Topic: Fledgling Mac Motorcycles email update

[Ecosse]

For those who remember I had been keeping tabs on Mac Motorcycles and been in touch with Miss Tracey P. It's been quiet over there for a while, and I thought they might be finished, but I recently received an email they likely send to all their fans. Posted below:



We’re a little behind (a cunning but chivalrous reference to The Glamorous Assistant’s posterior) but we’re making progress. Here’s a sense of how it’s going;

 Those clever folk at Caerbont Automotive Instruments over the border in Wales are busy making a unique speedo’ for the ‘Spud’ prototype. We’ve made them scratch their heads a bit asking for something which is a bit tricky but which is what we really want and fits with the integrity of Mac’s design. 

Mr Parker’s buried deep in his workshop at the seaside (Bournemouth is on the south coast and although it is full of tourists, old people and snooker players, it is officially the ‘happiest place to live in the UK’) Simon’s been burning the midnight oil making the prototype tank and we’ll put some photos up on the blog shortly to give you a sense of how it’s shaping-up (pardon the pun).

Things are spinning along nicely in north London too at E.T. Martin, with the prototype headlamps due shortly for fitting and testing. We’re trying a couple of different shapes and sizes which you’ll see on the blog soon and can, as always, please tell us what you think.

We’re fairly sure now that we can produce kits as well as complete Mac motorbikes. It makes sense for us to sell kits to America and Canada which can be ‘reunited’ with plentiful Buell Blast motors, and there are distinct savings to be made for our fans ‘across the pond’. We will be looking for bona fide distributors and builders in the US and Canada who share our philosophy, want to become ‘Mac-approved’ and who would like to offer our kits for customers to either assemble themselves or offer an assembly service for those who want a complete bike built to their own specification. For our fans elsewhere around the world, we’ll be able to build complete bikes here in England and ship them to you directly or send complete kits for final assembly by a Mac-approved workshop in your own country. Prices will reflect your assembly choice, preferred final specification and shipping cost, all of which will be clear when we start talking to you about your order.

We opened our news by declaring that we’re a little behind but we should explain more why that’s the case. We hope you’ve got the sense from our updates and blog that we’re trying as hard as we can to get things made here in England but it’s hard-going at times. British manufacturing has lost a lot of ground in our lifetime and finding the skills we need and a ‘can-do’ attitude has been tricky. Some can do what we want but don’t really want to, some have just lost the skills and some are close to ‘hanging-up-their-boots’ (an old English expression for when a sportsman decided to retire) and only work if they feel like it. We’ve done a lot of miles tracking these businesses down to help us and now think we have a good crew around us.

We’d really like to thank you here for your patience and continued support, it doesn’t go unnoticed. Please don’t stop telling us what you think, we’re always open to hear your thoughts and suggestions, we read them all and many of your comments have sharpened our thinking. Please bear with us; we’re itching to ride the ‘Spud’ as much as you are…

 

More soon, we promise.

 

With our best wishes

 

Miss Tracey Price aka. The Glamorous Assistant and the Chaps at Mac

Mac Motorcycles

Worcester

England

 

www.mac-motorcycles.com

info@mac-motorcycles.com

 

 

To see photographs of the first ever Mac Spud prototype please go to:  http://blog.mac-motorcycles.com

 

[Coyote13]

Nice! I had forgotten about these guys, great that they're still moving along!  I, for one, would totally sport a Mac'ed out Blast.

[Really?]

I would but I can imagine these will be pricey.

[Ecosse]

it will be interesting to see what these (for the u.s.) kits go for. i'm excited to know they are still on task with this and thinking distributorship.

i had mixed feelings about the blast engine if only because i thought building a brand around a defunct motor seemed suicidal. but they seemed to have thought this out.

the prototype is impressive.