Industry responds to Chinese knock offs of Pit Bull race stands

Dec 31, 2006, From a press release issued by KWS Motorsports

In cased you missed it here:
http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=27852

You can really see it here:
http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=128231

As an industry and a community we should not allow "manufactures" to blatantly steal other companies ideas and then prosper from it. Charlie VanValkenburgh and Pit Bull (http://pit-bull.com) represents the very core of our sport. A racer who loved the sport so much that he quit his career as a rocket scientist to fill a void that the racing community needed....A race stand that held up to the riggers of real use. He built his company making the best products he could and then supporting his customers the best way he knows how. From that humble beginning he has grown his company to include more products like dampers, spools and tire tree's. All of the Pit Bull products carry the same incredibly high level of quality, durability, and engineering. The best part....Charlie and Pit Bull still offer the same customer service that they did in the beginning and even more racer support..

This incredible supporter our sport is getting ripped off in front our very eyes and we as a community are letting it happen. I am asking that all of us step up and defend the supporters, creators, and innovators in this sport by not letting the copy cat companies prosper. I am asking that as members of this wonderful community of motorcycle roadracers that we support the companies that support us. We support the companies that create better products for us to use. Buy the original, buy the product from the guy who actually designed it and built with his own two hands instead of the guy who bought a product and then shipped it to China to be copied and made cheaper.

Competition is good, it is what this sport is based on and it improves the products we use. Imports are good, it keeps pricing realistic in an already ultra expensive sport. Blatant theft of ideas and design is bad and if we let it happen it will eventually ruin our sport.

I believe in Pit Bulls products and I believe they are worth every penny that Pit Bull charges. They are made in the USA by US workers and a good portion of the money that Charlie makes on the stuff he sells he give back to racers in the form of contingency.

In an effort to do our part in helping Pit Bull, KWS Motorsports will match the other companies price on it's blatant copy of Pit Bulls Tire Tree's. Of course I would encourage you to buy the product straight from Pit Bull at retail, but if we can do our small part in keeping people from buying copy cat products based purely on price the this what we will do. I don't know how long we can afford to do it and I don't know how long we will need to do it, but this is what we are going to do.

Thank you all for loving this sport as much as I do and please do what's right.

Chip
KWS Motorsports
http://www.KWSmotorsports.com