S1 E10 - Are there too many types of motorcycles?

Highside/Lowside - A Motorcycle Podcast

RevZilla

Motorcycles, Motorcyclenews, Leisure, Automotive, Revzilla

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The amount of motorcycle styles available to riders is exploding. But is that a good thing? Are riders better off because of the options available to them, or are we regressing in our ability to craft our own motorcycles into the customized machines we adore? It's something that the HS/LS guys have thought a lot about, and in this episode they delve into the "why" of segmentation proliferation, as well as look to the future for what it means to the industry as a whole.

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0:00.0	Are you trying to race Sunday?
0:09.0	Are you trying to race Sunday?
0:10.0	You want to race dirt bikes on Sunday?
0:12.0	What race is Sunday? Stump to race dirt bikes on Sunday?
0:13.0	Stump Jumper.
0:14.0	Ooh, I heard that one's pretty wild.
0:16.0	Well, who wants to race motorcycles at a not wild race?
0:21.0	A lot of stumps to jump.
0:22.0	Howdy. Welcome back to another episode of Highside,
0:24.8	low side. I'm Lem joined today by Spurge and Joe. And today we have a topic on deck that
0:31.5	affects each and every motorcyclist, and that's the topic of specialization.
0:36.0	We're talking about bike segmentation.
0:38.0	Really, that segmentation affects all of us throughout history depends really the when your bike is from.
0:43.1	When your motorcycle actually hails from,
0:45.6	you know, I think is really gonna determine
0:47.2	how into this topic you might just be.
0:49.7	Let me just get like a quick couple sentences
0:51.5	from you on specialization. How much
0:54.2	differentiation between models is enough? How much is too much? Is this is this
0:58.6	segmentation we're seeing helping or hurting things? I think all motorcycles are
1:01.3	special. Is that is we're talking about or I mean I think I
1:07.0	think when we look at specialization what really what we're talking about is you know
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