And the customers probably wouldn't buy? Is that the root of it?Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:36 am Well yeah...to me a game changer creates a part of the market which didn't exist before.
I think the Tesla Model S is the easiest to get your head around. Before the Model S you could buy electric cars and you could buy fast cars and luxury cars. You couldn't buy a fast, luxury electric car that didn't cost a few hundred K.
Tesla put it in on the market and then forced everyone else to up their game and start developing cars they previosuly had no immediate intention to develop...something most of them are still struggling with!
I can't think of many bikes which did that.
Funny Front Ends? Nah, want forks, etc.
The most radical that bikes have been was shell-suit colour schemes and the current 'broken transformer toy' styling.
So far as radical goes, who led the superscooter evolution? Honda had a 250 on the 2000s, then there was the Burgman & TMax. Without them, there might not be the recent Hondas, including the 'adventure'* version.
* Get an unreliable bike, every trip has potential for adventure.