KTM dealer?

 

KTM, Honda, Kawasaki, Ducati & Royal Enfield dealers

 

Not just motorcycle industry

The whole of the vehicle sector - it’s dire

 

Says online they're in the process of moving to a new super premises at Swansea, due to open Feb '26.

 

I found this on FB so I suspect it means they are closing.

 

Fortnine released a video last night that probably goes a long way to explaining why.
In short, Taking the motorbike test in most Western countries is bullshit. Tons of tests, tons of training, tons of money, and expensive insurance for youngsters.
Electric bikes can go quick enough to scratch the itch, and deter youngsters from getting into motorbikes. Cheaper in every way, you just look gay.

 

All part of the plan I expect. The regime wants to elliminate the IC engine so they make petrol and diesel vehicles harder and harder to access for new drivers/riders. Motorcycles are the low hanging fruit. Bikers are a minority so legislating them out of existance comes at much lower political cost than the war on cars and the legislative and taxational thumbscrews can be applied under the cover of reducing road deaths. It's all for your own good etc.
When you want to destroy a certain way of life, starve it of new recruits. Youngsters don't miss what they've never had and older enthusiasts will eventually die off anyway.

It's the ratchet method, honed to perfection by the British deep state after 40 years of EU training. Remove rights and freedoms by incremental stealth, apply a slow inter-generational squeeze and drive the targeted activity into extinction through natural attrition. Eventually the behaviour you want to enforce becomes the new normal as no one knows any different reality so no one questions it.
They will do the same with car ownership, gun ownership, free speech, cash, freedom of travel, property ownership, the acquisition of wealth etc. The only way to fight it is mass disobedience. A refusal to comply. But the British - native and naturalised Britons anyway - are inherently obedient people and will walk compliantly into their own enslavement.

 

Couldn't have written that better myself. 10/10.

 

In short, Taking the motorbike test in most Western countries is bullshit. Tons of tests, tons of training, tons of money, and expensive insurance for youngsters.

There does seem to be a little too much involved in getting your license these days but many years ago it was far too easy. When I did mine I was at least followed by the examiner but when my friends did theirs (a couple of years before me) they just literally rode around the block.

Electric bikes can go quick enough to scratch the itch, and deter youngsters from getting into motorbikes. Cheaper in every way, you just look gay.

I think the law here are very different, anything remotely like that bike Ryan was riding requires the bike to be road registered, insurance and for you to have a license. So I don't think that type of ebike is a threat to potential motorcycle riders.
The 'free to ride' low powered ebikes are pretty lame here.

 

I think the law here are very different, anything remotely like that bike Ryan was riding requires the bike to be road registered, insurance and for you to have a license. So I don't think that type of ebike is a threat to potential motorcycle riders.
The 'free to ride' low powered ebikes are pretty lame here.

I disagree. The enforcement of those laws regarding E-bikes seems to be (almost) totally missing. I have been overtaken while legally riding my motorcycle complete with numberplate in a 20 limit around Exeter by a few yahoos with E-bikes, probably doing 40+. No plates, no helmets, almost certainly no insurance or training (let alone any kind of certification) while not pedalling. I can see the attraction for hooning on an E-bike, as its so much cheaper and easier, especially with no comebacks on the riders.

Perhaps they should have mandatory number plates and 3rd party insurance at the very least?

 

Relevant:

I agree with Bob.

 

And yet the government of the day thought e scooters were worth a try.
How the hell did they think they would be a good idea?

 

And yet the government of the day thought e scooters were worth a try.
How the hell did they think they would be a good idea?

Beats me….