ordered parts from Zanotti
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Road Captain
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: katy, texas
ordered parts from Zanotti
Cause, Iwant to keep only American HD parts on my newAmerican made bike!!!!!!
So I ordered:
1. derby, timer, inspection, and fuel covers - Flames collection
2. chrome shifter peg cover - removed my rear shifter
3. floorboards - front and rear, and brake & shifter pads - Nostalgic collection
4. chrome piece for top of fairing
opened packaged to see nice looking HD boxes - and to my surprise - written on every box "MADE IN TAIWAN".
I love my new UC - but I took i alot of $hit from my HD buddies for years while riding metric bikes (last one I had was built/assembled in Marysville Ohio), only to find out we all have overseas/Metric/Asian components on our bikes.
learn something everyday....
So I ordered:
1. derby, timer, inspection, and fuel covers - Flames collection
2. chrome shifter peg cover - removed my rear shifter
3. floorboards - front and rear, and brake & shifter pads - Nostalgic collection
4. chrome piece for top of fairing
opened packaged to see nice looking HD boxes - and to my surprise - written on every box "MADE IN TAIWAN".
I love my new UC - but I took i alot of $hit from my HD buddies for years while riding metric bikes (last one I had was built/assembled in Marysville Ohio), only to find out we all have overseas/Metric/Asian components on our bikes.
learn something everyday....
Road Warrior
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,621
Likes: 1
From: Matthews, NC
RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
ORIGINAL: soon to be
Cause, Iwant to keep only American HD parts on my newAmerican made bike!!!!!!
So I ordered:
1. derby, timer, inspection, and fuel covers - Flames collection
2. chrome shifter peg cover - removed my rear shifter
3. floorboards - front and rear, and brake & shifter pads - Nostalgic collection
4. chrome piece for top of fairing
opened packaged to see nice looking HD boxes - and to my surprise - written on every box "MADE IN TAIWAN".
I love my new UC - but I took i alot of $hit from my HD buddies for years while riding metric bikes (last one I had was built/assembled in Marysville Ohio), only to find out we all have overseas/Metric/Asian components on our bikes.
learn something everyday....
Cause, Iwant to keep only American HD parts on my newAmerican made bike!!!!!!
So I ordered:
1. derby, timer, inspection, and fuel covers - Flames collection
2. chrome shifter peg cover - removed my rear shifter
3. floorboards - front and rear, and brake & shifter pads - Nostalgic collection
4. chrome piece for top of fairing
opened packaged to see nice looking HD boxes - and to my surprise - written on every box "MADE IN TAIWAN".
I love my new UC - but I took i alot of $hit from my HD buddies for years while riding metric bikes (last one I had was built/assembled in Marysville Ohio), only to find out we all have overseas/Metric/Asian components on our bikes.
learn something everyday....
Cruiser
Joined: Nov 2007
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RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
The problem is that once your competitiors source their competing product from somewhere that is much cheaper, you have to also, or lose business because of your higher prices. Taiwan is much better quality, generally, than Red China. I am a machine tool dealer and industrial plant liquidator and auctioneer, so have seen a lot of high-volume manufacturing businesses go overseas, and a lot come back now. What I said about having to source from overseas if your competitiors do is also true of businesses here that hire illegals. If your competitor uses them, he can undercut your costs and prices. You will have to use them also in order to remain competitive. It is a viscious circle we are going to have to learn to deal with.
Road Master
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 784
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From: Seattle, WA
RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
Yeah, I laugh when one of you Harley die hard guys post about buy American and my check goes to Harley in Milwaukee and not Japan. That may be so but then Harley writes a check to Japan for the parts that make up a portion of your "buy American" Harley.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,415
Likes: 18
From: Belmont, MI
RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
ORIGINAL: Sillverback
I wonder if metric bikes have USA parts on them?
I wonder if metric bikes have USA parts on them?
Rick
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Cruiser
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RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
Welcome to the Global economy.
Don't be mislead... It's always been about the $$$... not thelabel.
"Made in America" may be nice, but the American publicspends their hard-earned moneybased on what they can afford to save.
...and the American public invests deeply into American companies making a profit.
Like it or not... we (the consumer) created it. It's the side-effect of living in the Greatest Country in the World.
Don't be mislead... It's always been about the $$$... not thelabel.
"Made in America" may be nice, but the American publicspends their hard-earned moneybased on what they can afford to save.
...and the American public invests deeply into American companies making a profit.
Like it or not... we (the consumer) created it. It's the side-effect of living in the Greatest Country in the World.
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Road Warrior
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,373
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From: Northern Virginia
RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
"Made in America" many times means "Assembled in America" and does not mean that the parts assembled are 100% American.
The Honda Goldwingmay beJapanese but is"Made in America" or should I say "Assembled in America" in Ohio.
The Honda Goldwingmay beJapanese but is"Made in America" or should I say "Assembled in America" in Ohio.
Road Warrior
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,738
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From: St. Charles, IL
RE: ordered parts from Zanotti
The Wing, VTX and several other Honda bikes are not just assembled in Marysville. The engine is cast there,the internal engine parts are cast/molded there,the frame is made there, the tins are pressed there, the suspension is made across the street(HD shocks are made there too at the Showa plant ) brakes are made there and most of all the other metal pars are done there in Ohio. The electronics and a few other components are made overseas, just like the HD electronics are.