BE AWARE-IF YOU WANT TO BUY AN AVENTON

[stompandgo]

How hard was it to get a couple of demo bikes? The stats are all really good. They look so cool. Dual power meters built in! I recall when that just an aftermarket feature was like $2200, not installed. No range extenders for them yet. Don't name margins but to sell them you must be okay. Some say dealer assembly required. That is good. Everything is as proprietary as hell to the devil. Dealers must love that too.

Not hard at all. It was part of the dealer agreement at signing.

Distribution is another matter. X-Lab prioritizes DTC. Most bikes are in stock through that channel. The way they release product to dealers is via the "drop" method. AMFLOW does this, too. We get an email that X number of model Y will be available tomorrow at 10:00am. Place your orders at 10:00 or risk losing out. It's a totally crappy way to treat their dealers. X-Lab, for us, is very much a secondary brand. So if they want to play that way, we play. We only spend our capital on models that fit the niche where other manufacturers are not as competitive. We do not sell anything that will jeopardize our main lines, at least until the whole industry collapses to Big China.