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Personally, I don't care where a bike is made as long as it is given reasonable quality control. I realise times have changed and in order to be competative, manufacturers have to go to areas of the world where overhead is cheaper. It doesn't make my bike any more or less whether a Welshman, Scot, Thai or 3 eyed irradiated freak from Chernobyl was on the assembly line as long as the QC was properly done.
I bought my Thrux because I like the lines, I can work on it and it's a size I'm comfortable with. Half the fun of owning a bike is wrenching on it, cleaning it and afterwards sitting back in the lounge chair, drinking a cold one and just looking at it. A bike is a piece of art and shouldn't be hidden by bodywork. I refuse to ride a sewing machine wrapped in plastic.
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I agree. of course we all would PREFER they were all made and assembled in GB 100%. But i bought mine for the same reasons as you. i have owned dozens of strat guitars which are also surrounded by the exact same controversy because there are dozens of models and at least 1/2 are made in other countries to one degree or another. usually just assembled and painted, but in the past some were fully made there such as the Japanese models. I've owned them all, and after a lifetime of owning dozens the 2 i finally kept after all the buying and selling was done and will follow me to the grave are a Japanese and a Mexican. they are the best of the many i have owned. I even sold my last American model that cost 3 times as much as either because it sounded like **** compared to both. So yeah, if the bike is going to be the same no matter where it's made, i'd prefer it be made in GB. But if not, it won't affect my decision as to what bike i will or will not buy at all. I plan on buying the new mid size cruiser if and when it arrives, and from all accounts it seems it will be made or least assembled in Thailand. But if it's all i'm hoping, i will have a burning desire to own it no matter where it's made as long as triumph designed it and the quality and design are up to the standards they have displayed so far.
I just happen to like triumph designs and always loved the Meridan twins, and no one builds bikes like the current range of twins and the rocket. and i'm sure the new cruiser will also fit right in there somewhere. All anyone else builds now-a-days are V twins, sportbikes and a few multis, all of which i have little to no interest in. So bring on the Thai 1500...........i'm all over it !
