Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:31 pm
Pinarello v. Ferrari?
Or carmakers realising a CO2 price is on its way and they need to start looking at other markets?
Edit: basically the article is a UK Guardian article reprinted in the Fairfax stable and just a review of T250 Aintree.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby drubie » Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:55 pm
You can buy a Ferrari MTB at cell right now.
It's one of the truisms of cycling though - if a car maker puts out a line of bicycles, they will suck. Yes, that includes Peugeot
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby il padrone » Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:58 pm
Modern re-creation
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:30 pm
For the life of me, I can't understand Pug fans and "handling around corners" *shakes head*drubie wrote: It's one of the truisms of cycling though - if a car maker puts out a line of bicycles, they will suck. Yes, that includes Peugeot
Anyway, according to this book, all carmakers owe their provenance to bicycles. No chicken or egg problem at all.
http://www.economist.com/node/16690861? ... N=44079849
"Cycling’s innovations, including spokes, pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, steel tubing and differential gears, were soon borrowed by the motor industry. Many automobile pioneers were former bike mechanics, Henry Ford and William Hillman among them, and bicycle companies that converted to car manufacturing include Bianchi, Peugeot, Opel, Morris, Rover and Humber. The bicycle, Mr Penn writes, was also the forerunner of long- distance travel. In 1892 two brothers opened a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio and soon turned their minds to how a flying machine might work. In 1903 the “Wright Flyerâ€, with bicycle-derived sprockets and chains driving its propellers, became the world’s first powered aircraft."
All hail the cyclemakers and their users!
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby jimsheedy » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:13 pm
Uncle Grumpy wrote:http://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/it ... toreID=105
Thank you, that is all.
Grumps
Can you move that over to the bogan thread?
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:17 pm
"Limited Edition came out with the first 100, 1996 Mallo utes."Uncle Grumpy wrote:http://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/it ... toreID=105
Thank you, that is all.
Grumps
The ute is definitely sexier than the bike. And they're dreaming at that price. BMW bike at $1625
http://www.bmw.com.au/com/en/bmwrange/_ ... ection.pdf
Ooh, accessories
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Uncle Just » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:18 am
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby elantra » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:57 am
They are already in the showrooms here (brisbane) and they are very nice bikes, in the retro groove.
They use Reynolds 520 or 531 frames.
Obviously this is more a marketing exercise than a serious push into the bike market, but I for one would not say no to one of these little beauties in my garage.
http://www.cooperbikes.com/T200-singles ... gbike.html
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby leighthebee » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:04 pm
so I'm now thinking of making my own Brabham BT19 special......Looking for an old Repco frame, but most I see are too small...
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby jimsheedy » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:10 pm
A Wallpaper design award? What for? I should've entered.elantra wrote:The bikes being pedaled by Mini Cooper Motors are a much more serious effort than most other motoring forays into the bike market.
They are already in the showrooms here (brisbane) and they are very nice bikes, in the retro groove.
They use Reynolds 520 or 531 frames.
Obviously this is more a marketing exercise than a serious push into the bike market, but I for one would not say no to one of these little beauties in my garage.
http://www.cooperbikes.com/T200-singles ... gbike.html
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby JV911 » Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:03 pm
i had the porsche-branded roadie - funny sloping top-tube, purple frame with yellow seat, tyres and bar tapeUncle Just wrote:Anyone remember the Porsche MTB of some years back?
before you ask, no, i didnt pay for it
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby gorilla monsoon » Thu Oct 14, 2010 2:16 pm
Hyundai started-off making bicycles and still does. It used to be that Korean Hyundai dealers had a higher profit margin in their bikes than they did with their cars.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:13 pm
http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1032 ... d-pushbike
Hmmm...needs to be be reviewed.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby elStado » Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:21 pm
You stole it?JV911 wrote:i had the porsche-branded roadie - funny sloping top-tube, purple frame with yellow seat, tyres and bar tape
before you ask, no, i didnt pay for it
I don't know about expensive car markers being a good thing, since they are really after the high flyers with more money than sense.
However, I do welcome the shift that car manufacturers could make from vehicles to/back to bikes. A bicycle version of the Toyota Camry would be good; good value, well built, no frills, inexpensive to own and maintain and also efficient. Normalising cycling is the best thing for everyone.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby elStado » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:05 pm
Hhaha true, good point. I used to have a '08 Giant Rincon with semi-slicks on it, great bike actually, until it was stolen.JV911 wrote:yes they're called "Giant"elStado wrote:A bicycle version of the Toyota Camry would be good; good value, well built, no frills, boring
But having Toyota throw it's manufacturing capabilities and advertising budget behind a range of bicycles and ebikes would be a sight for sore eyes.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby weemac » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:19 pm
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby JV911 » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:24 pm
weemac wrote:I'm glad that Fiat don't make a bike.... It would have some great performance components on it but the frame would disappear in a cloud of iron oxide overnight.... Oh!, and it would leak oil from places where it is not possible to leak regardless of how many times you fix it...
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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Re: Expensive carmakers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:26 pm
the Gucci bike
http://www.likecool.com/Gucci_Bike--News--Gear.html
the Chanel bike
http://www.purseblog.com/chanel-bags/th ... cycle.html
and the Hermes bike
http://www.purseblog.com/hermes/the-hermes-bicycle.html
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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