On Aug 6, 7:37 pm, ted <ted.ke...@comcast.net> wrote: > Jan writes: "It would be easy for Rivendell to sell TIG-welded frames" > > I think Grant has said that Riv would not be > successful selling such bikes because other larger well established > firms with cost advantages are already covering that.
When you look at Surly's success with taking many Rivendell designs and ideas and replicating them in TIG, it seems that there is a very ready market for those bikes. Knowing the economics of the bike business, I suspect that the Surly brand is more profitable than Grant's bike lines. But I also suspect that Grant doesn't care - he makes the bikes he makes not because they are the most profitable, but because they are the bikes he loves. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly http://www.bikequarterly.com/ -- 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-bunch@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.
