SHIFT Gives Up On Karting
03 Feb '06 - 15:39 by benrI thought I'd see if SHIFT had any new 2006 karting gear and, much to my supprise, couldn't find any links relating to Karting period! Some of the karting images are still around, but even in the webstore, if you click on a karting link it takes you swiftly to an MX page. A quick call to SHIFT customer service (and a callback) gave me confirmation... SHIFT is out of the karting business. A real bummer.
SHIFT, if you don't know, is a division of Fox Racing which specizes in Motorcross, Street, and untill recently, Karting. Fox, and thus SHIFT, is a master when it comes to branding, selling far more Fox logo shirts and clothes than it does actual safety gear. The SHIFT karting line was good stuff, not the top of the line in terms of quality (my driving boots have a big ass hole in the side which appeared only 5 months after having bought them), but was priced reasonably and had a very large brand presence in the sport. I suppose that leaves an opening for Alpine Stars to step into. I actually bought a SHIFT driving suit last year but returned it because the sleeves weren't long enough, even on the largest suit they made. I thought about instead buying an Alpine Stars K-MX 5 suit (its a damned nice looking suit) but instead decided to save the cash and just keep putting up with the suits provided by the track. In about a year I'll finally have to replace my boots and gloves, and I'll probly go Alpine Stars for both, although I have loved my Sparco gloves. We'll see. I don't get to the track nearly as much as I'd like to these days.
RIP SHIFT Karting. Wish I'd picked up a couple shirts before you went down in flames.
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