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Practicality Overrated? The Real Reason to Ride a Ducati
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For passionate riders, a motorcycle is rarely about getting from point A to point B efficiently. The latest generation of two-wheel enthusiasts often trades the seamless reliability of modern daily drivers for a machine that demands your full attention, mechanical empathy, and a willingness to tolerate a little physical discomfort. In this episode, hosts Richard and Jansen dive into the enduring allure of 1990s Italian sport bikes and what happens when functional racing engineering accidentally creates timeless visual art.
We sit down to talk about Richard's recent acquisition of a 1999 Ducati 750 Super Sport and the lingering temptation of a companion 900 Super Sport project bike sitting in the shop. The conversation explores the engineering legacy of Massimo Tamburini, the mechanics of desmodromic valve trains, and the stark contrast between the high-revving scream of Japanese multi-cylinder bikes and the low-end torque of an Italian V-twin. We also look honestly at the realities of vehicle design, comparing the stripped-down, foam-housed instrument clusters of performance bikes to the unique expectations placed on small-scale manufacturers like Janice Motorcycles.
Riding a pure sport bike exposes you to a reality of stiff suspensions, aggressive ergonomics, and the inevitable attention of every loud truck on the highway looking to race. Yet, the reward is a deeply visceral connection to design history and an exhaust note that sounds less like an appliance and more like a mechanical roar. Viewers will walk away with an appreciation for the era when manufacturers weren't afraid to let their distinct regional identities dictate exactly how a motorcycle should feel, look, and sound.
If you care about vintage garage projects, the philosophy of functional industrial design, and the raw experience of regional motorcycle manufacturing, you’ll get a lot from this. Be sure to Subscribe and Share the podcast with a fellow rider. What is your favorite era of sport bike design, and do you prefer Japanese refinement or Italian character? Let us know in the comments below.
Hello everyone, welcome to the Ramble Stream Podcast. I'm Richard. And I'm Jansen. Each week we sit down for rambling conversations about motorcycles, the experience of riding, design, and whatever else catches our fancy. Bring a beverage of your choice or stories, and we'll see where this takes us.
SPEAKER_02If you're interested in thoughtful conversations, friendly and informative banter with fellow riders, and the latest dispatches from Janus Motorcycles headquarters, you're in the right place. Let's get started. Good evening.
SPEAKER_00Hello.
SPEAKER_02Welcome.
SPEAKER_00We're here.
SPEAKER_02What episode are we on?
SPEAKER_00This is episode 133. Could you could you ever imagine?
SPEAKER_02I mean, I could, but it's still a little bit shocking.
SPEAKER_00We've done it for this long.
SPEAKER_02Welcome back to another Ramble stream, another Monday night. And this one is a kind of a hot and muggy one. So if you hear a little buzzing in the background, that's the tiny AC unit that's air conditioning. The only conditioned well, no, I take that back. Paint room is conditioned. Uh-huh. The only other conditioned area in the shop.
SPEAKER_00And it's keeping us alive.
SPEAKER_02The Ramble Studio.
SPEAKER_00So please, if you do hear it, just ignore it. We're not going to turn it off because we will die.
SPEAKER_02We have a really fun. I'm I'm really looking forward to tonight's episode. I don't, I mean, I said this on the pre-Ramble to the folks. Do not hold me to how little I know about Ducati. No. But we're going to dig in and we're going to try. We're going to have a lot of fun. But before we get started, or now that we're started. Now that we're started. Read the banner below and proceed as follows. No, um, tell us a little bit about yourself. Uh, we get to talk to you all, but you get to type. So um we'd like to hear where you're viewing from, what your name is, what you ramble with, and that can be a motorcycle or several, or maybe it could be a uh DeLorean. Um it could be a car, it could be a truck. A boat. Boat, plane, you name it. Spaceship.
SPEAKER_00Space. Well. Hey, it's totally fair.
