I just installed my kit...what sold me was the video where the test bike was dropped and the saddlebag protection looked scratched...but it just wiped away and looked undamaged...the kit was easily installed and looks good on a white wing. I really appreciate the effort that Traxxion made to produce a high quialty product like this for our Gold Wing
It frustrates me when morons ask stupid questions without forethought. Max your company provides a GREAT product. GREAT products are not inexpensive but they ARE of SUPERIOR quality. If people in these forums want cheap and inexpensive parts maybe they should purchase Huffys instead of Goldwings. Keep up the great work. You should never have to explain your costs.
Unfortunately you can't ask anything but a stupid question (as you call it) if you don't understand how to even create the proper question without the supporting information to correctly formulate the idea that is being questioned. Creating anything goes through the stupid question process until a better shaped question is created in the mind to further the process. That being said, Max is one of those creative people that has struggled through the process and has the connections in the business world to create great products for all of us. Thanks Max for all the great innovative works you do!
Max your bravery and steadfastness is amazing, a lesser man would have given up, that's why your business is successful, that's why people come to you. Congratulations Max. May you continue much longer.
Great explanation to those who have no common sense. Reminds me of a Bell helmets slogan back around 1986, "If you have a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet". Production isn't free or cheap, you're getting quality products from Traxxion Dynamics!
This type of explanation is always interesting. Since shop classes in high school more than 50 years ago, I have always been intrigued by machines and how parts are manufactured. I loved putting things like this together with what I did in IT. I actually got to work with engineers and architects when we got our first 3D printer, a pretty amazing process to render a drawing and get it to a 3D printer.
😀 Fifth time watching this! Retired from working with Aviation Engineers and miss it soooo much! You bring me back to daily meetings 😎 (ideas, raw products, supply chains, markets, materials, applications, durations, maintenance, design, production, suppliers, etc etc etc)! BTW, rec'd your KIT yesterday and noticed when I cleaned the bike 🙆♂️🤦♂️ I did my usual paint-protection application of self-healing clear 3-M Film 🙆♂️
@@TraxxionI just finished the left side which I wanted to do first since this is the kickstand side which aims down away from site. I first used painters tape identify the bag location so I can cut away the paint-film coating I applied. This also gave me the straight line that helped for my final application. I forgot to drop the tail section below the crown just centering the bumper on the crown straight. Now the mirror went on centered too. I need to make a decision for the right mirror to make a equal space along the top of the tail section which would be seen more. Folded back and centered I noticed a different gap along the top.
Amazing process Max. Thanks for the breakdown! Most people have no idea the process needed to create something these days that takes the "around the world" actions that are involved. (Ordered mine this morning - full kit).
I worked as an electrical engineer for 43 years, now retired. I would design an electric distribution system for a multi-story building for months. Then someone would look at it and think it took a few weeks. It takes multiple designs to get the final product to work. Great job, Max!!
I'll admit that I'm one that doesn't always realize how much goes into some of this stuff...and I'm not even opposed to a company making a profit. Thank you for the explanation and details.
You are amazingly hard working and inventive. I hope every Honda Goldwing owner purchases something from your catalog so that you can make a profit and keep on inventing better parts in 2024.
While I watch Max explain this amazing process, I’m reminded of the trip my parents took us onto China in 1983. We flew a DC3 Gooney Bird from the Beijing airport to the capital of Inner Mongolia. At that time, there was not a single privately owned vehicle on the streets. Every street corner was like the beginning of the Tour de France with hundreds of people on bicycles. What I find astonishing is, since that time, that both the private sector and ultimately our national trade policies allowed the near total destruction of all US based manufacturing. I’m an IT and real estate entrepreneur and not a big government guy. But National Industrial policies that protect our industries are absolutely what we needed then and what we need now. Shame on the private sector leaders to have not been able to make the right decision and off shored all their manufacturing. If they do that - we should tax them to death. Maybe then they will realize that young men need alternative employment besides a 4 year degree and the debt that entails. Not everyone wants to sit in front of a screen and become a “knowledge worker”! I live in a historic neighborhood in a 110 year old Arts and Crafts home. The Crafts piece of that phrase is a shortening of “Craftsman”. We had it in the US 100 years ago and we have come very, very, very close to losing it. But as Warren Buffet says, “it’s never a good idea to bet against the US”! As much as their is to be pessimistic about our country’s direction, just ask 1000 random immigrants where they would like to go and I will bet my life on the fact that NONE of them will select Iran ( where I was born ), China or Russia! It’s the amazing concept of FREEDOM which becomes all too familiar and mundane unless you really make an effort to remind yourself just how INCREDIBLE it is. We have it in spades in the US and man o man am I grateful my parents left Iran in the late ‘50s to come to the US.
