KTM-Parts/BongoUS warning

[White trash]

its not just KTM that have these problems, the whole industry has had a better buy price for the states and since the downturn the the US, their retailers have looked elsewhere to keep sales up,

Granted. But the Japanses manufacturers don't seem to give a rats whereas at least KTM are making an effort to protect all of their worldwide dealers. For that reason, when I finally stump up the cash for my own dirt bike, it'll be orange.

[PeeJay]

Thanks for your question.

Once at school. a guy told me I had no idea about motorbikes, despite me clearly riding on the back of a really sweet moped to and from school every day. Simply because he was a couple of years ahead of me, I decided to teach him a lesson or two. So over the winter, I carefully deconstructed my bike in a neighbour of my dads friends garage. Religiously cleaning every nut, bolt and part. I spent two weeks of my school holidays painstakingly cleaning and sanding back the frame, ensuring every burr and high spot was flatened to perfection. We then painted the frame gloss black, I wanted to go purple because Purple Rain was a hit at the time but Mervin convinced me black was the action and that only a Honda rider would own a bike with a purple frame. After conceeding that little fau parx in motorcylce fashion, we lovingly pieced together my restored bike, even drilling and re-riveting the original frame tags to ensure no overspray ensued, rechroming the tank badges and replacing every bearing and seal that we could find. Eventually, after 6 long Dunedin winter months, the time had come to rebirth the beast and show the world that I did in fact know something about motorbikes. We had a freshly charged, new battery from McIver and Veitch installed, new fuses, new paint and a shitload of enthusiasim. It was the sweetest Suzuki A50 you ever saw. I wheeled it out of the garage, switched on the ignition and kicked my heart out. Nothing. Not even a piss poor attempt at firing. Mervin is bigger than me so he pushed me off the bike and furiously kicked the shit out of it in a way only a Taekwando black belt, cowboy boot wearing, Charlie Pride imitating kareoke star can.

Nothing.

Took us another week to discover that I'd installed the power band backwards. I guess I did know fuck all about bikes.

As for International freight. After deciding on a career change due to stress, a KBer kindly offered me an entry level job in an international freight forwarding warehouse in their 3PL department (that's Third Party Logisitics for all you interested onlookers not yet bored to tears). I was responsible for collecting wholesale Christian Dior orders from the shelves and packing them in boxes, then sending them off to retailers who (probably) sold them to overweight house wifes who's husbands thought they needed more expensive perfumes to make them slightly more attractive. After a month of this highly stressfull workload, my talents in accurately choosing the correct lipstick to match the order form were clear (my Honda riding buddies made it easy) I was moved to the "hard warehouse" for more difficult duties. These included more manly freight forwarding procedures such as packing and unpacking 40' containers, loading and unloading airfreight units and calculating weekly consolidation loads for airfreight of up to 30T, 120CBM (CuBic Meters Noel) between Auckland and Sydney. So proficient in our loading and space bookings weekly were we, that FedEx (that's Federal Express) contacted us to handle THEIR weekly booking. Six months later, after displaying above average skills with a calculator, I was once again promoted. This time to Key Account Exectutive, Oil and Gas. You may have heard of a little thing on the Taranaki south coast by the name of Kupe Oil and Gas field ? Have a look at the picture of the site. 98% of the shit you can see, I put there. I had three charter vessels, and four part charters into Port Taranaki along with numerous part charter airfreight shipments into Auckland and carefull liasing with JD Hickman to ensure that all freight was on site, on time. The comissioning partner for the plant build was Technip, contracted by Origin Energy. They chose me to handle the logistics. Technip's on site logistics manager was Geoff Huddy, you're more than welcome to call him for a reference if you wish. BTW, Kupe was comissioned prior to deadline and under budget. As you pay taxes (I hope) you're a shareholder in Origin Energy. You're welcome.

May of heard of a little place just south of Whangarei called Marsden Point? Huge oil refinery there. Run by The New Zealand Refining Comapny. Only refinery in NZ it so happens, almost one of the most efficient in the world. They have a huge shut down there every two years, normally stretching for two weeks in which they burn, yes BURN over a million USD per day of shut. Guess who they call to make sure all their shut down freight is on site when they need it? Bet ya can't....... We're talking sixty 40' containers of precious metal catalyst here, values at over $130M. Still can't guess? Same guy also looked after all their day to day cargo and freight requirements for operations AND all the freight for the ambitious Point Forward Project, halfway to completion. Your contact there is Greg Johns if you need to ask for anyone.

Something eles I learnt at school from that 6 year old in 5th form, choose your battles wisely.

There's a couple of KBers you can ask if you want further recomendation as to my international freight expertise, PM me for details.

Now, where's my new RM powerband for the MVX..............

What are you doing sitting here in NZ?
A man of your awesome skills would be in high demand o'seas
Being able to setup 98% of a refinery yourself is an incredible achievement.
Many moons ago I worked on a couple of refinery projects in the Middle East
There were thousands of people involved with getting the places up and running.
Last one was 15 years ago, there were still thousands involved and the project overan $$$ and time
We could have done with you. Name your own price considering the dollars involved

[Crasherfromwayback]

I'm off to bait some Honda riding homos...........

What you gonna 'bait' em with mate? Your arse I bet.

[vazza]

WALL OF USELESS TEXT

I'm not even going to bother reading that shit.

It's obvious you don't have experience in small item international shipping. $120 is blatantly overpriced and everyone knows it.

Using a shipping forwarding company is going to tear you a new asshole regardless, they have to make their money somehow.(Hence the ripoff price) Keep to online stores that ship their own items.

[White trash]

What are you doing sitting here in NZ?
A man of your awesome skills would be in high demand o'seas
Being able to setup 98% of a refinery yourself is an incredible achievement.
Many moons ago I worked on a couple of refinery projects in the Middle East
There were thousands of people involved with getting the places up and running.
Last one was 15 years ago, there were still thousands involved and the project overan $$$ and time
We could have done with you. Name your own price considering the dollars involved

I'm not even going to bother reading that shit.

It's obvious you don't have experience in small item international shipping. $120 is blatantly overpriced and everyone knows it.

Using a shipping forwarding company is going to tear you a new asshole regardless, they have to make their money somehow.(Hence the ripoff price) Keep to online stores that ship their own items.

Fuck you guys have an "O" for Oarsome sense of humour

[Crasherfromwayback]

Jesus you KTM guys are far too easy to get along with.
.

You have no idea.

Get clued up on international shipping more.

Fuck you guys have an "O" for Oarsome sense of humour

Uh oh...the honeymoon is over...

[scott411]

Granted. But the Japanses manufacturers don't seem to give a rats whereas at least KTM are making an effort to protect all of their worldwide dealers. For that reason, when I finally stump up the cash for my own dirt bike, it'll be orange.

are they really fixing the problem tho, or just hiding it? as a dealer I can see that they are trying,

you can still get parts cheaper by either getting a mate in the states to send it, or go through a shipping company, the US price has not got dearer, or the normal nz price cheaper,

[IIIRII]

I dont understand the reference to Marsden Point, all I get out of it is that you are 10 rungs down the ladder from Noobies Uncle ...
Was that your point ?

Should I talk about my former involvment with NZ Steel Shuts then ?
In particular Primary plants ?
Unlikely I would because no matter how you read it , it would sound silly, self gratifying and all that stuff...

??
And generally dumb ....

[vazza]

Fuck you guys have an "O" for Oarsome sense of humour

Your attempt at trolling is pretty shit