[motorcycle.com] - Dear Suter: One Man’s Rant

[Ninjette Newsbot]

Yesterday, Suter Racing‘s crack team of professionals started their retired MMX1 MotoGP racebike at the Swiss-Moto show. Its BMW inline-four and Akrapovic exhaust sounded crisp and impressive, but the Suter crew’s promotional angle made them look foolish.

You see, Suter decided to use a co-worker as a prop in a cheap ploy to pander to the crowd when they uncorked the noise. In doing so, they made their female co-worker look awkwardly incompetent, pinching the fingers of her left hand behind the clutch lever which was actually being operated by a man standing next to the bike. She reflexively recoiled and then placed her hands on the tank while the two men operated the clutch, starter and throttle. Clutch dork then grabbed poor Vivienne’s left hand and placed it back on the left grip as though she was a living doll (she showed remarkable patience throughout). Meanwhile over on the right side of the bike, the throttle man stood to the side and extended his arm to operate the throttle while Vivienne carefully placed her own right hand on the right switch cluster to assume something like a rider’s pose. “Rev-rev-rev” went the bike operated by two men. Sit-sit-sit did Vivienne atop the impressive sounding machine.

Sound awkward? You betcha! Sadly, such a display isn’t unique; similar vignettes regularly play out in the racing world. Meanwhile, real racers (females included) go about the business of, you know, actually being riders.

Suter Wasn’t Done.

In their infinite wisdom, they then proceeded to upload a video clip of the event to their ‘Suter 500’ Facebook page, making the brilliant decision to accompany the video with the text below (Click the image below to play video):



“Our divine Vivienne starts the Suter BMW MotoGP, probabely (sic) the loudest bike of the show. The beauty and another beast. Pure culture.”

Dear Suter Racing, Eskil and his organization represent world class thinking and superb engineering. Suter Racing is authentic, respect-worthy, and credible in its field. However, Vivienne did not start anything in this video. She sat on a motorcycle while her co-workers started and revved it. This is some shame-worthy pandering on your part, and I’m simply embarrassed for poor Vivienne.

“Pure culture?” More like: Pure bullshit. Authenticity matters. Why insult your fans with this tripe?

#SaveVivienne!

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