What a tremendous story! "Freedom isn't Free"... Americans now think it is simply an entitlement... and they don't value it. I love when an immigrant speaks so passionately about the value of freedom. Americans need to be constantly reminded.
Mr. Max….Big shout out to your sales team Man. They rock and so does your Teams products. Can not wait to see the Full Kit Delivered and get to installing. Keep on Keeping ON and Cheers from Alaska AK49👊🇺🇸👊
What an honest in depth explanation of the process. What a shame you have to justify your retail costs to folks who have no clue why parts cost what they do and how businesses pay their overheads and remain in profit on items.
Only one way to test a shark suit - love it! Keep going and fighting the good fight, and be indifferent to anyone and anything interfering with your mission, esp. stressing over what any detractors say or do. It only distracts you from what you are there to do. "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only frustrates you and annoys the pig."
Max, you mention people who do not like you, my guess is that they do not like you because your are successful and they are not. I worked for one of the Big 3 automotive companies for 40 years in both manufacturing and product side, much of it as an Engineering Group Manager. All you explained here is quite obvious to me, but to those who have different backgrounds I hope it is a good education. Thanks for all you do.
I can't imagine trying to make an entire car come together... that was solid and reliable. It blows me away what you can buy for $50,000. I lease a GMC truck every 3 years, and once I pick it up, I pretty much never go back to the dealer. There's rarely anything wrong with them.
BTW, the material these bumpers are made of are of a SUPERIOR unique material! This shit reminds me of the million-mile semi tires with the soft-compound of Formula-1 open wheel race cars 🙆♂️😎😍💪
I think what may be lacking here by some is an understanding of market demand and economies of scale. Hopefully, your demonstration opened some minds. Honda produces at least 10 times the amount of Civics that they do Goldwings. However, a Goldwing and a Civic sell for around the same price even though the Civic has more materials features and labor baked into it as well as engineering costs. The reason they can do this is that they can spread the cost of the engineering over far more units, as well as other models that share parts thus lowering the unit price. Think about it, If Honda only made about 10,000 Civics a year, they would cost a lot more than they do and so would the aftermarket parts for them.
Honda also has to create so many "over runs" to keep in warehouses for replacements over years and hope they don't run out or get stuck with.a ton of extras!
I will be putting in an order for a few of your parts after the new year including the complete tip over kit and the straightening tools and a couple more of your parts so I have all I’ll need if my bike goes over (I have a 2021 tour) , my question to you after watching this video and you knowing all the time and cost you have into this product and some of the negative comments you get , would you do it again and I’m just referring to this one product?
"Fool me once".... It's a great question. As I said in my "Explitive" video, I've never been asked for a by product by even a fraction of the people that asked for tipover protection. I expected to sell hundreds the first week. Then I find out people are shocked by the price, which came my point: "What did you think it was going to cost?" Just Honda's two bars that don't work cost $500.
Seriously Max I like you're tip over product if it were a little more affordable. I would more than likely purchase it...I understand you're concerns. I invented a product for Harley dressers that made substantial profit after investment for 5 years. Had I went through the patent process is would have been a far less lucrative investment and I would have had to charge more than the product was worth.These days its a gamble at best..Yes someone took my product got a patent and sent me a letter to stop selling or be sued ... That's life.
