| Author | Message | ||
     Oldog |
What Rat Said in spaids! GO EBR !!!! | ||
| D_adams |
They build an _average_ 14500 bikes/mopeds per DAY. They SOLD 5.3 MILLION units last year? Sure, it was mopeds and motorcycles, but it's still all 2 wheeled vehicles. HD SOLD 235,000 units for the YEAR I think. That makes for an average of 644 per DAY for HD to put out. This of course assumes the employees work 365 days a year. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
"They build an _average_ 14500 bikes/mopeds per DAY. They SOLD 5.3 MILLION units last year? Sure, it was mopeds and motorcycles, but it's still all 2 wheeled vehicles. HD SOLD 235,000 units for the YEAR I think. That makes for an average of 644 per DAY for HD to put out. This of course assumes the employees work 365 days a year." thank you for backing me up  I said it in another thread, they are producing an incredible amount of vehicles, mind boggling actually - 14k a day! But that just backs up what you quoted me. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
And Court - how about that "RS1200" story you teased, can you at least give hint to which bike it was? | ||
| Ulyranger |
EBR = Skunk Works is an excellent analogy if this all works out right.....excellent for EBR and for the future products they will produce that is. | ||
| Hughlysses |
This is precisely, on a much larger scale, what happened when a friend who needed work and income to fund his company did the entire design for a foreign company for a bike that would later become an icon. Court- you've alluded to this before. Just to be clear, are you saying that a certain mechanical engineer originally from Pennsylvania designed a motorcycle for a non-American motorcycle company which is currently up for sale, and the name of that iconic motorcycle relates to various science fiction movies from the 1950's?   | ||
| Cowboy |
damn that is a lot of wheels --just think how much more they could produce if they has a united auto workers union. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Man, this story is really burning up the internet. I just googled "Hero Buell EBR motorcycles" and there have been 129 new stories in the last hour (8:28 AM EDT). | ||
| Reepicheep |
Uh, you mean like Rotax, which is part of Bombadier, which owns Victory?  | ||
| Danger_dave |
Polaris owns Victory. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Thanks Dave! All those Canadians look alike to me. I was wrong, I thought Victory was owned by Polaris, which was part of the BRP umbrella. Looks like they aren't, BRP owns Cam Am. | ||
| Court |
Does GM still own Saab? . . . .If I remember . . .they got rid of it about the time Volkswagen bought Porsche last year to get access to their Engineering and R&D capabilities . . . .Ford still owns Range Rover, right ? | ||
| Court |
And . . just what the heck is that Stupid Erik Buell up to . . . you goggle the rascal and the only thing I learn is that this is a guy who, as half the world was worrying what could go wrong if . . was diving in making things happen. We've got some budding college students here on Badweb . . just to give me a sense of perspective . . .how many patents did you have in your name when you graduated? Vision. Some get it. . some don't.   By the way . . . . if you need a project . . .see if you can determine, when Erik designed this public transportation system with a solar energy collection system . . .how many years later the word "Sustainability" would join the vernacular. | ||
| Guell |
Is your point that the land rover company is owned by an Indian car manufacturer? On the other hand I still wouldn't own a land rover or range rover after my parents disco 2 | ||
| Hughlysses |
Court- he really should talk to DLM about that solar steam storage project. They're into the stuff: http://www.dlm-ag.ch Steam storage locomotives ("fireless cookers") used to be pretty common in the U.S. where there was a readily available stationary steam source and/or where there were hazards due to sparks. They were used in Europe until much more recently. DLM has recently restored one of these locomotives to demonstrate its viability and has also built at least one steam storage road vehicle. Add solar to the mix and you could probably attract some serious interest. | ||
| Court |
This will help some . . . http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/this-p artnership-will-help-us-improve-our-own-capability -pawan-munjal/465571/ | ||
| Chauly |
"Thomas The Tank Engine" | ||
| Reepicheep |
 I want an EBR Hybrid dual sport!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>I thought Victory was owned by Polaris, which was part of the BRP umbrella.<< They all make Snowmobiles. Confuses everyone. :-) | ||
| Ridenusa4l |
this is incredible (just incase anyone is wondering i am trying to subscribe to all these threads that i can....always something a little different in each of them LOL) Jake | ||
| F22raptor |
I can hear it already..."You ride one of those corrie-grinders!" | ||
| Ulyranger |
"Thanks Dave! All those Canadians look alike to me." Canadian? I thought Polaris was primarily an American company... (not that there is anything wrong with Canandian products, Bombardier and BRP in particular is a fantastic company) | ||
| Hughlysses |
News Quote of the Day regarding the EBR/Hero alliance: "Popping the bulge rightly ascertained"?  I think something was lost in translation. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
"But what is more important is, they will help us in improving our own capability and enable us to become a self-sufficient engineering company." I'm surprised a company of their size doesn't already have a competent stand-alone engineering staff. Doesn't India possess more engineers than anyone else on the planet? | ||
| Syonyk |
How many of their engineers are properly creative, innovative, forward looking types? I'm sure they have some, but if their programmers are any guide, a lot of their people are good at implementing if they are told exactly what to implement, but are not that good at coming up with brand new ideas and ways of doing things. Raw numbers doesn't mean much. Honda has more engineers than EBR, but hasn't released anything nearly as radical recently. | ||
| Court |
>>>>I'm surprised a company of their size doesn't already have a competent stand-alone engineering staff. HERO has one of the best Engineering groups in the world. They were amazed at the things the folks at EBR are doing. You will be too. | ||
| Court |
For details about the Bombardier family . . . http://bombardier.com/en/corporate/about-us/leader ship-team/details?docID=0901260d8000f006 It's an amazing company and, not unlike HERO, still controlled by the founding family. | ||
| Whatever |
Head Explodey...  I don't think anyone can really wrap their head around this yet... I know I can't. It is going to be a really interesting year!!! | ||
| Xb1125r |
personally I like companies that are not owned by families. I like companies that allow their employees and public become owners of the companies. greedy bastards | ||
| Crackhead |
I prefer companies that are owned by their families, that means the company is in it for the long haul and not for the greedy wall street. |
