Factory Tour

I think 'warehouse tour' would be closer to the truth from what we saw.

 

Did you get to see any production lines actually producing motorcycles at any point?

 

We dived over to Hinckley on a whim travelling back from Stratford so we didn't do the tour, just had a nose around the museum. There are some places where you can see through to a bit the factory but I didn't see any production going on. We only got a few glimpses of certain bits fo the factory, though. I'm sure there are people around here who've done the tour and can say what's left to see.

 

They were putting together Tiger 1200's when we were there - you could follow the progress around the factory and see the cranks being ground and polished - and a bloke putting pinstripes on Speed Triple wheels by hand. You cannot take pictures in the factory itself so any photos will be of exhibits in the museum.

 

When was this?
I wonder if the fella doing the pinstripes got offered a re-location package to Thailand?

 

It was April 2019

 

Here's two idiots looking quite smug about it!

 

Maybe it was the company that made the visit so enjoyable

 

Are they GERMAN?

 

Ok, so have they moved the whole production line down to Thailand?
Wasn't aware of that.

 

People with those type of panniers are always GERMAN or of German decent ;-)

 

I thought they were Thai takeaway delivery boxes, standard on all models now?