Btw, now that you have all process steps and necessary vendors and service provider relationships defined for these products, can you offer similar products for other high-end bikes like BMW, Harley, Suzuki, Yamaha, KTM and bikes that use expensive add-on cases like Givi bags? Obviously, you have to do the measuring and texture selection which is an extra cost. That would hugely expand your potential market and the marginal and per unit costs should go down considerably
Unfortunately, each of those processes is the same, and the cost is the same, short of finding the right adhesives. Every set of molds is $50+K. The only way for cost to go down is to sell thousands and thousands, not hundreds. Every time you make another run, the cost of the development gets spread out.
I am seriously blown away at everybody whining like babies over $400 plus dollars Max seriously I would seriously not be explaining jack shit to tell everyone how much it cost to explain yourself to their dumb asses I would not do it you just spent another 1 thousand dollars of your time lol to explain why they are crying over $400 really lol if someone gonna be crying over $400 for 30k motorcycle they got no business even having a bike lol EVERYBODY PLEASE LEAVE THIS GREAT MAN WHO IS A GENIUS ALONE who takes time which he does not have to do to make your bike better
I stand in front of the sign in pretty much every video, say my company name, and put it in the title of every video, and it's in the title of my channel. Not sure what else I can do. www.traxxion.com
The average youtube channel always provides a clickable link to their web site/store in each and every video. You instead have to make smart A comments..A smart business man would have said web address included in said sign in the background..@@Traxxion
Hi Max, I own and run a successful injection moulding and toolmaking business in the U.K. Your moulds are probably 1+1 injection moulding tools that run a pair at a time left and right. The shut off faces will be flat, I can see this by the mirror protection piece being flat before getting applied. If they are made from thermoplastic rubber you should have a UV stabiliser added or they will turn light grey over time. If you really want them to last they would be made from an injection moulding grade of polyurethane. Your costs are way over inflated in your video and the tooling dimensions are exaggerated too. Both these parts would run on a 150T easily which isn’t that big. I would have some sympathy for your costs and outlay but when exaggerating as you do I’m afraid can’t. I accept you will delete this comment. Your passion is unquestionable but please be truthful.
Well Steven even if the whole process only cost half as much as Max said and the time was half it is still a lot of money and time to come up with a product for that amount of money that is protecting the price of the replacement bike parts and that’s not including labor cost, I have a fellow rider with the same 2021 GW tour as I have and it has been dropped on both sides and I believe he is looking at over $2000. Bucks to fix , so $450 is kinda cheap ? But maybe you know more than I do about it send me a video on the one your making and maybe I’ll buy yours at half the price?
I'll leave this post, and just say you are wrong. I'm no liar. I'm certain if YOU are in the injection mold business, YOU can make YOUR tooling on YOUR machines for half of what I have to BUY them for. So don't be so stupid as to suggest YOUR cost to mold a part and MY cost to mold a part are the same.
Purchase here: www.traxxion.com
I just installed my kit...what sold me was the video where the test bike was dropped and the saddlebag protection looked scratched...but it just wiped away and looked undamaged...the kit was easily installed and looks good on a white wing.
I really appreciate the effort that Traxxion made to produce a high quialty product like this for our Gold Wing
It frustrates me when morons ask stupid questions without forethought. Max your company provides a GREAT product. GREAT products are not inexpensive but they ARE of SUPERIOR quality. If people in these forums want cheap and inexpensive parts maybe they should purchase Huffys instead of Goldwings. Keep up the great work. You should never have to explain your costs.
Unfortunately you can't ask anything but a stupid question (as you call it) if you don't understand how to even create the proper question without the supporting information to correctly formulate the idea that is being questioned. Creating anything goes through the stupid question process until a better shaped question is created in the mind to further the process.
That being said, Max is one of those creative people that has struggled through the process and has the connections in the business world to create great products for all of us. Thanks Max for all the great innovative works you do!
Thank you both!
The euphoria of low cost is quickly overcome by the agony of low quality. Max your products are quality. Keep on keeping on.
Thank you.
Max your bravery and steadfastness is amazing, a lesser man would have given up, that's why your business is successful, that's why people come to you.
