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why is it that australian motorcycle magazine vote the agusta f4 the best bike of the year and rapid bikes with the likes of Wayne Gardner consider this as quote" THIS BIKE SHAKES AND WOBBLES ITS SET UP ALL WRONG _ And received the worst compliments
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Sounds like you might have only just realised that ALL magazines are purely commercially driven......
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So a couple of guys that normaly ride cafe racers, Harley's and old BMW's, work behind an editors desk and do media/track days,
vote the F4 the bike of the year. Are you really suprised. I'll bet they kicked the tyres too!!
But when a guy like Wayne Gardner says "this bike just aint right"....I'll listen and value his opinion!!
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...ordinary, compared to a Busa (track bike)
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All magazines are the same, I read street fords etc and they promote products that basically have the rep on the net as being shit. It just depends on the budget of the sponsor.
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27-07-2011, 07:33pm
(This post was last modified: 27-07-2011, 07:33pm by Belzybob.)
I don't know if anyone remembers it, but Tony Kirby (Sidetrack magazine) lost a lot of advertising because he called the real shots on just one Yamaha bike.
I get incensed by some of the garbage written, but its not worth writing to editors telling them they are dicks when its the marketing people that call the shots.
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