BRP Open their doors to 10th year in Australia

[noboot]

BRP opened their doors for a Tour of the BRP Office and Training facilities here in Sydney Australia followed by a Bike ride Down the coast for a bit of Lunch. About 50 Spyders turned up for the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u9xTp0I1A4&feature=youtu.be

 

[Centurion]

Nice video, thank you for sharing it! Beautiful scenery and looked like everyone had a wonderful time.

 

[PrairieSpyder]

That must have been fun! Is that like the local Homecoming?

I wonder if that was a real tattoo. :dontknow:

 

[trikermutha]

Looked like a nice day and views :thumbup:

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

BRP HOMECOMING

Did you get to show any of the BRASS at BRP how to make real " windshield ARMS " :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack: ...... annnnnnnnd RT mirror attachments :yes::yes::yes:....................Mike :thumbup:

 

[BigGuy66]

Thanks for sharing. Looks like a lot of fun and the scenery is fantastic. Any freebies given out?

 

[Chupaca]

Very nice...

Looks like a fun day with nice crowd and great ryding conditions...:2thumbs: congrats....

 

[noboot]

Did you get to show any of the BRASS at BRP how to make real " windshield ARMS " :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack: ...... annnnnnnnd RT mirror attachments :yes::yes::yes:....................Mike :thumbup:

Tried to but couldn't pin anyone down for anymore than 7 seconds, actually didn't see very many "brass" there either

 

[Peter Aawen]

But there were more BRP 'Brass' present at that ^^ event than could be bothered to attend the Spyder Muster that happened just a week or so earlier in SA, an event that they'd known about & been invited to for over 12 months, an event that in earlier years proved to be one of the biggest gatherings of Spyders in this country & this year had over twice the number of Spyders & Ryders attending than went to the Sydney turn-out, but they couldn't even be bothered to attend.....

Or the Spyder Rides that happen regularly, the last one in Port Fairy earlier in the year, with about 80 Spyders attending, but again, little interest or support from BRP Australia.... despite requests & invites. Or any of the other Spyder gatherings that happen frequently around the country, gatherings that pretty much the same dedicated & hard working Spyder Ryders have put on for year after year with little if any support or interest from BRP Australia, events that've been occurring regularly since the inception of Spyders in the country, and yet they STILL ignore them or at best provide lip-service support :sour: (yeah, lip-service support is better than nothing, but then when you see things like this ^^ & the support it got vs the pittance they dole out to bigger & better longer term events, it becomes an insult! )

And yet they wonder why the very people who keep them going as a business think they have lost the plot entirely & don't have ANY idea of who their true supporters & ambassadors are & have been over the last decade.... :shocked: Unrecognised Supporters & Ambassadors who are rapidly losing any respect for BRP Australia! And unless they pull their heads outta the sand & look around to see who has truly been putting in the hard yards over the years & provide some support & recognition to them, they are going to loose a whole lot more than just long term supporters.... Hey, I'm just a newcomer to all this, only been a Spyder Ryder for a few years, but if it's obvious to me & the many others I've heard from, how come the BRP Australia mob can't see how they are snubbing & insulting their greatest long term supporters & the best Ambassadors they could have for the brand ever?!? Makes my blood boil (if you hadn't noticed! )

Climbing down off the soapbox now.... pps:

 

[Fearless]

Good on you Pete.

Your basically saying what a lot of Australian ryders think. Wish I could of been at the muster or rally but too tied up working.

By the way, when did you give up 4x4 . I remember you on 4wd action forum for quite a few years.

Cheers and beers

Frank

 

[Peter Aawen]

Didn't 'give it up' Frank, still there!! I'm actually still (fairly) active on the 4WD Action Forum & even in 4WD'ing in general, just nowhere near as physically active as I used to be!

Retirement due to a few increasingly annoying/debilitating health issues largely caused by my former service & the drugs entailed in treating them have severely restricted what I can get away with doing these days, so for the first time in over 40 years I currently have a 4WD sitting in the driveway that 1) hasn't taken me further than 100,000 km in the remote/extreme bush over the last 12 months; & 2) had a set of tires 'go off' due to their physical age instead of being worn out!! :shocked:

But, after the last heart/lung episode, all the specialists & Drs discussed it at length & while I got told 'NO 4WD'ing, rallying, or racing' I did get 'special dispensation' to continue Spyder Ryding & touring - apparently it's not as dangerous as remote & extreme 4Wheeling, & the pain management mob just love it too!! An hour of 'spirited Ryding' each day lets me drop one of the my daily doses of pain meds, so they are keen for me to continue Ryding... as are my family - apparently I get grumpy if I can't ryde or head bush regularly?!? Whodathunkit?? :dontknow:

 

[loisk]

The Sydney event was interesting on a number of levels.

It was definitely NOT like a homecoming.

We (spyder riders in oz) were only given a few weeks notice - maybe a month.
As Peter said, over 100 spyders were on their way home from the Muster in Adelaide, many many klms away, and only some few were heading to Sydney.

So, scheduling and publicity were lacking, limiting the pool of possible attendees.

It turned out that the Sydney event was for the announcement of a Spyder Ambassador couple for Australia. While a little pic of the ambassadors has been on our oz forums, nothing has appeared (up to yesterday) on the official spyder brp oz site.

Many of us are wondering what an Ambassador's role is?

I know there were five in the states, but now there are less (if any?) - what was their function? Where do/did their loyalties primarily lie?

This forms some background to peter's comments.

Meantime this impacts on the annual Muster - a spyder gathering which filled the gap left when BRP stopped running the annual Royale some years' ago. BRP have sponsored the dinner, but ongoing involvement is yet to be confirmed --- this all occurred at the same time as the Sydney event and ambassador announcement. You can understand the head-shaking going on.

Unless or until some detail of the ambassadors role, and some sign of brp continuing support of the muster appears, we are all at a bit of a loss.

BRP missed a golden opportunity to be at the muster - and it is almost adding insult to injury to see this new announcement, given the timing. Brp can make whatever decisions they like, but perhaps our oz head office has missed a chance to build on our communities of riders and has instead, perhaps inadvertently, created some division and uncertainty.

 

[loisk]

A few distances, so you get the picture. People were at the Adelaide muster from all these places, and more. You will see that the tyranny of distance simply meant that a trip to Sydney by the following week was unrealistic.

Adelaide to sydney 1374 km
adelaide to Perth 2691 km
adelaide to Darwin 3000 km
sydney to Darwin 3972 km
melbourne to Sydney only 876 km