No dealer here. Closest one is in Rockford, Illinois and he has the Wisconsin territory, and Ragan doesnt want to step on his toes. We had an option to purchase on a 5000 sf building with 3000 sq ft of shop space, a vacant lot next door to expand, plus Ragan said it would be an initial buy-in of $100k in inventory, which we could have borrowed...then the story changed back to he's not taking away JR's territory.
Story is there was a dealer in Wisconsin when it all started, but he quit or got bored or died after a couple years, I dont know, so JR bought everything from him, now he's the next coming of Obam...er, I mean Christ in 600's eyes. Anything 600 specific gets marked up 7-10% over list because he doesnt make enough, thus the buying straight from 600 for me. He is cheaper when he can substitute, things like heims and such, but Id rather get 600 stuff for the technical legality of it. The only thing I buy from him, is he sells spindle kits (spindle,ball joints, heims) for $134.95 a side, which is a good price.
I told him we would just do dirt, and JR could keep asphalt, no go. Check the website next year...not a single dirt rce listed anywhere, he only promotes asphalt.
Anyway, I'm going to keep on adding product lines to build my business anyway, have a meeting with Setrab on Monday, and have been talking with G-Force about become a dealer, along with the Amsoil and GoPro cameras we have now. Just going to add little stuff here and there. Plus our home track is going to be running dirt Karts now, so we will be expanding that way with our new Kart driver and my fabrication guys are already working on a prototype kart chassis...
Well, there I go off topic again...STEVE, throw up the little off topic smiley's at me again!
