me and a buddy were talking about colors last year when they decided to make all the bikes red and thought they were working toward the branding of the bike to make it more recognizable. ktm has orange, honda red, kawi green, and gasgas whatever strikes the factory that year! i like the anticipation of seeing what there coming out with every year but i think its hard to get people to notice the brand image if the colors change so drastically every year. i had a guy ask my riding buddy if my 2010 nambotin was a chinese knock off
obviously an extremely uneducated guy(i laughed my ass off) but my point being all the other lines are quite recognizable at a glance and this helps marketablity and sales (one would think)