Congratulations Max. May you continue much longer.
Great explanation to those who have no common sense. Reminds me of a Bell helmets slogan back around 1986, "If you have a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet". Production isn't free or cheap, you're getting quality products from Traxxion Dynamics!
Exactly!
This type of explanation is always interesting. Since shop classes in high school more than 50 years ago, I have always been intrigued by machines and how parts are manufactured. I loved putting things like this together with what I did in IT. I actually got to work with engineers and architects when we got our first 3D printer, a pretty amazing process to render a drawing and get it to a 3D printer.
Printing is the future... they are now starting to print stainless steel even!
😀 Fifth time watching this! Retired from working with Aviation Engineers and miss it soooo much! You bring me back to daily meetings 😎 (ideas, raw products, supply chains, markets, materials, applications, durations, maintenance, design, production, suppliers, etc etc etc)! BTW, rec'd your KIT yesterday and noticed when I cleaned the bike 🙆♂️🤦♂️ I did my usual paint-protection application of self-healing clear 3-M Film 🙆♂️
Enjoy! Let me know if you have any problems, since you are an early installer. max@traxxion.com
@@TraxxionI just finished the left side which I wanted to do first since this is the kickstand side which aims down away from site.
I first used painters tape identify the bag location so I can cut away the paint-film coating I applied. This also gave me the straight line that helped for my final application. I forgot to drop the tail section below the crown just centering the bumper on the crown straight. Now the mirror went on centered too. I need to make a decision for the right mirror to make a equal space along the top of the tail section which would be seen more. Folded back and centered I noticed a different gap along the top.
@@apriliajo5030 Ok, you are doing fine so far!
Amazing process Max. Thanks for the breakdown! Most people have no idea the process needed to create something these days that takes the "around the world" actions that are involved. (Ordered mine this morning - full kit).
Glad it was helpful!
I worked as an electrical engineer for 43 years, now retired. I would design an electric distribution system for a multi-story building for months. Then someone would look at it and think it took a few weeks. It takes multiple designs to get the final product to work. Great job, Max!!
It's rare when you get it right on the first try.
I've never seen anyone get it right on the 1st try 😃 😊
I'll admit that I'm one that doesn't always realize how much goes into some of this stuff...and I'm not even opposed to a company making a profit. Thank you for the explanation and details.
You are amazingly hard working and inventive. I hope every Honda Goldwing owner purchases something from your catalog so that you can make a profit and keep on inventing better parts in 2024.
I hope so too!
Thanks for your hard work Max.
You got it.
While I watch Max explain this amazing process, I’m reminded of the trip my parents took us onto China in 1983. We flew a DC3 Gooney Bird from the Beijing airport to the capital of Inner Mongolia. At that time, there was not a single privately owned vehicle on the streets. Every street corner was like the beginning of the Tour de France with hundreds of people on bicycles.
What I find astonishing is, since that time, that both the private sector and ultimately our national trade policies allowed the near total destruction of all US based manufacturing.
I’m an IT and real estate entrepreneur and not a big government guy. But National Industrial policies that protect our industries are absolutely what we needed then and what we need now. Shame on the private sector leaders to have not been able to make the right decision and off shored all their manufacturing. If they do that - we should tax them to death. Maybe then they will realize that young men need alternative employment besides a 4 year degree and the debt that entails. Not everyone wants to sit in front of a screen and become a “knowledge worker”!
I live in a historic neighborhood in a 110 year old Arts and Crafts home. The Crafts piece of that phrase is a shortening of “Craftsman”. We had it in the US 100 years ago and we have come very, very, very close to losing it. But as Warren Buffet says, “it’s never a good idea to bet against the US”!
As much as their is to be pessimistic about our country’s direction, just ask 1000 random immigrants where they would like to go and I will bet my life on the fact that NONE of them will select Iran ( where I was born ), China or Russia!
It’s the amazing concept of FREEDOM which becomes all too familiar and mundane unless you really make an effort to remind yourself just how INCREDIBLE it is. We have it in spades in the US and man o man am I grateful my parents left Iran in the late ‘50s to come to the US.
