shoulda checked my spelling/word use... I meant Rivendell cachet not cache'
~Mike~ On Mar 2, 4:47 pm, Michael_S <mikeybi...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > I think you make a good point and are most likely correct as far as > funding new bike projects. > > I also don't know many people out there, esp in the smaller sizes, who > would shell out $2000 for a bike frame. It's easy to go find even > customs for a lower price. Of course they would not have the same > level of details in geometry, finish and cache' as the Rivendells but > most people will choose to compromise some of those charateristics to > save some money. I'm sure that's why GP is changing to Taiwan for a > lot of his new frames, to lower the price point and also to reduce the > size range of frames to cover the middle of the more commonly bought > sizes. 95% of the people I know who ride are on frame sizes between > 54-64 so my small sample would predict a surplus of small frames. And > I think EBAY may be good way to clear out these frames. > > That said, I would certainly pay half or more up front to obtain one > of the 1st SimpleOne's if that option were available. > > ~Mike~ > > On Mar 2, 2:53 pm, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks Seth for the effort. The link didn't work for me, but I > > believe I can find out the necessary information to educate myself and > > my friends about the Saluki. The point I was trying to make is that > > there are a bunch of us here that would like to see the SimpleOne, the > > Hunqa, and the Amos, all available ASAP. There are a total of 12 > > frames with a retail value of $22,250 on the Homer/Saluki old stock > > page. If a miracle happened and somebody dropped a check for $22,250 > > and made those frames disappear, Riv would not replace them. They > > would instead spend more cash on getting different new inventory: the > > new bikes we all want to see brought in. Since that's what I want, it > > makes me wish that Riv would actively promote those bikes in some way > > up front on their site, not rely on the kindness of you to hand 4-year- > > old archive links to reasonably well-informed people like me. I did > > my part by bringing a friend in to pay retail for the brown 63cm > > Hilsen. The bare Hilsen complete bike is still there. I'm keeping my > > eyes open in the hope of bringing somebody else in to buy that. I > > have a lady friend who needs to buy a bike for the Aids ride. > > Hopefully I can steer her to a Saluki. The quicker that old stock > > gets cleared out, and the higher the price that stock goes for, the > > quicker we'll see new stuff come in. > > > On Mar 2, 2:23 pm, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:19 PM, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The way to prime the pump is with cash. One paid in full SimpleOne > > > > deposit is probably not enough, but it certainly would help. I bought > > > > an in-stock Bomba in part to help out. I'm trying to figure out which > > > > of my friends I can influence into buying a tiny Saluki since they > > > > have like ten of those and that $15000 of cash flow clogged in that > > > > inventory probably could finance a run of SimpleOnes. Those things > > > > haven't moved at all and they don't even have descriptions of what the > > > > Saluki even is, anymore. > > > > Here you go: > > > >http://web.archive.org/web/20060105103209/www.rivbike.com/html/bikes_... > > > > -sv- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
