PRICE CUT! Last Set of Rumbux Rear Protection/Soft Pannier Bars

Status
Not open for further replies.

EricV

Riding, farkling, riding...
2011 Site Supporter
2012 Site Supporter
2013 Site Supporter
2014 Site Supporter
Joined
May 22, 2011
Messages
8,227
Location
Tupelo, MS
Bump to top. Still have this one set left.
 

EricV

Riding, farkling, riding...
2011 Site Supporter
2012 Site Supporter
2013 Site Supporter
2014 Site Supporter
Joined
May 22, 2011
Messages
8,227
Location
Tupelo, MS
Price below is correct and includes free shipping in CONUS. This will be the final availability of Rumbux in the US

Last set in stock below is ready for immediate shipment to customer.

Fits all years of the Super Tenere, XT1200Z & ZE

(1) Endurance Rear Protection Bars (also for soft pannier use) Ferro Black - $250 shipped in CONUS.




(1) set of Rear Protection bars for Honda CRF1000L also available.
 

Cycledude

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 29, 2016
Messages
3,997
Location
Rib lake wi
Apparently I missed it, So Rumbux is back in business making crash bars for the S10 ?
Edit
well apparently I either misread the post or something wacky happened to the forum, I now see this is an old leftover set only for the rear that you are selling. Sorry about the mixup .
 
Last edited:

EricV

Riding, farkling, riding...
2011 Site Supporter
2012 Site Supporter
2013 Site Supporter
2014 Site Supporter
Joined
May 22, 2011
Messages
8,227
Location
Tupelo, MS
Still have that one set left in stock. Someone needs these! :D
 

EricV

Riding, farkling, riding...
2011 Site Supporter
2012 Site Supporter
2013 Site Supporter
2014 Site Supporter
Joined
May 22, 2011
Messages
8,227
Location
Tupelo, MS
The last set sold on 01/20/21. No more Rumbux products are available for the Super Tenere from this seller.
 

Cycledude

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 29, 2016
Messages
3,997
Location
Rib lake wi
To me at least it seems strange that Rumbux would quit making the crash bars, apparently they are making better money somewhere else ?
 

EricV

Riding, farkling, riding...
2011 Site Supporter
2012 Site Supporter
2013 Site Supporter
2014 Site Supporter
Joined
May 22, 2011
Messages
8,227
Location
Tupelo, MS
Back at the end of 2018 when Rumbux took their annual break, they decided that they could no longer continue. Sales in South Africa were not strong enough to keep them profitable and in other markets, the very high cost of shipping and the exchange rate not always being very favorable impacted both the profitability and ability to maintain stock on hand.

Honestly, if I could have afforded to buy Rumbux bars by the container load, shipping by sea freight, I might have been able to make a big enough impact to keep Rumbux going. But doing orders of $5-15k and air freighting them to the US added cost, but also had the upside of flexibility for the market. I had a set back in '15 that I was never able to recover from well enough to go back to stocking bars in quantities. The other issue for me, was the rapid expansion of the product line. When I started, it was only Super Ten bars and I knew I would sell every set I ordered. At the end the offering covered Yamaha, Honda, BMW, KTM and Husqvarna and people were asking for more. Trying to stock some of everything is very expensive and all that product on the shelves that isn't selling well, is still money tied up that can't be spent on more product.

Rumbux is now a R&D business with only a few employees. They have been hoping to sell the intellectual property rights, (IP), and blueprints to someone that can go back into production, but to my knowledge, this has not occurred thus far. I even tried to send them some leads, but no equitable agreement was arrived at or parties were not interested. I don't have that info.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top