Re: Skoda Bikes

[Danny Colyer]

Sam Salt wrote:
> I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car dealership
> when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good advice and aftersales.

Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off
the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are
Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think
Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars

The Range/Land Rover bike was a rebadged Moulton, so not actually a bad
machine. ISTR the Porsche bike was a heap of all-style-and-no-substance
boinginess. I can't remember anything about the Mazda bikes, even
though I was temping in the marketing department of Mazda UK when they
first came out.


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[bugbear]

Danny Colyer wrote:
> Sam Salt wrote:
>
>> I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car
>> dealership
>> when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good advice and
>> aftersales.
>
>
> Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off
> the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are
> Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think
> Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars

Cadillac...

http://bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=5543
http://www.cadillacbicycles.com/


BugBear

 

[bugbear]

Jeremy Collins wrote:
>
> Would it be terribly bad form to add that I also overtook the expensive
> BMW bike and left him far behind, riding only a £90 Halfords "MTB"? [1]
>

"It's not about the bike"

BugBear

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Not
Responding ('[email protected]') wrote:

> John Burns wrote:
>> One of the Hummer bikes was on ebay last month, quite something!
>> Aparently designed for the Marines, it's a folder and can be stored
>> in the Hummer.
>
> I'd always assumed that possibly only benefit of owning a hummer would
> be that you could fit in a full size /non-folding/ bike.

Unlikely. A Hummer is /strictly/ a four seater - there is remarkably
little usable room in there.

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