SPEAKER_02Um, and but most importantly, tell us what you're sipping on this evening. Yes. My name is Richard Worsham, co-founder and head of design at Janus Motorcycles. I'm broadcasting from the Ramble studio here in downtown Goshen at our headquarters. I ramble with uh 1980 Cushman Truckster. A currently a 19, I had the date wrong on the Vespa. It's an 84. I looked up the VIN. And they didn't make the PX50XL in 1980. Uh 50cc Vespa. A 1999 Ducati Super Sp750 Super Sport, and 2009 KLR650, and a 2017 Kawasaki KLR. Oh, and um also a 1974 Suzuki RL 250.
SPEAKER_00When did you get that?
SPEAKER_02Last week. It's a scramble, it's a Trolls bike, which I'm I'm deciding if I want to buy it.
SPEAKER_00Okay, okay. My name is Jansen. I'm also coming to you live from the Ramble studio here in Goshen, Indiana at Janice Motorcycles World Headquarters. What are you sipping on, Richard? I get we gotta give credit to credit where credit's due. We have to.
SPEAKER_02I'm sipping on an incredibly nice bourbon whiskey, Angels Envy Triple Oak Constructivity Kentucky Constructy. Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey. Um and this is actually bottled by who makes Angels Envy Louell Distilling Company. I don't know. Um yeah, this though is courtesy of Kelly Christmas. The one and only he sent this in. So I have a thank you note coming to you, Kelly. I just haven't had a chance to get it in the mail. But we it's from Jansen and I. Jansen will and you've missed that on two bottles. I know. Two bottles.
SPEAKER_00No, not next week. It'll be the week after. The week after. Yeah, we'll still have some left. 135 will be the uh the drunk stream.
SPEAKER_02For Jansen.
SPEAKER_00One one sip in the middle of the street.
SPEAKER_02This one might be for me.
SPEAKER_00Um my name is Jansen. Coming to you live, of course. Um, I'm sipping on some high quality H2O straight out of the tap here at Janice, and it's delicious. I ramble in a Ford Lightning and soon to be rambling in Phoenix 450 named Fours. And I say soon to be like I'm I'm hopeful, but I think it might be. Are you gonna get anything first? We got a little bit. I really Richard, okay. Richard bought a Ducati 900 Super Sport with his 750 Supersport, and I am like extremely tempted.
SPEAKER_02I'm so I got a little anecdote that might excite you. I haven't determined this is true or not, but I I did throw a battery in the 750 and it started right up. Well, I threw a battery in the 900 and it just cranked, but didn't start up. But then last week I rode the 750 down to TT for Chopper Night, worked on it, had a buddy, took it out as a test spin, came back, ran fine. Then I go to leave and it would just crank and crank and crank and it wouldn't go. And so I'm just like, oh man, it's gotta be like this, like a you know, the the fuel pump wouldn't kick on. So it's like the fuel pump relay. Oh my god. Something weird. I'll steal it off the 900.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Well, I didn't get around to it. Well, then the next day I go down there to like check on it, and Chase is like, um, you know, I don't know if you couldn't tell that the kill switch was off. Because I always use the key. Anyway, I'm really wondering if that 900 kill switch is off.
SPEAKER_00Is it off? Because it cranks.
SPEAKER_02So we'll see.
SPEAKER_00We'll have to take a look at it.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna get it running.
SPEAKER_00But I'm really tempted to buy it off of Richard once uh once everything's kind of up and running. Because I I I want a little bit of a project.
SPEAKER_02You need something to work on.
SPEAKER_00I want a project. I'm I'm kind of getting ants.
SPEAKER_02Could be could be a while until that Phoenix 450 comes up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. I told Richard I've been spending a lot more time around here lately, and uh the amount of time that I spend at Janice and my desire to have another motorcycle uh is in parallel just exponentially increasing. Uh so it's only a matter of time, really. Let's get a poem, Richard.
