For all you Triumph doubters out there

[Paul in NZ]

Well for the 3 people that actually read a motorcycle thread on KB instead of bashing Ed or David bain MIGHT just remember the great triuph glove scadal....

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1130582098

WELL..... I registered my thoughts on Triumph NZ website AND the importer actually rang me about this.. Yes over some gloves....

Actually - I was bloody impressed with the attitude..... I may even have to admit I have been wrong about triumph NZ - results later

[blackdog]

Good results I hope.

Lucky they weren't 'prilly ones I guess.

[AllanB]

The gloves may have been effected by the battery you were using .......

[Flip]

Well I have been waiting for a pile of parts for my Triumph Trophy 1200 for 6 years. Good luck with the gloves, don't do what I did and pay for them until you see them...............

[AllanB]

Well I have been waiting for a pile of parts for my Triumph Trophy 1200 for 6 years. Good luck with the gloves, don't do what I did and pay for them until you see them...............

You will get a letter from them in a couple of years stating that the parts you have ordered are now obsolete ..........

[Flip]

You will get a letter from them in a couple of years stating that the parts you have ordered are now obsolete ..........

IMHO its Triumph to me who is Obsolete. I have had better service from the Lifan/Shineray agent, much better.

[Paul in NZ]

The gloves may have been effected by the battery you were using .......

Nah - Robin was using them when he washed Ed's battery

[avgas]

Well I have been waiting for a pile of parts for my Triumph Trophy 1200 for 6 years. Good luck with the gloves, don't do what I did and pay for them until you see them...............

I registered my thoughts on Triumph NZ website AND the importer actually rang me about this..

Don't expect much more than that. Somehow 6 fairing clips @ $60 each never made it too us.
Eggs aren't chickens, don't count them.

[gammaguy]

Last I heard Triumph were imported by the lumbering behemoth of the beckhaus empire,who import just about every brand of everything motorcycle or power sport related in enzed.

If the monopolies commission could be bothered looking into this interesting situation they would probably find that the economies of scale in the nz motorcycle industry,as compared to ,say,Indonesia(where they sell 800 new motorcycles PER DAY)mean that the only way to make money out of the brands they sell is the way it is now.

Don't kid yourselves,the nz market is only slightly more important to the factories than what they had for lunch yesterday,and I venture that if it was not for the farm market there would hardly be an industry in nz at all.

Which all boils down to the way it is ain't gonna be changing anytime soon,I mean let's face it,who else would like to take over if Beckhaus Inc. suddenly said goodbye?

For a consumer to be king there needs to be competition,and in the niche market that is low volume motorcycle sales in new Zealand,there is precious little of that.

[MrKiwi]

True the Beckhaus family have the distributor rights to a range of marques, but last time I looked Honda, Suzuki, KTM, Kawasaki, Ducati, and Harley-Davidson are all with separate distributors. Seems to me that there is still competition in the market place.