[claytonandson]

was just wondering if anyone heard about a questionable future of the stryker? rumors of lagging sale's...even though i have never run into another one, my local dealer says they come in 2 by 2 and sell quick. while the stryker is by means collectible, its demise after only a few runs would blow. glad i got my flame=ing copper when i did. dont think they have that one anymore....

 

[motochef]

I havent heard this rumor yet but in a way its kinda good for us. like you say it would be "collectible" so we'd be on one of a kind bikes. There is that old saying though.. "just because there aren't alot of something it doesn't mean its worth anything"

 

[wlfpak65]

Its all good....... I love being one of the few that has something that others dont..... Were in an ELITE Club GUYS!!! lol N GALS!!!

 

[christopher]

That would suck in the aftermarket world though. We don't have that many options to begin with. If the Stryker was discontinued a lot of manufacturers would stop making accessories for the Stryker. No reason to make parts if noone is going to buy them.

 

[Okda]

don't know about that but i know for sure that the yamaha dealer here in Egypt has been trying to get even one stryker with no success for nearly a year now

it seems yamaha is following a very bad marketing plan that this bike is rarely found outside USA

 

[MY LIFE]

We sort of covered this topic a while ago. The Stryker was limited to 1500 units world wide its first year, I'm not sure how many they produced for this year. I would hate to see Yamaha stop production, because we would have no more aftermarket parts and no more innovated ideas coming for this bike. On this subject I haven't heard of anything like this from Yamaha, so I'm guessing its just rumors from the Stryker haters.

http://www.yamahastarstryker.com/index.php/topic,2368.0.html

 

[dejablu110]

I really don't see this happening. The look, price, and size are very marketable

 

[sdsting]

On this note of limited Strykers… I’ve never seen another Stryker on the street here in San Diego where I ride. I pulled up next to a Raider at a stoplight and the owner was surprisingly impressed with my Stryker, but no Strykers. Do you guys see many where you ride?

 

[Skwerlee]

On this note of limited Strykers… I’ve never seen another Stryker on the street here in San Diego where I ride. I pulled up next to a Raider at a stoplight and the owner was surprisingly impressed with my Stryker, but no Strykers. Do you guys see many where you ride?

I didn't see another Stryker out on the road until about 9 or 10 months after I bought mine...and I ride almost every day.

 

[74novaguy]

My buddie is buying one and picking it up this week so Ill start seeing them on the road. The dealer Ive bought mine from has sold around 10 or so units since they came out. And hes a pretty small dealer here in California.

 

[wlfpak65]

On this note of limited Strykers… I’ve never seen another Stryker on the street here in San Diego where I ride. I pulled up next to a Raider at a stoplight and the owner was surprisingly impressed with my Stryker, but no Strykers. Do you guys see many where you ride?

& Where Is It Exactly???? Do You Ride???
I just saw a stocked STRYKER parked on 7th St by the Andaz Hotel In DT SD This Sat..... I was buzzin and thought i had brought my bike to DT and realized it didnt have pipes etc..... lol

 

[ktourville]

That would suck in the aftermarket world though. We don't have that many options to begin with. If the Stryker was discontinued a lot of manufacturers would stop making accessories for the Stryker. No reason to make parts if noone is going to buy them.

The good part to this would be all the prices of aftermarket parts made to date would be cut by more than half. I wouldn't complain about having 1 of 4000 of so Strykers ever made. Just means we would be the owners of a limited production, bad a$$ ride.

 

[dejablu110]

I see lots of Strykers around here

 

[JimmyA]

I've yet to see another Stryker on the road and I've had mine for almost two months now. How many 2011 models where made?

 

[MY LIFE]

Alright here's a pet peeve of mine. People responding to a post without reading the posts before it. Why ask a question if it's been answered a few lines above or in a previous post that you have been given to read? Sorry had to get that out of my system. I feel better. The answer is 1500 world wide. With only 1500 it is not uncommon not to see very many around your area. Like I said that's 1500 world wide. We know there is one in England, another in Egypt and some other non North American countries. In Canada there has to be at least 500, so doing simple math would mean that there would be less then 1000 in the USA. There is about 312 million Americans and out of that lets say 6 million bike riders. So only .00016 people would own a Stryker. Give or take a decimal moving one way or the other. Just a little more food for thought. If you move the decimal to the left one more and add the 0, that's your chances of winning the Power Ball. 8) So your chances right now of seeing another Stryker is just a little better then winning the lottery. We haven't had the amount of time HD has to saturate the market, so that the only bike you see is a HD. ;D

