that they don't creates this vacuum which China has been all-too happy to fill. Mod makers sell out of their entire stock each production run and have waiting lists from here to Wazoo.
Music distributors have been harping on about illegal downloads killing off sales, they haven't - they have encouraged them. As people accessed a far higher range of music it stimulated interest in buying in other hitherto untried genres.
Being a growing market and an infant one at that requires designers and manufacturers to think longer term than just the next machine run or 'but that's my brand name'.
This doesn't need laws, it doesn't need whinging, it needs creative thinking and strategic planning. It needs can-do attitudes not whiny "it's not fair"s.
There is nothing to stop a high-end mod maker contracting a manufacturing facility to do the same and releasing a mass market version of a Chi-You or somesuch. The fact that they don't creates this vacuum which China has been all-too happy to fill. Mod makers sell out of their entire stock each production run and have waiting lists from here to Wazoo.
Music distributors have been harping on about illegal downloads killing off sales, they haven't - they have encouraged them. As people accessed a far higher range of music it stimulated interest in buying in other hitherto untried genres.
Being a growing market and an infant one at that requires designers and manufacturers to think longer term than just the next machine run or 'but that's my brand name'.
This doesn't need laws, it doesn't need whinging, it needs creative thinking and strategic planning. It needs can-do attitudes not whiny "it's not fair"s.
It was this bit which pricked my ears...
[FONT="]Im also hearing there is a steam turbine clone coming. [/FONT]
[FONT="]... but more on that later
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Is it just me or does that picture make the finish look horrible? I like the look of the chi you clone better
Is it just me or does that picture make the finish look horrible? I like the look of the chi you clone better
I get the feeling that isn't the finished product, plus etchings to go on etc, nice of them to have cloned the vapour wall edition I've been after for ages pmsl
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Lmao yes I'm sure we will see finished products soon
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Well if the chi is anything to go by I'll probably have one
Not to sure about the finish in the pic though :/
Not to sure about the finish in the pic though :/
Grainy ass pic, they will be fine I'm sure
or nothing a bit of spit and polish won't cureSimilar threads
