Suzuki to cancel up to 200 dealer contracts

[user 31223]

https://blog.motorcycle.com/2013/03/21/manufacturers/suzuki/suzuki-to-trim-us-powersports-dealership-network/

Hope this doesn't affect any of the dealers selling Yamaha too in any material way

 

[dcarver]

I didn't realize Suzuki was in chapter 11.

 

[Greg 03]

Hope they start with the Springfield, MO shop... worst ever!

 

[garyahouse]

Glad I ride a Yamaha. As much as we moaned and groaned about WHEN we'd see an updated FJR, timing and frugality are peramount in motorsports. Yamaha is fairly conservative when it comes to their decisions about updates to their product line. If yer careful with the bottom line, you won't have to shut down the production line. I wish Suzuki all the best.

Gary

darksider #44

 

[blassoff]

Yea, I believe Suzuki has been "in chapter" for a while. Last I heard they were coming out of it and just released a bunch of updated models.

I've spent most of my money with the big three, best of luck to Suzi and their riders.

 

[Spud]

I hope they hang in there. Competition is good. I've always liked their bikes and have owned a few, including the Bandit 1200 that got me into sport-touring and led to the FJR. I see tons of people touring out here on V-Stroms. I always thought they would eventually make a 'busa based tourer, like Kawi did with the Zx14/concours, but they never did...

 

[canucklehead-biker]

Hope this doesn't impact the Canuck operations....

Griff

 

[dcarver]

My Suzuki relationship is weird. I have always looked at Suzooks as being the lower 33% of the big 3.

My DL650 is an example.

Stamped, crude, sloppy welds, 1970 clutch actuation methods, and the list goes on and on.

But the darn thing just runs and runs and runs, no matter how bad I abuse her.

When the FJR was throwing princess-level hissy fits, it was Wabs, the DL650 I rode to Canada.

And Death Valley.

And to Borrego Springs.

Based on that, I hope Soozie-Q corp gets their act together and continues to make 'cheap' bikes that just run and run.

 

[canucklehead-biker]

My Suzuki relationship is weird. I have always looked at Suzooks as being the lower 33% of the big 3. My DL650 is an example.

Stamped, crude, sloppy welds, 1970 clutch actuation methods, and the list goes on and on.

But the darn thing just runs and runs and runs, no matter how bad I abuse her.

When the FJR was throwing princess-level hissy fits, it was Wabs, the DL650 I rode to Canada.

And Death Valley.

And to Borrego Springs.

Based on that, I hope Soozie-Q corp gets their act together and continues to make 'cheap' bikes that just run and run.

Amen brother.

I've got a GS500E I'm re-building for my youngest son, and wife is working on her second Zook (having just upgraded from a little S40 (aka 650 Savage) to a C50. Good bikes all. And the 'Strom is about the best all around bike out there these days...

Griff

 

[Fred W]

+1 on the good hopes for 'zooki.

I love my Man-strom (the big boy has a hydraulic clutch, Don) although I do appreciate it is a bit on the "rustic" side. If I was going to buy another bike of that type today I'd be tempted by the Gen II Wee-strom. It really is the "jacknife" bike that does everything reasonably well, and is dead nuts reliable. And the Gen 2's aren't quite so stylistically abhorrent.

I mean think about it, what other bikes are there in that category that compare? There are more capable off roaders, and more capable on-roaders, but for a do-it-all bike at a reasonable cost it's hard to beat. Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki don't have one. Closest is the KLR and that is biased way down in the on-road category.