My first thoughts
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Originally Posted by Chris of Japan
So, what is your story? Why did you go for Japanese or European?
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This will be of no help to your deliberations: I currently have one of each.
As for choosing a bike, it is a far more complex issue than the matter of what country of ownership/brand is on offer at a particular time: even more so nowadays if one takes into account that vehicle production is but one more of the many international businesses in this world.
The Japanese-owned car factories scattered across the UK come to mind as one obvious example.
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Originally Posted by Chris of Japan
with an image of being travel bikes.
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Perhaps your acquaintance has a distorted view; maybe s/he is too young to remember "the good old days" when Jap production of bikes killed off the UK produced "old iron"; the latter were all travel bikes in those days, but then the word you use - image - came into the equation via degree courses in marketing perhaps?
Many would say that the modern day BMW company have very good marketing staff who could sell ice to the eskimoes.
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Dave
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