SPEAKER_02This is Seed Leaves by Robert Frost. And it I don't actually know the history of this one, but it says homage to RF. Huh. I guess that could be Robert Frost. Could be. I don't know. Maybe not. Here something stubborn comes, dislodging the earth crumbs and making crusty rubble. It comes up bending double and looks like a green staple. It could be a seedling maple or artichoke or bean. That remains to be seen. Forced to make a choice of ends, the stalk in time unbends, shakes off the seed case, heaves aloft, and spreads two leaves which still display no sure and special signature. Toothless and fat they keep the oval forms of sleep. This plant would like to grow and yet be embryo, increase and yet escape the doom of taking shape, be vaguely vast and climb to tip to the tip end of time, with all of space to fill, like boundless idragsil that has the stars for fruit. But something at the root, more urgent than that urge, bids two leaves, true leaves emerge, and now the plant resign to being self-defined before it can commerce with the great universe, takes aim at all the sky and starts to ramify. I think that is to Robert Frost. I recognize that.
SPEAKER_00Sounds like a little bit of a rubber. Bobby Frost. That's good.
SPEAKER_02There you go.
SPEAKER_00I like that one.
SPEAKER_02You did okay. Well, that maybe let's make keep the record going.
SPEAKER_00There's something about uh planting or like like with with the garden, especially Danny's planting a garden right now, and uh there's something about being able to like pluck the food, it's amazing, and then eat the food. It's it's very fulfilling, it's arguably the most fulfilling thing ever. And I don't really garden.
SPEAKER_02So there you have it. Weeding is also fulfilling.
SPEAKER_00No, weeding is not fulfilling. Weeding makes me want to die, not to be dramatic or anything. I think it's I think it's about time to talk about Ducati, Richard.
SPEAKER_02Where do we even? I'm gonna re-reiterate our our caveat is that neither Jameson nor I are any shape or form experts in Ducati, not the history of Ducati. Close. I my the extent of my understanding of Ducati is the overall appreciation for motorcycles over the last hundred something years. I have always appreciated the 1990s Ducati look. And I will go at I will go so far as to say that it may be part of my appreciation for motorcycles and got have gotten me interested in motorcycles. Period.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I feel like a lot of people growing up in the 90s, if they are into into motorcycles or machines of any kind, yeah, you have to appreciate what Ducati does.
SPEAKER_02And yeah, it might be an age thing too. Um, I know that there are many people that are much, much older than me that appreciate the 916 and the 748 and other Ducati's from that era, but yeah, it does, it is kind of one of those things like you think about like a teenager in the 1990s, just you can picture the poster on the wall. Yeah, just daydreaming dreaming about owning one, or or just a pre like literally just thinking it's just incredibly beautiful. Because it is. Yeah. And yes, I think that there it might seem ironic that uh someone who has such an appreciation for 1920s motorcycles like myself, and who goes so far as to say that covering up the beauty of the motorcycle in a bunch of plastic hurts it. Yeah. Would like a 1990s sport bike fully fared sport bike. Like the ducati like a Ducati. Right. But um there, they're you you you just I don't know. I mean I they're just beautiful.
SPEAKER_00I think what I'm drawn to the most, and what why I think I like Janice motorcycles so much is because of the simplicity of it, and a lot of the things on the 916 in particular are there because that was the best thing.
SPEAKER_02Like you are you talking about, like a kind of a pairing of form and functions? Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_00I mean, they talk about I I was watching a video today, and it was like the only reason why it had a single side swing arm is because it's easier to take the wheel off that way when they're racing. Like that's it, and it's turned into this iconic, beautiful thing. And the origin of it was just because it was easier to do it that way. And I I Well, not easier to make, but easier to work on work on and and race and quickly change that that rear tire. Yeah. Um, and I I just appreciate that. I think the finding the beauty and the function is like the epitome of design.
