one in the crowd eh? you think i meant anything personal? this is the AF section and shit gets tossed around here...I guess i just thought mps put the decals on the bike for some reason, i'm sorry i jumped the gun. The graphics look cool bro, ease off the exclamations though...AUSSIECR500AF wrote:There is always one in the crowd. Balaclava, the decals were designed by myself. MPS had nothing to do with it. My rational behind the design was as follows.
Its my bike, i own it, so I can put whatever I want on it. Its that simple really!!!!!!. It doesn't show in the picture, but there is a C at the end of the AF. You cant see it because the font color is white....
As for trademarks etc......, well, while you spend time online looking for this "so called" trademark, I will be on the track looking for the next double to clear.
Lets be real now. The 500 community is small to say the least. We are a family bonded by the very fact that NOTHING is better than a Honda CR500, modified or not, Irrespective of who/how it was built. Using a little commonesense, rationality would dictate that MOST people looking to purchase a 500AF would buy based on an educated choice. Its definately not an impulse desicion. This being said, when people come up and enquire about "getting their hands on an AF", I recommend MPS, SERVICE HONDA and TeemTrouble. Why? Because they build quality bikes. Its then up to the customer to decide who to go with. Many factors are taken into consideration apart from the quality, variables such as customer service, costs, history, people's opinions etc.........
So in short, a CR500AF is the bike (in my opinion only). SERVICE HONDA, MPS or Teemtrouble is the brand for which it stands on. I think 99% of people on this site realise this and worry about other pressing issues such as "where to ride next", or, "what is the latest bling I can throw on my bike"
Happy and safe riding to all.
I had a Gen 3 450 for over a year now, hit a jump i shouldn't have and destroyed my ankle...i still can't even come close to walking properly...i like to read up on things like cr500 gossip between your beloved mps or S/H, and how DIY people (like my self) build their bikes and it's because i have alot of time on my god damn hands. personally i don't think either of them come close to TTM bikes (and neither does anyone on this site, except the people with mps bikes) and putting mikes companys name beside them is actually kind of offensive because there is no way mps bikes are even close to the same quality...
Don't try and convince yourself of that neither...
If your educated choice was actually well researched, you would have a ttm bike.
Have fun riding, but one thing you shouldn't do on this site is tell people who have built bikes on their own that they should ride more then they reasearch...you don't have any fuckin clue how much anyone rides...
Btw aussie buddy, in Canada there is shit called snow it kind of makes riding right now extremely difficult...keep on educating yourself it's doing you real well...
Afterall, he could be riding a 450...
Was it that obvious?
