I think Altaracer929 meant there were 300 units on dealer floors prior to 10/17/18, not 300 dealers. Anyway, when you mean on line 5 "Everyone else LOSES" can you expand on that?
One does NOT need inside information on a specific company to know that when places close, nobody wins. Most everyone that had any sort of involvement in the business of Alta Motors aka Faster Faster, in any way shape or form, loses. and it is mostly money that is lost.
At least the Alta Owners on this forum were delivered a product. An excellent, top of the line product. One that most, would not trade, sell or give away, no matter what. A bike was finally made that had the range, the power, the silence, and the reliability to without a doubt, make the purchase of the Redshift electric-cycle, one of, if not THE, best purchases they had ever made. Just one of the things (out of the now way, too, many)-they will lose is the expert ability to have their bikes diagnosed and repaired at a dealership. That is just one way they all lose.
The investors, whomever they are, lose. They lose the most. The employees who built the bikes-like all the automaker employees all throughout history, who are laid off when tough times come, like the GM employees earlier this week, who had the choice to be bought-out by their employer, GM, or just laid-off with no consolation prize
Like the Redshift, not many were buying Chevy Volts-no matter how well they were/are vs a Prius, or how much cheaper they were with all the taxpayer subsidies, or passenger cars anymore. In a massive, massive way, that no one really gives too much thought to, but the only winners are the owners of the bikes who have been riding, and will keep on riding, until . . . they were the only winners as they got what they paid for, save for the support down the road that most take very much for granted because it has always been there(like a Toyota or Honda dealership).
I'm still here because I still want an EXR or, the next version of the EXR beause I believe that in this life, another electric dual sport will be made that at least equals or exceeds the performance of a 2019 EXR.
Everyone, loses, money.