SPEAKER_02And and if you look back at those, what one of the explanations I have, the justifications I've given in years past for the way we do things at Janus is it was always, I think, a question. Is it is it is it because there's a pairing of form and function? And that the these motorcycles perfectly they they they had to express they had to make the functioning, the inner workings of the bike beautiful because they had to be there. Right. Um there was nothing to cover them up. I'm not I'm not 100% sure that I was right when I would say that, but but I do think that there's a there is when it comes to machines, like a like a watch, when you expose the workings of the watch, it's really beautiful. And also sometimes when you cover it all up and it looks just like a beautiful little jewel box and then it works perfectly. There's there's something really beautiful about that. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um so that's why I'm I'm drawn to the 916 so much, is because of the combination of form and yeah.
SPEAKER_02So um we haven't we haven't really talked about how we want to tackle this, but I think given how we normally do things, I I always kind of go back and look at the history. Uh I'm I'm a little more informed this time around on what so why don't you tell us a little bit about your understanding of the history of the 916?
SPEAKER_00I'm not so much sure about the history of it as much as I am uh why they kind of did it.
SPEAKER_02Okay, well start there, and then we can talk about history.
SPEAKER_00Well, if you look at the Ducati 888, the the triple eight, if you will. Uh that's what I like to call it. I'm a Ducati professional. Um they uh were looking for something that was a little more aerodynamic and they wanted to win races. Ducati wasn't doing very good at the time. Um, so they took them six years to who what was the the designer's name again?
SPEAKER_02Massimo Tamorini.
SPEAKER_00Tamorini.
unknownTamarini.
SPEAKER_00Is that Tamarini? Yeah, yeah. And and they also changed the the engine, if I'm I'm not mistaken, is a new power plane altogether for them.
SPEAKER_02Uh it was a continued development of the of the um Desmo V twin 90-degree engine. Yeah. But they did do so, they they updated it significantly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so they wanted something a little more aerodynamic, a little lighter. And you can tell, like the biggest indicator, I think, of that attempt is if you look at the front fairing, uh the the the front of the motorcycle is so narrow and thin compared to a lot of 90s sport bikes. I feel like in the 90s, a lot of the motorcycles were kind of bulbous and round, and they kind of went the opposite direction. Um, so I again coming back to like the the form, uh in it, the the the design choice being influenced by the function, it's like, gosh, please keep doing more like that. Um, talked about the single side swing arm already a little bit. Um the three-spoke wheels, like all this stuff is very unique to the 916. And and there aren't any 90s motorcycles that look like that. And then if you look at pro probably every single sport bike after the 916, except for maybe like the the 99, what was it? The nine, what was the ugliest, the ugliest Ducati? The nine the passo? Is that what it is? Well, the the guy who designed the the uh the mono body, the mon the the the super mono? The supermono. And then he designed another motorcycle after the 916. I forget what the the scheme is, but it's like known as one of the ugliest Ducotis.
SPEAKER_02Well, I think that the passo is one of the ones that people it's it like the one that's completely fared and it's kind of like bulbous, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But um I think that every single motorcycle has been influenced. I maybe not every single, it's kind of an exaggeration, but a lot of motorcycles have been influenced after the 916 has been designed, right?
SPEAKER_02You look at absolutely I found that quote I was looking for. Oh, yeah. And this is just a this is from um uh Mike Mick Walker's motorcycle evolution design and passion, which is a fantastic book.
SPEAKER_00Um Alzberg says the 999 with the vertical headlights. Yes, I think that's the one you're thinking.
