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    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Read the comments on the youtube page.
    I went to, but 300 + comments from squidlys? No thanks. Bit of a stretch to claim the suit is a knock off because the guy comes from Taiwan, but hey it's the internets so it must be true.
    Watched the vid a half dozen times. I see no suit fail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skippa1 View Post
    I went to, but 300 + comments from squidlys? No thanks. Bit of a stretch to claim the suit is a knock off because the guy comes from Taiwan, but hey it's the internets so it must be true.
    Watched the vid a half dozen times. I see no suit fail.
    I meant read the description on the video. Which I also quoted at the start of page 2.

    Rider visiting from Taiwan gets to fully experience the famous turn that eats bikes most weekends. Fortunately just minor road rash and damage to a borrowed relatives R1. Also note, Alpine Stars textile suite he wore was worthless, ripped at seems, maybe a knock off, what textile suite comes with knee sliders?
    Try read that again.

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    Hmmmmmmm, fella was in for a big surprise when he thought an R1 wouldn't handle any differently from the scooter he rode in Taiwan, aye?

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    Lucky to have got away with it a few times first.
    Sadly, he probably thought he was doing it right because he got away with it a few times first, aye?


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    To me it's intuitively obvious that jumping on and off the throttle is going to be a bad idea, and he was doing it in an almost comical way.
    Why, he does that on his moped back home and it moves fine! And the sound as a result drives the girls crazy!
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    Quote Originally Posted by skippa1 View Post
    Bit of a stretch to claim the suit is a knock off because the guy comes from Taiwan,
    Why? There is a huge industry in Asia specialising in selling knock-offs. Shops full of movie DVDs, the quality can be crap but they are cheap. Clothing, when in Malaysia for testing this year Alex Briggs posted a photo of a shop selling rip-off T shirts, including his own then very recent "Wrench Racer" brand.

    To be specific I didn't claim it was a knock off, just that "the odds were strong". And with the size of the counterfeit clothing industry in Asia that's not a psrticularly rash statement. Well, not by KB standards
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    [QUOTE=pritch;1130711127And with the size of the counterfeit clothing industry in Asia that's not a psrticularly rash statement.[/QUOTE]

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    There is a huge industry in Asia specialising in selling knock-offs. Shops full of movie DVDs, the quality can be crap but they are cheap. Clothing, when in Malaysia for testing this year Alex Briggs posted a photo of a shop selling rip-off T shirts, including his own then very recent "Wrench Racer" brand.
    I went to Sepang a few years back and got a good deal on an Alpinestar t-shirt, from a shop at the circuit no less. It wasn't until later that I realised the letter S was missing.

    And it shrank in the wash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    I meant read the description on the video. Which I also quoted at the start of page 2.



    Try read that again.
    Hey, absolutely, I didn't see that. If it's on the internet it must be right......sorry

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Why? There is a huge industry in Asia specialising in selling knock-offs. Shops full of movie DVDs, the quality can be crap but they are cheap. Clothing, when in Malaysia for testing this year Alex Briggs posted a photo of a shop selling rip-off T shirts, including his own then very recent "Wrench Racer" brand.

    To be specific I didn't claim it was a knock off, just that "the odds were strong". And with the size of the counterfeit clothing industry in Asia that's not a psrticularly rash statement. Well, not by KB standards
    Even the genuine articles are made in Asia, does that make them knock offs? I don't care anyway, I just think that it's sensationalism based on assumption. But go ahead, fill your boots

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    Quote Originally Posted by skippa1 View Post
    Even the genuine articles are made in Asia, does that make them knock offs? I don't care anyway, I just think that it's sensationalism based on assumption. But go ahead, fill your boots
    Only an idiot would consider ... a company that is contracted (and paid) to manufacture/supply a product ... to be "Knockoffs" simply because of the region that company was situated in.

    After having spent many years in that region ... I know that the counterfeit industry is not only alive and well ... but probably make more items than the company's licensed to produce them (in whatever country that is). And on a scale unimagined by most that have not been to the region.

    And I'm willing to bet ... many "Big Note" companies wish it WAS sensationalism ... because they loose billions to that industry annually.

    Don't believe me ??? ... I don't care ... but continue with your delusions anyway ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    Only an idiot would consider ... a company that is contracted (and paid) to manufacture/supply a product ... to be "Knockoffs" simply because of the region that company was situated in.

    After having spent many years in that region ... I know that the counterfeit industry is not only alive and well ... but probably make more items than the company's licensed to produce them (in whatever country that is). And on a scale unimagined by most that have not been to the region.

    And I'm willing to bet ... many "Big Note" companies wish it WAS sensationalism ... because they loose billions to that industry annually.

    Don't believe me ??? ... I don't care ... but continue with your delusions anyway ...
    I don't doubt there are heaps of knockoffs, I have travelled extensively myself for pleasure and business, but what the fuckin hell are you blurting about? How do you make the connection between the guy dropping his bike and his safety gear beingcounterfeit? Holy shit, you guys want to get out a bit.....but again, it's on the youtube, it must be true.

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    That bike looks counterfeit...stickers are 5 degrees off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    It wasn't until later that I realised the letter S was missing.
    Superman took it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by skippa1 View Post
    I don't doubt there are heaps of knockoffs, I have travelled extensively myself for pleasure and business, but what the fuckin hell are you blurting about? How do you make the connection between the guy dropping his bike and his safety gear beingcounterfeit? Holy shit, you guys want to get out a bit.....but again, it's on the youtube, it must be true.
    Probably because Alpinestars don't make a textile suit with knee sliders

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    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Probably because Alpinestars don't make a textile suit with knee sliders
    Are you really sure about that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Probably because Alpinestars don't make a textile suit with knee sliders
    They do pants,
    http://www.revzilla.com/product/alpi...-textile-pants

    are you sure it was a one piece, or a two piece zipped together? What does the internet say?

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