I do a lot of deals with Wolfgang where I join forces with him to order bulk, fact is Wolfgang is the only dealer I purchase from, I find most of the rest too expensive though not tried OCT yet.
This helps his purchasing power and also helps me obtain stock at good prices.
In general, it is getting more difficult to have repro parts manufactured at the quality that the factory were able to obtain.
Consider this, lets say for an item such as the Inlet Manifold rubber connectors on the 81 models.
How many would the factory have ordered do you think, around 1500 at least, probably more, only covers 500 bikes.
When Wolfgang orders the same item even including my order for 90 units, he can still only order 180 rubbers +/-.
Any manufacturer is going to regard that as a pretty small order and it gets pushed down the line, we are still waiting on the above order for the last 5 months.
And the qualitiy is not there either anymore as the last lot had a habit of cracking and trying to get the manufacturer to change is difficult, especially as these are made in Italy at the same company that supplied the original units and the Italians are sometimes, quite difficult to deal with.
He is facing longer and longer waits on items these days as all the suppliers would be.
Is difficult trying to supply parts for old kit in small volumes.
Just the outlay in money to stock a reasonable level of stock is enormous, Max and I would have around $50k in stock now and we have stuff all really in parts, mainly engine related items.
Difficult market to operate in.
Always found Wolfgang to be great to deal with though.
Red
but I think he has a point here.