SPEAKER_02Okay. The pasta is pretty used too. Um the the the 916, the really big news for 1994, however, was the arrival of the groundbreaking 916. The machine's engine size matched its code number and had been achieved by increasing the stroke of the 888 from 64 to 66 millimeters. The remain the remainder of the 916, though, set it apart um from earlier Ducati's. This was the work of Massimo Tamborini, who has been described as one of the greatest motorcycle designers of the late 20th century and with good cause. To many enthusiasts around the world, the 916 was not simply the latest superbike, but the best there had ever been. It set new standards for of performance, handling, and braking, but also had style and charisma. The choice of a Ferrari red paint scheme added to the overall effect, as did the twin headlamp fairing, high-level silencers, single-sided rear swing arm, and magical deep-throated booming exhaust note. Um and and yeah, it really did um uh just completely re-establish Ducati and and and what a s what a super bike could could be. Because they were pretty amazing.
SPEAKER_00Ducati wasn't doing well at this point, right?
SPEAKER_02They had been doing well previously. Now, they they Ducati, you gotta remember, like many companies, started off really small. They they started off with the cucciolo, the puppy, which was an engine that you could strap onto your bicycle.
SPEAKER_00Oh, fun.
SPEAKER_02Um then before that, what did they make? They made like resistors. Electric was an electrical company, which is ironic. That was funny. Um we won't go there. The cucciolo. And and then they they progressed, and they were really they they made a lot of small displacement bikes, and some of them were successful, um, 250s. Um, but it wasn't until the 750 GT and the the like Paul Smart 750 that they started really winning. Those are winning races. Um and then in the I forget the date, but they came out with a motorcycle called the Panta. Okay. And the Panta was the, if I'm not mistaken, the first bike where they um shifted from now, I'm this is where I'm not an expert in Ducati, from bevel drive to to belt drive. Okay. And they, but of course, during this time they were using this desmodromic valve train, which is extremely complicated.
SPEAKER_00But basically the idea is Arlsberg says fun fact, the desmodromic is an Italian word that roughly translates to float hundreds of hundred dollars, not valves.
SPEAKER_02Actually, it means what does it mean? Like something basically the idea is that it is comes from Latin, but basically the I the idea is instead of using valve springs to return the valve to the seat, it's mechanically actuated. Gotcha. So instead so instead of just lifting like a normal engine, it lifts and it closes. So you get around the idea of valve float at high RPM. Right now, in today's world, engines and valve train technology has progressed where it's not quite as much of an advantage. And Ducati is actually not no longer on some bikes using that. Yeah, but through this whole period, it really was an advantage that they could use the desmodromic um system. I'm I'm confronting the cost of worrying about having to do that or or or do it myself. Um but anyway. So the Panta was was a a really um remarkable bike. Um, and then they came out with what was what would be the next one would be the 851, okay, which was very successful. If you're used to like, you know, crotch rockets as they call them, or rice burners, or whatever you want to, whatever kind of expression you want to write. Rice burners. Um, these Japanese sport bikes, yeah, which is which are fantastic machines. They I was watching this there's a really good. We should maybe I'll if I remember, I'll post a link to the video, but it's a uh history of Ducati put out by Ducati. Yeah, um, and it has interviews with all the great designers, um, including the current CEO of Ducati, which I found it remarkable that he was part of the design of some of these 90s bikes.
SPEAKER_00I feel like has to be the trajectory, right? If you're gonna if you want to be the CEO of Ducati, I feel like your roots have to start in the trajectory. Claudio Dominicali. Gosh, it's so cool. It's a it's a perfect thing.
SPEAKER_02And he's an avid rider. Yeah. Um, but where was I going with that? Um, oh, that the the in the video they talk what the director of the museum, the Ducati Museum, is talking about how the all the Japanese bikes go wing wing wing wing wing and Ducati's roar, uh-huh. And how that's a different experience for the rider. And I can absolutely attest to that now.
SPEAKER_00It is the most bizarre thing to hear you ripping down the street after like being used to hearing just like mostly Janice motorcycles. There's something extremely distinct about your bike.
