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    #32
    muddle84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭muddle84


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780650#Comment_120780650

    I'd doubt they surveyed it, but there is much bigger markets than Ireland that wouldn't have any interest in a union jack on their posessions!



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    #33
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    Its a national bike pride thing

    MV Augusta, Ducati and Aprilia are at it too

    Green, White and Red all over their bikes. It's interesting the way they do it and BMW, Yamaha, KTM, Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki, etc

    I wonder are they rules that dictate you cannot use the national flag to advertise in the countries those manufacturers are from?



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    #34
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,672 ✭✭✭Feisar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120785317#Comment_120785317

    In fairness the Brits were at it a lot longer than the Nazi's, their flag had a pretty high kill count associated with it.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #35
    muddle84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭muddle84


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120808797#Comment_120808797

    I could be wrong, but i'm sure i've seen a Japanese flag on the fairing of a Japanese bike before, but i can't remember what it was. Google is saying the Honda RC213V-S has it, but i've never seen one of them in the flesh!!!



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    #36
    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120786073#Comment_120786073


    Yes, we do need 2.5l bikes. The world does. And where are you pulling 10mpg out of - in reality they run about mid 30's to mid 40's mpg depending on how you ride them. About the same as my GoldWing.

    And as a previous owner of DT175's I can confirm that..........yes, I'd prefer the Triumph all day long.

    Did a course recently on Triumph 765s and that Triple engine is brilliant.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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    #37
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 35,057 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120808797#Comment_120808797

    Two world wars might have something to do with it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY&pp=ygUSYXJlIHdlIHRoZSBiYWRkaWVz


    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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    #38
    eoin.d
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭eoin.d


    Only thing I would buy with a Union Jack on it is toilet paper



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    #39
    jeremyr62
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭jeremyr62


    I can't believe they would plaster the flag over their bikes if they really thought it would make a significant dent in sales. Might not be popular in Ireland, but in the markets they sell most of their product to, which will probably be the UK and USA, they must have concluded it makes a positive contribution. Big companies don't leave this stuff to chance.



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    #40
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120812385#Comment_120812385

    I know there are certain rules in some countries about advertising using the national flag. Ireland is an example of this, you cannot use the flag to advertise anything.

    On these bikes the flag is very much incorporated into the design as is part of the product



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