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[Steve G.]

 More MV

[Twisted_Twin]

Someone named a motorcycle Ciulator? Like See-you-later? That's brilliant!

Better than the Korean bicycle tires I had from Dae Yung

[Steve G.]

  Yup, that’s exactly what they named it after, “See ya later”.

[kilowop]

In all my years of riding here, in the USA, in England or in New Zealand, I have yet to see a real Live MV Augusta on the road. Too expensive to risk a "get-off" or theft?

[Steve G.]

  I guy I know from the BMOC bought a new 2004 MV Brutale 750 from a dealer in Burlington, WA, during a time when there was a huge hole in the Canadian RIV inclusion list, very reasonable prices actually. Of course Cdn direct purchase, the prices are insane. They have a model that $99,900.
  I toured the factory 15 yrs ago, just after Harley Davidson sold it for 1$ Dollar back to Mr. Castiglioni. They had tons of cash, the production line was casual to outright lazy.

[kilowop]

Italian factories....not known for their productivity in some cases. 

[Twisted_Twin]

Italian factories....not known for their productivity in some cases. 

I worked with a guy who was from the USSR. Before it fell apart.

We had some interesting conversations about how things worked under communism.

I asked him about how things got made in Russia and if the quality was really as bad as we are led to believe in North America.

His response was: "Say you work in a factory that makes chairs and you have a quota of 30 chairs per month. If you're smart, you work easy and make one chair a day for 30 days. But you're actually lazy so instead of making one chair a day, you drink vodka every day for 28 days, then try to make 30 chairs in 2 days."

[Steve G.]

  I worked  with a fellow, Manfred, who escaped former East Germany. He worked at the Trabant car factory.  He spent most of the time drinking coffee with the rest of the crew, and carving their initials in every part of the factory, waiting for bulk materials, and waiting for equipment to be fixed. Utter cluster-####.

[hardrockminer]