Every time I read some story about "industrial espionage", line cloning is ever declared, fashionable trends followed by manufacturers of motorcycles, I always do some good laugh.
the oldest story in the world: you have a great I copy the idea and you (not to be confused with the oldest profession in the world that maybe we like even more).
The Japanese for years have been marked as a "carbon copy" of the motorcycle market, and this assertion is based, at least in the early stages of production on a global scale but are not the only ones who have fallen into the mechanism of little originality.
Let us tell it like it is: If something becomes fashionable and people like the maker of bike do you say "ok, that we care, let us also have a lot of money ready," and while the passionate rants on various zozzure produced less picky you might be in the dealership and buy. The premise was
due because there is an explanation for every move and I did not want to "tarnish" without giving an accurate picture.
But now comes the key to the problem. Phenomenon "Custom" 80 years.
copy the Japanese Americans. The Italians copied the Japanese.
Yeah, that's right dear children, because since 1980 for the next decade custom bikes get a major slice of the market and we all throw themselves headlong at.
Originators as well all know living in the U.S. so to be absolutely faithful to the lines must have a twin available.
Honda and Yamaha respectively with the Shadow 1100 and the XV 1000 they're doing giving birth to a V-twin longitudinal parameters very faithful to the Americans. In Italy
Moto Morini is the most favored with its V-twin at 72 °. Moto Guzzi and Ducati are disadvantaged: the home of Ducati Motor has a virtually 90 ° L while the Mandello del Lario has available a 90 ° V-twin but cross. This does not discourage
and here come the Ducati Indiana (available in three displacements 350,600,750), Morini Excalibur (350 and 500 ... and with a name ca * zo!), Moto Guzzi Nevada (350,500,650,750).
As we all know the fate of the various houses were different, and fortunately Ducati Morini and have abandoned the ways of the custom. Moto Guzzi, which in my view was the only one to produce decent bike on this thread, juggles still weak.
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