"top industry bicycle designer, Mark Sanders, has claimed the industry is missing out on the lower-end market potential."
http://www.bikebiz.com/news/31949/Top-cycle-designer-says-industry-too-focused-on-high-end
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"Top cycle designer says 'industry too focused on high-end'"
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Like this one?
Umm, what is it??
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Now imagine that a global consumer product brand, such as Samsung, Ford, Philips or even Apple, introduced a new ‘product for personal transport’
We'd have to replace our bikes every two years and they wouldn't be worth repairing :-)
Whilst this might be good for bike retailers ,,,,
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Not sure what he would think of this Go-Cycle - reviewed in recent Velo Vision
Not sure what I think of it... saddle is at odd angle. Doesn't have rack.
You can get one in black without an electric motor.
(no LB commercial interest - from Edinburgh Bike Coop)In Netherlands I was taken with this Batavus. It has built in LED light on headstem with hub lighting. Low frame version is also available of course.
My daughter thinks 'retro style' bikes with baskets are 'cool'.
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Nay, nay and thrice nay.
I was out in the garage this evening where there is a 1999 iBook. As I greased hub bearings it was playing some Duran Duran wirelessly streamed from the iMac inside the house. The battery is shot but so long as it's plugged in it works just fine.
Trying out Green Oil Ecogrease on the hub (Sturmey Archer 3 speed BWR).
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Imagine the M*crosoft bike. You would have to keep adding several new parts to it every day (during which time you can't ride it) and it would quickly become so heavy it would fall over when you tried to take it out of the shed and you would have to replace it.
Though in all seriousness, decent quality low-end bikes are a good thing. I don't think Bike Shaped Objects are a good thing.
The bike in the picture reminds me of the fortified bicycle I have seen a guy riding about a few times. Up near Kings Buildings usually. Not sure what the point is. It probably keeps the wind and rain off but must be hard to ride.
Posted 14 years ago # -
1999 iBook.
Macs were better then! Will be running system 9?
Posted 14 years ago # -
the fortified bicycle
That one... reminds me of a Crusader. Not like my very normal 'non-standard' bikes ;-)
Is more creative though. I just buy bikes.
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Duran Duran I'm not keen. You can rent that yacht (her name is Rio) out of Helensburgh (where the head teacher got struck off for renting his playground to the ice cream van man). But you do not get the woman covered in paint.
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OS 9? 7.6 was where it was at. Until Leopard, I never knew a Mac that crashed so infrequently. There's a cool website somewhere that has a simulation of System 1. Retrotastic!
What about the Paper Bicycle? That seems to be a nice no-frills, all-purpose city bike, once they start making more of them.
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Retrotastic!
Like it. Yes... system 10 needs a cinema screen to sort through the windows.
Back in 95 I worked on a MacIIcx on a 13" monitor in Quark 3 with picture previews turned off - and it was faster!
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Pretty, but what happens when it rains?
(the paper bike I mean)
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Nice - goood that rack option available. Reminds me of a dream I had - or it might have been real. In the Muji Shop in Glasgow in 1990 - they had a silver/grey bike without a chain not just enclosed chain) - no chain - a kind of connected piston type thing like on the brakes on the 1950s trike I have in the garage - two connected rods. It was £550 in 1990.
Posted 14 years ago # -
There are shaft drive bikes...
Arellcat will have link...
Question....
Has anyone else seen a GoCyle - the white electric bike shown above. I mean 'seen in use'.
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Thanks LaidBack ShaftDrive was what it was
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I note link to Zero bikes has gone.
Which makes me think that the mass market wasn't persuaded.
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Those Zero ShaftDrive bikes might work. Only ever seen the GoCycle in the shop/in it's white box - none on the road. Colleague at work has a lovely electric bike with daisies on it, she is using it lots.
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Hmmm... it's got a version of X on it. I don't remember if iTunes could stream in the pre X versions. I've had SoundJam before that which became iTunes.
Wiki says sharing came in with iTunes 4 in 2003. I thought it was earlier than that.
I'm pretty sure I've got OS 1 somewhere but I usually don't go earlier than 6.
The boat is called Drum, belongs to Arnold Shark the car dealer. I've seen it around there from a friend's boat.
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Someone goes out through Haymarket at about 1650ish daily with a go cycle, he wears a black full face motocross type helmet.
Dunno which train he's coming from though.Posted 14 years ago #
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