Interesting for sure, Triumph management sometimes doesn't think "out of the box" for sure, must be all that tea they drink. Hell, it's business anyway, if you can move a unit, then move it....they are not museum pieces, and who the hell from the US is gonna go to Thailand, buy one and pay to have it shipped back?
I was in Japan back in the late 50's for a bit and developed a "taste" for those fine oriental ladies and spent some time in Hawaii while the Army surgeons put me back together after Nam and there are some fine hula dancers there as well. Just something about those dusky skinned, petite, dark haired Asian women that rings my bells....obviously rings yours as well...lol...