originaldirt
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- Apr 25, 2000
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My buddy who works at the local Suzuki dealership says that the Suzuki DM who just returned from the June Suz/DM meeting told his boss that Suzuki now has roughly 1100 dealers, but they expect to be down to around 900 by 2011. If that is true, then they expect to lose about 20% of their existing dealers over the Winter.
There have already been a significant number of shop closings and consolidations in my region, so this could get serious. We need to support our local shops and forgo the shop on the internet for a while or we too are going to suffer.
The O.E.M.'s better get on with production and delivery of 2011 machines soon in every brand if they want to save their dealer network and customer base. I have several friends who wanted to buy a new bike this year and couldn't find one so they got out of motorcycling, maybe permenantly by spending money on new hobbies and interests.
What do you guys and gals think about the situation?
There have already been a significant number of shop closings and consolidations in my region, so this could get serious. We need to support our local shops and forgo the shop on the internet for a while or we too are going to suffer.
The O.E.M.'s better get on with production and delivery of 2011 machines soon in every brand if they want to save their dealer network and customer base. I have several friends who wanted to buy a new bike this year and couldn't find one so they got out of motorcycling, maybe permenantly by spending money on new hobbies and interests.
What do you guys and gals think about the situation?