SPEAKER_02Also, they they it develops power in a completely different place than typical Japanese bikes, which are high-reving right motorcycles, and you know, power is coming in at five, six, seven, eight thousand RPM, whereas the Ducati red lines at nine, yeah, or at least the Super 750 Super Sport does. Um, and but that they're renowned for this low-end torque that you get from a V-twin engine. Um, it's a very different experience. Anyway, where I'm going with it is that it's such a lightweight bike. And guess what? You know, I I've often thought, you know, Janus motorcycles, you know, they're just they're not they're for for having fun on. They're not for like if you're if your main goal is practicality, then this is not the machine for you. Right. Well, that is infinitely more true of one of the best known motorcycle brands in the world, Ducati, which is these bikes are just like they're not practical.
SPEAKER_00There's somehow a motorcycle.
SPEAKER_02I would I would not say if you wanted a one bike, uh don't get it's it's not that don't do that. Get something that's like get like Bonneville or Janice, or something that's like comfortable and that you can are you saying that Ducati out Janice Janice?
SPEAKER_00No, but I'm but I I mean They have for a suspension.
SPEAKER_02But I am saying that they it's been enlightening to kind of understand that they are a motorcyclist motorcycle in the sense that a Janice is as well. And that they are they're for they're for p fun and for passion. Yeah. They're not for um hey, I want to get a really uh affordable way to get good fuel mileage from here to you know my workplace or like I want this to be the most comfortable ride. No, it's a statement and it's uh a thing that's fun. Yeah, and you're fun number one. There's definitely some fun number one involved. Um but there's also you have to deal with a lot of uncomfort and um lack of practicality. Yeah, and there's something really beautiful that it was just interesting for me to, as someone who is firmly in the camp of rambling, to understand that this is something that's different and that you can actually ramble on one, yeah. Um, especially if you have like the one the 750 is it's only like 62 horsepower. Um yeah, you can it's a fast bike, but you can enjoy more of the gears within the legal speed limit. Some of it unlike a Janus, uh just to just to contrast them, is a bike that you can go through every single gear, right? And you're perfectly safe and you know, well, safe from the law at least. Right, right. Um, whereas the the uh a sport bike, uh a racing kind of fast motorcycle, wants to go fast, right? And people want to race you. Yeah. Which I never especially experienced on a Janus. People are like, oh, it's really cool on a Janus, and then they're like, there's like people in trucks are like revving their engines.
SPEAKER_00Oh, hey man, listen, it's not it's not me, it's not me. Yeah, I uh I I still want to ride your 750 just to just to see.
SPEAKER_02When I get good tires on it, I'll let people ride it.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, I I can from hearing you talk about it, it feels like, oh, like this is an extension of of what rambling is, right? It's like it's it's just a a different version of it, right?
SPEAKER_02And if you listen to that the that video that you learn about the history of of Ducati, you have a company with passionate riders. The people that work there love motorcycle, they love motorcycling. Um, yes, they're probably we we can all have our stereotype of the Ducati rider, just like we have our stereotype of the BMW rider.
SPEAKER_00And a Janice rider. And lo and behold, here I am wearing a bright yellow jacket.
SPEAKER_02You know, like that's the that's the stereotype, right? It's like the helmet, the gloves, the jacket, the pants, the leathers.
SPEAKER_00You know, you gotta go get yourself a little cappuccino.
SPEAKER_02Well, I do that anyway. I do that anyway. I I love Italy, but and and the other fun aspect about it is it as a as a person of simple means when you're riding something like that, you really are. I do feel like I mean that the instrument cluster is housed in a block of foam. I'm not even kidding. It's not because it was fixed, it's original, it's a piece of foam that holds all the clut the instruments together.
SPEAKER_00Do you know the reason behind that?