What a tremendous story! "Freedom isn't Free"... Americans now think it is simply an entitlement... and they don't value it. I love when an immigrant speaks so passionately about the value of freedom. Americans need to be constantly reminded.
Mr. Max….Big shout out to your sales team Man. They rock and so does your Teams products. Can not wait to see the Full Kit Delivered and get to installing. Keep on Keeping ON and Cheers from Alaska AK49👊🇺🇸👊
Alaska! No wimps up there.
What an honest in depth explanation of the process. What a shame you have to justify your retail costs to folks who have no clue why parts cost what they do and how businesses pay their overheads and remain in profit on items.
I wonder how much it costs Apple per iPhone? They will never tell.
Amazing process! Thanks for sticking it out to make what works!
You are so welcome!
I own a few of your amazing products and will own your tip over protection in the very near future! Thank you and your team.
Awesome! Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating. You should teach a business class. Thanks for the education.
Wow, thanks!
Only one way to test a shark suit - love it! Keep going and fighting the good fight, and be indifferent to anyone and anything interfering with your mission, esp. stressing over what any detractors say or do. It only distracts you from what you are there to do. "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only frustrates you and annoys the pig."
Well said!
Nothing about motorcycles is cheap, nice video Max
Thank you.
Max, you mention people who do not like you, my guess is that they do not like you because your are successful and they are not. I worked for one of the Big 3 automotive companies for 40 years in both manufacturing and product side, much of it as an Engineering Group Manager. All you explained here is quite obvious to me, but to those who have different backgrounds I hope it is a good education. Thanks for all you do.
I can't imagine trying to make an entire car come together... that was solid and reliable. It blows me away what you can buy for $50,000. I lease a GMC truck every 3 years, and once I pick it up, I pretty much never go back to the dealer. There's rarely anything wrong with them.
Awesome insights Max!
Glad to share.
Thanks Max, I just received my kit. Like you said, I just want to bring down the cost, if I drop my bike.
PRACTICE installing before you take the tape off! Take your time! Good luck!
BTW, the material these bumpers are made of are of a SUPERIOR unique material! This shit reminds me of the million-mile semi tires with the soft-compound of Formula-1 open wheel race cars 🙆♂️😎😍💪
Thanks for noticing!
Traxxion Dynamic is pure quality folks
I think what may be lacking here by some is an understanding of market demand and economies of scale. Hopefully, your demonstration opened some minds.
Honda produces at least 10 times the amount of Civics that they do Goldwings. However, a Goldwing and a Civic sell for around the same price even though the Civic has more materials features and labor baked into it as well as engineering costs. The reason they can do this is that they can spread the cost of the engineering over far more units, as well as other models that share parts thus lowering the unit price. Think about it, If Honda only made about 10,000 Civics a year, they would cost a lot more than they do and so would the aftermarket parts for them.
This is definitely the "next level" of my discussion, but I have to "start 'em off somewhere".... hahaha!
You should add the link to the parts in the video description every time. #protip
Good idea!
How easy is it to remove the adhesive from the lid if for any reason one decides to to take the protection off?
It takes some time and some adhesive remover or contact cleaner.
Honda also has to create so many "over runs" to keep in warehouses for replacements over years and hope they don't run out or get stuck with.a ton of extras!
I run a business for years. There is a lot of people who think we don't eat food or pay bills in this country.
I will be putting in an order for a few of your parts after the new year including the complete tip over kit and the straightening tools and a couple more of your parts so I have all I’ll need if my bike goes over (I have a 2021 tour) , my question to you after watching this video and you knowing all the time and cost you have into this product and some of the negative comments you get , would you do it again and I’m just referring to this one product?
"Fool me once".... It's a great question. As I said in my "Explitive" video, I've never been asked for a by product by even a fraction of the people that asked for tipover protection. I expected to sell hundreds the first week.
Then I find out people are shocked by the price, which came my point: "What did you think it was going to cost?" Just Honda's two bars that don't work cost $500.
