1199 Panigale sight unseen?

[mxs]

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You shouldn't be putting weight on your wrists on any bike.

Nobody should, but everyone does ... even Superman .... Unless you have a very upright bike, like a supermoto kind which Panigale is definitely not.

 

[mxs]

What happens to all the bikes made after May?? They sit around cause they are next years model?
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Yes they will make some after May, but Canada will see none. Simple concept of allocations. Again, they know how many the can afford to make in 2012 as 2012 model. It's already set, curved in stone, they cannot easily change it and will not. That's one of the negatives of being small, when you can sell every bike you can make, you cannot start miraculously make more. When you are hurting it's good to be small with small production volumes.

 

[murf]

Yes they will make some after May, but Canada will see none. Simple concept of allocations. Again, they know how many the can afford to make in 2012 as 2012 model. It's already set, curved in stone, they cannot easily change it and will not. That's one of the negatives of being small, when you can sell every bike you can make, you cannot start miraculously make more. When you are hurting it's good to be small with small production volumes.

Just checking, cause according to Tony that wasn't the case.

Isn't the point of having a flex line to be able to change production as needed?

 

[mxs]

Just checking, cause according to Tony that wasn't the case.

Isn't the point of having a flex line to be able to change production as needed?

True, but all their models are selling pretty good I guess ...

 

[tonymorgan]

No, we're telling customers that NOW. The Panigales are sold out, at least as far as Western Ontario is concerned.

 

[awyala]

Honda and others have flex lines where they make more than one model on one line. That is nothing new.

I would hazzard a guess that HRC alone is bigger in scale than not only the Corse division but the entire Bologna factory!

HRC factory in Japan: http://photos.motogp.com/2004/09/21/123112_hrc+honda+tour+3-800x600-sep21.jpg._preview_169.jpg

Entire Ducati Factory in Bologna (of which a small part is the Corse division): http://www.mymotorland.net/wp-content/gallery/ducati-tour/fabbrica-ducati.jpg

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=ducati...=1&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl

Flex-line or not, that factory produces not only their street bikes, but their motoGP, superbike, and all other base bikes for racing teams!

The Panigale was being distributed to BSB, SS, among others in February and early March. Additionally the Panigale has an all new engine, and shares electronics with one other bike, not their entire line. In this way none of us are clear on how flexible their assembly lines can be for this particular model at this time.

Maybe with common engines and trellis frames the lines can be quite flexible across models, but the Panigale is not set into a frame, instead built around an engine, requiring a different assembly procedure to any other model in the line-up.

Additionally, many of the parts of the Panigale are actually machined (out sourced) in the far East. These are likely pre-orders and not entirely up to a few Italians on the factory floor to ramp up. They have agreements with their suppliers.

PS, that red tile roof section in the aeriel photo is abandoned, and the other factory above to the left is Ducati Energia, which is an electrical components (not the motorcycle company).

So that one white (box) factory at the bottom is the entire Ducati factory!

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