Sad to say but in our location, yes. Maybe some other place they sold well. It does explain why the short run though. Let's see, we liked FT500's and Sabre's, the CB1100F and a few other losers from that period. In the big picture, we won. Which ones turned out to be really great motorcycles ? When I ride my 700, I don't see any of those Interceptors. At the time (1984) the magazines made some snide remarks about the 700s being a holdover from the Kawasaki GPZ's. So it was a dated design in styling. The VF7500F looked new and fast. An off-the-showroom-floor cafe racer. It didn't matter that they had huge maintenance costs. They became obsolete with the Hurricanes and Ninja's. The cost of cool is very high. What was hot is not.
--- On Sun, 6/21/09, Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dennis <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: About the age of tires To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:57 PM Message Wow, So you are saying that these 700SC's that some of us love so much were dogs on the showroom floor when they were new? I'd have never guessed that. They just look so cool - everything else good about them aside. I'd have thought they would have sold well. Strange world. Dennis G. - Seattle -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Hammerl Sent: 21 June, 2009 18:52 To: [email protected] Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: About the age of tires Yes, I don't know if every manufacturer is complying. Since all that went down, we decided not to inventory many tires. The distribution network responded by being firstest, fastest so to get your business. It was an answer anyway. Now most everything is ordered. Stock some popular stuff. It's a weird business, the stuff that effects it and how you plan. If the staff in the garage likes a new model, the boss won't order more than the minimum of that. That's 'cause we liked some showroom losers. (CB700s for one) We sold ten Interceptors for each one of those. I bought my new one as a left over in '87. --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dennis <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: About the age of tires To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:11 PM Dennis H., In the ABC piece, they said there are numbers on car tires that you can use to tell when the tire was made. Are there numbers on motorcycle tires that you can look at to determine when the tire was made? Dennis G. - Seattle -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Hammerl Sent: 21 June, 2009 17:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: About the age of tires For whatever it's worth, how tires have aged is quite important to me. The details aren't all that important but if I can cut a tire with a thumbnail and there are no cracks, I'll ride it. The OEM tires age fast, some premium tires age slowly. They're very soft to start with. I go with instinct mostly, it's not easy to describe. When in doubt, throw it out. New tires are slippery, most folks don't know how long it takes to scuff 'em. --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dennis <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] About the age of tires To: [email protected] Cc: "'Alistair J. Crerar'" <[email protected]>, "Ed Fitzgerald (home)" <[email protected]>, "Jon Richardson (Home)" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 4:06 PM There's an article on-line on ABC about aged automobile tires being sold 'as new'and how dangerous they can be. It's an interesting and scary story since apparently no one has been paying attention to this issue. Click the following link and you can watch the story. http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897 This has got me wondering about motorcycle tires and if they have the same issues. Dennis H., do you have any wisdom to share with us on this issue given all your years working in dealerships? Dennis G. - Seattle - '85 & '86 CB700SC --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