 

[UrbanRage]

Alright here's a pet peeve of mine. People responding to a post without reading the posts before it. Why ask a question if it's been answered a few lines above or in a previous post that you have been given to read? Sorry had to get that out of my system. I feel better. The answer is 1500 world wide. With only 1500 it is not uncommon not to see very many around your area. Like I said that's 1500 world wide. We know there is one in England, another in Egypt and some other non North American countries. In Canada there has to be at least 500, so doing simple math would mean that there would be less then 1000 in the USA. There is about 312 million Americans and out of that lets say 6 million bike riders. So only .00016 people would own a Stryker. Give or take a decimal moving one way or the other. Just a little more food for thought. If you move the decimal to the left one more and add the 0, that's your chances of winning the Power Ball. 8) So your chances right now of seeing another Stryker is just a little better then winning the lottery. We haven't had the amount of time HD has to saturate the market, so that the only bike you see is a HD. ;D

So how many were made

 

[Guest]

Alright here's a pet peeve of mine. People responding to a post without reading the posts before it. Why ask a question if it's been answered a few lines above or in a previous post that you have been given to read? Sorry had to get that out of my system. I feel better. The answer is 1500 world wide. With only 1500 it is not uncommon not to see very many around your area. Like I said that's 1500 world wide. We know there is one in England, another in Egypt and some other non North American countries. In Canada there has to be at least 500, so doing simple math would mean that there would be less then 1000 in the USA. There is about 312 million Americans and out of that lets say 6 million bike riders. So only .00016 people would own a Stryker. Give or take a decimal moving one way or the other. Just a little more food for thought. If you move the decimal to the left one more and add the 0, that's your chances of winning the Power Ball. 8) So your chances right now of seeing another Stryker is just a little better then winning the lottery. We haven't had the amount of time HD has to saturate the market, so that the only bike you see is a HD. ;D

I'm not sure you can have a .00016 of a people. You can, however, say that no more than one out of every 6000 bikes would be a Stryker.

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1500 worldwide?

 

[Kubalj]

On this note of limited Strykers… I’ve never seen another Stryker on the street here in San Diego where I ride. I pulled up next to a Raider at a stoplight and the owner was surprisingly impressed with my Stryker, but no Strykers. Do you guys see many where you ride?

Never. And I'm always looking. But when people see mine they always comment on how good it looks, or say something like they didn't think Yamaha would make a bike like the Stryker, or (still my favorite) "Where did you get the custom paint job?".

 

[Kubalj]

We sort of covered this topic a while ago. The Stryker was limited to 1500 units world wide its first year, I'm not sure how many they produced for this year. I would hate to see Yamaha stop production, because we would have no more aftermarket parts and no more innovated ideas coming for this bike. On this subject I haven't heard of anything like this from Yamaha, so I'm guessing its just rumors from the Stryker haters.

http://www.yamahastarstryker.com/index.php/topic,2368.0.html

Where did this number come from? I've looked online and haven't found anything definitive, but just from a production standpoint it doesn't seem prudent IMHO to limit production to 1500 units worldwide at a price of ~ $11,000 MSRP...that's just over $16,000,500... Or about (que the drum roll) $2,000,000 profit after sales and shipping. BUT, It costs more to re-tool and engineer than the total alone, not including marketing, etc...meaning it would equate to a net loss for Yamaha. Presumably they did a pre-market eval to determine viability, but I can't see an MBA giving a green-light production run to a bike with an initial launch designed to lose money. I guess I don't follow the logic if that truly is the case.

 

[MY LIFE]

Yamaha along with most companies will never give you their production numbers. Reason by knowing those numbers, when they come out with their sale numbers, you could figure out how many units were not sold, and those numbers could look unfavorably to a company. Car companies hate to give out those numbers, but I believe they are forced to. First even though 1500 seems low, it was a new models first year and you want not only to sell out the new model, but get a idea of future production numbers. Also if something goes wrong with the first role out of a new model you want to have a recall of a low number, not a large one. Also the Stryker shares a lot with the Raider, so on the assembly line it would be close to producing the same bike. As for where I found the number, as I said you can't find these numbers. But after a lot of reading the number was buried in a article I read from someone who had a connection to the company. Now the trick would be to find this same article again.

The .000166 is based on the 6 million bike riders and not the 312 mil pop.