I am somewhat disappointed at the direction our fledgling bretheren fond of the bobber style who have begun to go down the road paved by the pro-street fad 12 years or so ago. I still build my own bikes and provide some technical expertise to friends building their own.I do feel that, on average, US made parts by domestic custom builders are usually better quality than what you’ll get buying from companies selling foreign made parts. I worked in the industry for years and finally got out when it became just another stressful job and no longer a passion. My advice is to buy your parts where you like and live with the results. The economy is affecting everyone and unfortuantely there will continue to be casualties with those companies that cannot adapt to survive. The movement to sourcing off-shore is inevitable and simply a reaction to the increasing cost of manufacturing parts in this fine country of ours. There is a ton of hypocracy in this business like any other.
The fact is everyone is going to do what they need to do to build (or have built) the bike they want. You can go round and round debating the aspects of domestic and foreign built products and just like the differences bewtween the bikes we build, there will be differences in our opinions. Whoever is making the parts for them is not doing a very good job. (NEVER SAW THIS HAPPEN WITH A KRAFT TECH OIL TANK) Full of rust on the inside, the sides that show are warped and crooked everywhere and the plating is a terrible. How about their chrome oil tanks from Pakistan. (HAVE NEVER HAD THIS HAPPEN TO A STURGIS OR PM WHEEL) Have seen wheel hubs fall off of billet wheels. (NEVER HAD THIS HAPPEN WITH A RUSSEL OR PM ROTOR) Have seen many of their brake rotors crack in half. (NEVER HAD THIS HAPPEN WITH A BDL, RIVERA PRIMO PART) Have you tried one of their belt drives? Wow! They don’t align with motor cases, transmission cases, you have to shim transmissions off base plates, starter drives hang up and later turn to toast. This is the case for a lot of their house brand components. There are a lot of cheap knock-off parts out there that just don’t fit properly and or fail prematurely. The customer even wishes he had bucked up for the better, higher priced part! It’s just not good business to steer your customer to the cheaper part.
Sell the cheap part and install it and it will come back to bite you in the ass! A dealer has to be careful what parts they sell and install. I agree with the fact that import parts are everywhere.
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