We appreciate and understand the price discussions, until someone gets the volume high enough as Allan mentioned it will be hard to get prices down.
Suppliers hardly even want to talk to you at 250 units of production ( we have learned this in the past year) it is barely a small prototype run. At 1000 pcs, it is only the start. You would need to be 5000 pieces plus to get into a good discount that would help you pass that onto your customers, thus lowing the final price.
To put that into perspective if your kit was $7500 x 5000 pcs = $37.5 million. It would be a big gamble for even a OEM at this point. But there will be a time in the near future that someone will take that risk.
Until then we will tweak our best to build a kit that has value for the dollar. At C3 we build the Carbon Fibre Rev chassis. It is $12,000 just for the carbon chassis and integrated fuel tank. The CAD time in that part and time to lay up and trim is unbelievable, but it also saves you 75 lbs for that $13,000 = $160 per pound weight savings cost, (that is chassis only with running boards, you assemble the rest). There are many people who cannot wait to get one.
The YETI follows along that line, each bolt on the kit is Titanium, the initial purchase of 30,000 titanium bolts that add value to our kit. Just the Titanium bolts on our kit all 104 of them would add up to $1500 retail on the YETI alone, never mind the Titanium front suspension arm, and that is just part of the goods we will unleash....
Our goal was 50 pounds lighter than the current mark...
right now it is a final price balance, Ti everything super high end, with Ti shafts, bolts, Ti a-arms, Ti suspension plates, Ti bumper, carbon chassis, carbon rails, FOX float 3 revo r's etc....a price balance VS weight...
Even if we got to 40lbs plus weight savings, how much better would you bike feel? Would it feel much more like a bike? How much better would it float? How much easier would it be to manage? How close would it come to your buddies turbo bike? When would it start to trench vs your buddie? If you could justify a bike that flat out rips with out a turbo, how much easier would it be just to have one bike and actually convert it back in the summer?
I could tell you, but I would have to kill you....lol...
The weight savings is way past the 20 pound speculators.
It will be 40+pounds weight savings, but we deciding the final number now.
40 pounds weight savings on a single cylinder is a lot of performance gained.
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