On The Pegs September 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 9 | Page 32

On The Pegs
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GAS GAS UPDATE
P hotos B y S teve B erkner
There have been a lot of rumors circulating about the status of GasGas, and
specifically, about the US distributor, GasGas North America. Rumors that the
company is up for sale or is in receivership or bankruptcy. During a recent National
Enduro in Pennsylvania, GasGas North America Operations Manager Mark Berg
spoke about the issue in an effort to clean clear things up.
“We’re hearing all sorts of questions and stories, like our South Dakota offices
are closed and all the parts have been shipped back, but that’s not the case at all,”
said Berg. “We work with the factory on a weekly basis moving forward in 2020
with bike sales, and with our programs and support. My staff is still there at the of-
fices; it’s normal business for us still. We’re constantly getting parts in and back out
to our dealers and working on programs for 2020.
“In our warehouse, we have in stock well over $500,000 of parts for just trials
and enduro, plus aftermarket parts so we have a lot of parts going all the way back
to 1996. With the fire that they had last year at the factory, they did have some
struggles in transitions to a new warehouse and replenishing those stocks. And