Long rant just conversation...
I'm going to play the devil's advocate for a minute. I'm involved in lots of different hobby genres if you will. So, I get the "scrambler kit" idea.
One of my hobbies are Ford Model T's. Back in the day(1920's), you could buy all sorts of aftermarket speedster bodies. Single seaters with boat tails, aftermarket overhead valve kits, headers, intakes, carbs, etc... When factory racing started heating up, and T's were plentiful, all the kids started stripping off body parts, building headers, making adaptor plates for overhead valve heads on T blocks, gusseting and chopping frames to lower them, and they all started looking the same in the early days of hot rodding. People with money, who were a little more serious, could build high end copies of track hero cars from catalogs. (I have all those early catalogs and it's quite interesting). More money, less time=catalog Less money, more time=build/modify yourself.
Today, aftermarket steel and fiberglass Ford roadster bodies for example, start at $5500 and up to build another carbon copy, small block chevy powered, open wheeled roadster. They are all the same with little deviation. In a group at a car show, they are all pretty similar depending on the 'artist's' rendition IMHO. You can build one without a single factory part. On the road, your heart skips a beat when you see one fly by at 80mph! Something emotional happens.
People are still building (decades later) model T racer replicas from the '30's and '40's...and they all pretty much look alike within a certain set of parameters. Although the purists frown down on racer T's, The general public flips out on them and the prices reflect these modified time capsules from days gone by. Any open wheel, wire wheeled car flying down the road will literally make people of all ages and genres flip out.
(Remember the Import car aftermarket bolt on trend of the 2000's? That's gonna come back when those kids are 40.)
On to motorcycles. There are motorcycles that I HAD to have. When I realized that I couldn't afford the RnineT that I HAD to have, I had to find an alternative. I looked at the K100 and realized that no two looked alike (to me, in the beginning anyways). To me, this bike is a blank slate or canvas on which I could customize to my liking. $1500 later, I'm in and creating my own 'rendition'.
Someone had the vision and took that first step to set the "parameters" on which we ALL build K100s. As more and more folks start catching the "HAD to have bug" like I just did, I predict that the prices are going to go up...way up. It's how people are paying $5k for a worn out CB750 with a fiberglass tail...unbelievable really.
As people with less time but more money can buy into having a ready made 1000cc enduro, basically. It's really going to bolster the aftermarket and resale for our bikes. IMO this guy is a forward thinking one. One day, a run of K100 Scrambler "kits" may bring huge money just like the rare bullet hole riddled, rusted out aftermarket T racer piece of a body brings $6K.
There are things that are not available that I had to make myself. It would be quite easy to make Café racer molds and sell entire bolt on, bike specific kits on ebay. I can see motorcycling becoming more mainstream as real transportation in dwindling economies. I can also see a trend where bikers change 'outfits' on their bikes like an old Barbie.
Maybe I'm full of it, just some thoughts.
