LYN...

the last surviving forum in msia...

not just the 2 or 3 of us here...

youngsters these days move on to apps like 'Discord'

I was like .. wtf is that...

haha out topic liao....

That new meteor bike... when ppl found out the price in india, they got no mood bout the bike , cos they can tell the price will be too high if its ever imported to msia...

This post has been edited by basilisk: Nov 11 2020, 09:17 AM

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Yes agreed on this. The 650s are at 15-17k RM back home. But you have to understand Indians pay 5 RM for a liter to move that thing. So you win some, you lose some.
Meteor is even cheaper....

No wonder those guys in India keep asking about fuel consumption Not a big deal here though

Yup, the Trident is an excellent new roadster with a hint of classic. It is, I would say in the same formula as the Honda neo-classics or the Suzuki SV650X. They're modern bikes that look modern with just a hint of the past but they're largely closer to modern than retro.

My son asked me to download Discord. Did that, used it once or twice...it is still there somewhere in my phone...probably waiting to be uninstalled

cheapest bike everywhere but malaysia. shame

Yup, it is a real pity but hopefully the new models coming in will give the importer a chance to re-align the pricing and work out more units on the road. RE is a decent brand with a chance to succeed. Just need the right strategy to do so.

I doubt RE will change, they seem a lot more greedy. I will give you an example of prices from India Vs here for the made in India bikes:

NS 200: RM 8000 (India) RM 11500 (Malaysia)

Dominar: RM 10500 RM 15000

Apache RTR 200 RM 6200 RM 11000

Interceptor: RM 16000 RM 45000

So see the percentage difference they charge vs Bajaj or TVS.

Modenas is setup by the msian gov to be like proton.
So it has 'special' bla bla bla..
the bikes are allowed to be priced much lower.

currently the ns200 is less than rm10k. ~9.4 k
dominar otr price now 12,xxx.

fully imported RE frm india will have other bla bla bla tax imposed, and other blablabla...

so we end up with that price.

Thats the reason I added the RTR200 also which is from TVS and no liaison with any Malaysian company. Correct me if I am wrong.

Well, hopefully they can lower the prices a bit when they start ASEAN assembly in Thailand which should give RE some cost savings. They really need to sell on price for this moment to build up units in operation to make it worthwhile for dealers. Dealers need to stock up spare parts and they need bikes to service...

tvs imported by a company called ''Daju motors'.
bike assembled in indonesia.

Now dealer is offering @ rm6.5k only.



This post has been edited by basilisk: Nov 12 2020, 04:46 PM

so re frm thai is kambing.... ??
how much cheaper can it bee??
price back in 2019,
now taken by didi new distributor,
reply frm sales advisor..

Test rode the Continental 650 GT last year, loved every bit of its retro quirk.... especially the air-cooled engine, coz it's a proper 270-crank twin!

But for the asking price, hell no...!!

There should be quite a lot more of these Conti GT 650 or Inter 650 running on Malaysian roads soon. Thankfully, the new distributor has the right business model in place to increase market share. The old distributor wanted to perhaps sell just a few bikes and relax for the whole month; not a good idea for a brand that wants to increase market share, order more parts and bring down manufacturing costs for better profitability...they failed to understand that RE is not a premium brand and needs to start low. The irony is this. The RE Conti GT is on average about RM5k to RM10k cheaper than my SV650X in other countries but it was the opposite with the previous distributor. Its no wonder why they lost the brand distributorship

expensive cos its cbu india mar,

now thai factory oredi in production, so can cheaper abit lo..

if can cheaper than mt07 then mebe more ppl will buy here..

https://www.autocarindia.com/bike-news/roya...thailand-422750

You can hope, but its not going to happen....unless a less greedy distributor here starts to CKDs it here.

At the current price of RE here, it is a non starter. There are plenty of other better bikes for the price.

I would be happy with a Himalayan if it was priced more reasonably.

Can't use that point. The SV650X is CBU Japan...so, it is still cheaper than the CBU India? The RE bikes should be cheaper regardless whether Thai made or not. Anyway, let's hope that the new distributors do the brand some justice. I am not a fan of their Bullet, Classic or Himalayan models but I do hope that their 650 Twins catch a goof share of the market here. They need to be priced to penetrate.

That was the previous distributor based in Shah Alam. I believe the new guys know what they're doing and from my chats with the key people, their business model is different with a strategy to increase numbers. Only way is to make it affordable (much more than before).