Paul, people with money buy what they want. Some even buy and ride Moto Guzzis - sigh. Others buy a new iPhone when they only got their last one less than 6 months ago. Others just 'waste' their money on travel.
The engineer creates, the marketer sells, the passionate buy this kind of stuff.
Others are just sensible and buy cheap and practical.
If the British motorcycle industry had let people dream and create and then let them build it they (the companies) might have still been around today.
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