This was what I was waiting for for a long time. If these could have come out a couple years ago, I'd still have my Bleriot!
On Oct 15, 10:09 am, stevep33 <steve...@gmail.com> wrote: > On a related note, Rawland Cycles is working with Kirk Pacenti to > produce a Mini-Moto. This will be a 650b 43c knobbie. It's a > particularly exciting development considering that many frames won't > fit the wider 2.0 650b Quasi-Moto. They are need preorders for 300 > tires via the Rawland site. I've ordered a set. Someone please order > the other 298 tires! > > http://rawlandcycles.blogspot.com/2010/10/pacenti-mini-moto.html > > On Oct 14, 11:41 pm, benzzoy <benz...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 7:22 pm, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The logistics of coordinating such an event is fairly substantial and > > may outweigh the savings such an event provides. With tires, the > > magic number may be around 100. I'm basing this on a remark from Jan > > Heine when Kirk Pacenti was introducing the Pari-Moto. Jan postulated > > that Kirk would be close to break-even (for mold cost) at 200 tires so > > 100 seems like a good number* if the tire manufacturer amortizes the > > startup costs over thousands of tires. > > Cheers, > > B > > > * This is, of course, a WAG. -- 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.