SPEAKER_02It's probably like isolation or something like that. But like I can you they also sell like carbon fiber like after you know right aftermarket ones, but that was the best way to it reminds me of like a Ferrari F40. Yeah. In the fact that like the interior is like stripped down, but also beautiful, and like there's this like combination of form and function that the Italians seem to be really good at doing. And so when you're riding it and you hear the roar and you see the instruments all like doing their thing, and you're like, it's kind of like driving it for hours. Yeah, not that I've ever done that, but you know, it it it feels like that. So it's really it it there's a uh it's isn't it amazing that we get to ride, and I think motorcycles are more this way than cars in some sense. These different kinds of bikes, you have to have so many different experiences, and each kind, each country, each region has its own way of approaching things, right? So you have the Italians with like MV and Kajiva and Bimoda and Moto Guzi, and they have this like flair and the Moto Guzi flair is very different than the Ducati flare. And the MV flare is its own thing. Uh-huh. And then you have and then when they try to make American bikes, it gets really fun. Right. Uh, and then you have Harley Davidson and Indian and the American brands Janus. Um, and then you have the Japanese and like the English, like they each have their own way of doing things, and it's totally different. And the more that they kind of become similar, I feel like the more that they lose their oomph the fun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So it's like they forgot they had forgotten who they were, you know.
SPEAKER_02And I maybe if there is one criticism of the Japanese bikes, is they're so good at assimilating all the best. Yeah. Yeah. And so you you end up getting this motorcycle. Like when I was as I was reading today, it's like there is no such thing as a bad motorcycle in the last 20 years.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I I believe that.
SPEAKER_02Compared to 30 or 40 years ago or 50 years ago, there were there really were like legitimate needs out there. You just like did not want to, like, it was a terrible decision. Nowadays, yeah, we can all like gripe about the problem of this bike or the problem, but they're all pretty reliable. And right the the scary thing is that Janice is held to that same standard by all of every single one of our customers is like okay, this thing has to be reliable. Right. Um, now we get more leeway, probably, than than Harley Davidson or Honda. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, but I would imagine there's a parallel there between younger um vehicle manufacturers and even younger motorcycle manufacturers of like um there's definitely I I wish I could remember the brand that I'm thinking of. There's recent most just recently, there's a supercar brand that is that only sells like a handful of cars a year. And uh some reason they got on my on my in my algorithm, and I'm watching these videos about these guys kind of walking through these these cars, and they're like, Yep, this is a problem. This is a pro I paid like $500,000 for this car. This is a problem, this is a problem, this is a problem. This looks like it came from Chrysler, and they're like listing through all these things. I'm like, these people are paying this much money to be a part of the beginning of something, and I don't know if it's necessarily worth it, but there's a there's a a charm there. There is a charm of the Morgan charm, you know. Trying to figure it out and do it, right?
SPEAKER_02Or you have the charm, the kind of Morgan charm, which is like this tiny company up against the big who's been doing it the same way for a really long time, right? And there's the quirks of it. Yeah, and I think we get a lot of um leeway from Janice owners because they're like, this is part of a story, and they're gonna back me up. If we have a problem, they'll come to my rescue. But I also think we don't we don't we like if we if we were compared to Honda necessarily. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00Well, because they have to have it figured out, right?
SPEAKER_02Nobody gives Honda any excuses.
SPEAKER_00No, no, I don't give them any excuses.
SPEAKER_02I paid five grand for this thing, it better work every single day for 20 years.
SPEAKER_00They've you've paid five grand for it and they've made a hundred thousand of them, right? Like you have after a hundred thousand of the same unit, you have to have it figured out. Like, please. I I just I I I think it's cool. It's it's uh uh an entryway into being a part of a story, and I think that's uh what all you all Janice owners are. And um there's a loud Harley outside. Is that Gabe? I think it's Gabe on his. Gabe bought a $1,200 Harley. It's beautiful, and it's gorgeous, and it's very loud. Well, that's all the time we have. That went by fast. Um, thank you for listening to us to a listening to babbling about.
SPEAKER_02But uh I'm I'm sure that in the next coming months I will know a lot more.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we'll we'll be more uh stay tuned, learned and and up to date. So thank you all so much for watching. We will see you next week for episode 134.
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