VTwin Manufacturing
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Road Warrior
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VTwin Manufacturing
Have any of you Sporty guys bought and put on any parts or accessories from VTwin manufacturing? I know they aftermarket, but that don't mean they are necessarily bad, just wondering. Cheaper than HD parts, wondering about their quality and finish. Chime in please if you have. Thanks.
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From: Texas! Ya mean there's someplace else?
F*ck V-Twin, aka Taiwan Tedd. He rips off designs from the inventors, then has the stuff made in China, etc. Sometimes changes the original just enough to avoid a patent infringement. Screw him and his company!
Some stuff is OK in quality, and some is downright dangerous. I have had the distinct displeasure of having several pieces of his crappy **** fall apart, placing my life in danger. Nothing like having a clutch pedal fall off a bike, cable still attached, because of a weld that failed.
Some stuff is OK in quality, and some is downright dangerous. I have had the distinct displeasure of having several pieces of his crappy **** fall apart, placing my life in danger. Nothing like having a clutch pedal fall off a bike, cable still attached, because of a weld that failed.
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Yea I just found out about them doing that while searching just now for my mirrors. I'm not gonna lie, I like the mirrors I got but if I had known they were made by them and I had known they were ripping off other companies and having replicas of the more expensive parts made overseas I may not have bought them.
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Road Warrior
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After reading that piece about him ripping off americans and having foreign companys making knockoffs, I can not in good conscience buy from them now. Being a proud working union blue collar american who has seen my own industry hurt by cheap foreign labor,i wont give them my money. Lot of americans only care how much money they are gonna save by buying import products. Those same americans blame unions for driving wages so high that american products are significantly higher than foreign made products and have jobs overseas. The truth is that companys wouldnt use foreign labor if patriotic americans stood by their flag. If we as citizens boycotted companys that produce their goods by way of foreign labor, those companys would abandon that practice and came back home to employ americans. So to those who say, hell im gonna save a buck and buy foreign, why dont you move overseas. See if you can afford their products then.
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Road Warrior
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i will never buy v-twin again..i have v-twin chrome plated(garbage) clutch and brake levers that after only 3 months started to pit..i left them on and they are totally fubar at this point..they are a little over a year old,and everyone who looks at my bike has to point it out, when i get a minute ill put the stock polished ones back on..and i think my mirrors are v-twin also,,they are pitting as well after only a year..my bike is garage kept in a heated dry environment and i wash and polish the bike often..
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