Seriously Max I like you're tip over product if it were a little more affordable. I would more than likely purchase it...I understand you're concerns. I invented a product for Harley dressers that made substantial profit after investment for 5 years. Had I went through the patent process is would have been a far less lucrative investment and I would have had to charge more than the product was worth.These days its a gamble at best..Yes someone took my product got a patent and sent me a letter to stop selling or be sued ... That's life.
Btw, now that you have all process steps and necessary vendors and service provider relationships defined for these products, can you offer similar products for other high-end bikes like BMW, Harley, Suzuki, Yamaha, KTM and bikes that use expensive add-on cases like Givi bags? Obviously, you have to do the measuring and texture selection which is an extra cost. That would hugely expand your potential market and the marginal and per unit costs should go down considerably
Unfortunately, each of those processes is the same, and the cost is the same, short of finding the right adhesives. Every set of molds is $50+K.
The only way for cost to go down is to sell thousands and thousands, not hundreds. Every time you make another run, the cost of the development gets spread out.
I am seriously blown away at everybody whining like babies over $400 plus dollars Max seriously I would seriously not be explaining jack shit to tell everyone how much it cost to explain yourself to their dumb asses I would not do it you just spent another 1 thousand dollars of your time lol to explain why they are crying over $400 really lol if someone gonna be crying over $400 for 30k motorcycle they got no business even having a bike lol EVERYBODY PLEASE LEAVE THIS GREAT MAN WHO IS A GENIUS ALONE who takes time which he does not have to do to make your bike better
YEAH!
MY KIT ARRIVES TODAY
Practice, practice, practice before you actually try and stick it on!
What site? are you referring to...Perhaps you could put a link to the site in you're video's.
I stand in front of the sign in pretty much every video, say my company name, and put it in the title of every video, and it's in the title of my channel. Not sure what else I can do. www.traxxion.com
The average youtube channel always provides a clickable link to their web site/store in each and every video. You instead have to make smart A comments..A smart business man would have said web address included in said sign in the background..@@Traxxion
@@obwan7217 Thanks, I typed out our web address, and pinned it to the top of the thread.
What is the cost if I brought the bike to you to install?
We'll install a kit for $50, and we can do that by appointment, while you wait.
You buy a 30K motorcycle an worry about a $400 part 🤔
Most people probably just making payments. Trying to protect there investment.
I'm with you.
Damn good point brother
@@bobbyschroeder7068if that’s the case they should go above to make their investment safer
Buy a gold wing, you don't need to do anything to it. I guess you do after all.😮
Hi Max, I own and run a successful injection moulding and toolmaking business in the U.K.
Your moulds are probably 1+1 injection moulding tools that run a pair at a time left and right. The shut off faces will be flat, I can see this by the mirror protection piece being flat before getting applied. If they are made from thermoplastic rubber you should have a UV stabiliser added or they will turn light grey over time. If you really want them to last they would be made from an injection moulding grade of polyurethane. Your costs are way over inflated in your video and the tooling dimensions are exaggerated too. Both these parts would run on a 150T easily which isn’t that big. I would have some sympathy for your costs and outlay but when exaggerating as you do I’m afraid can’t.
I accept you will delete this comment.
Your passion is unquestionable but please be truthful.
Well Steven even if the whole process only cost half as much as Max said and the time was half it is still a lot of money and time to come up with a product for that amount of money that is protecting the price of the replacement bike parts and that’s not including labor cost, I have a fellow rider with the same 2021 GW tour as I have and it has been dropped on both sides and I believe he is looking at over $2000. Bucks to fix , so $450 is kinda cheap ? But maybe you know more than I do about it send me a video on the one your making and maybe I’ll buy yours at half the price?
You go Stan 😂
I'll leave this post, and just say you are wrong. I'm no liar. I'm certain if YOU are in the injection mold business, YOU can make YOUR tooling on YOUR machines for half of what I have to BUY them for. So don't be so stupid as to suggest YOUR cost to mold a part and MY cost to mold a part are the same.
You’ll know best then 👍🏻