What happend to Vision?

Guess I've been out of the loop for a while. Been pretty
busy for quit some time and found out my project is
killed, I think.

I finally got some extra cash and was going to try and put
Vision's IPS on my Ryan Duplex. I headed off to my LBS to
order up the IPS and he tells me that everything was sold
off about 6 to 8 weeks ago. What happened? I thought they
were one of the bigger companies that would prevail.

Does anyone know if someone else bought the patient for
the IPS and is going to make it available again? Or.....
does somebody have one setting on the shelf that I could
get my hands on?

Any help or info on what's going on would be nice.

Thanks, Bill 96 Vanguard, 99 Duplex

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"Bill McAninch" <WRmcaninch@cecomet.net> wrote in message news:<40b00959_5@corp.newsgroups.com>...
> Guess I've been out of the loop for a while. Been pretty
> busy for quit some time and found out my project is
> killed, I think.
>
> I finally got some extra cash and was going to try and put
> Vision's IPS on my Ryan Duplex. I headed off to my LBS to
> order up the IPS and he tells me that everything was sold
> off about 6 to 8 weeks ago. What happened? I thought they
> were one of the bigger companies that would prevail.
>

Size is no asset- look at BikeE.

Vision went belly-up at the beginning of the year after
money woes overwhelmed them. 2003 was not good- they laid
off most of their people and didn't appear at Interbike.
Their assets were auctioned off in March.

> Does anyone know if someone else bought the patient for
> the IPS and is going to make it available again? Or.....
> does somebody have one setting on the shelf that I could
> get my hands on?
>

Hostel Shoppe used to list the IPS cranks in their catalog.
Don't get your hopes up- I think tandem part production was
one of the reasons they one of the reasons they weren't able
to produce bikes.

Jeff

The IPS was licenced to J&B Importers, and according to
Hostel Shoppe it will be available any month now...

-Eben Haber

Jeff Wills wrote:
> "Bill McAninch" <WRmcaninch@cecomet.net> wrote in message
> news:<40b00959_5@corp.newsgroups.com>...
>
>>Guess I've been out of the loop for a while. Been pretty
>>busy for quit some time and found out my project is
>>killed, I think.
>>
>>I finally got some extra cash and was going to try and put
>>Vision's IPS on my Ryan Duplex. I headed off to my LBS to
>>order up the IPS and he tells me that everything was sold
>>off about 6 to 8 weeks ago. What happened? I thought they
>>were one of the bigger companies that would prevail.
>>
>
>
> Size is no asset- look at BikeE.
>
> Vision went belly-up at the beginning of the year after
> money woes overwhelmed them. 2003 was not good- they laid
> off most of their people and didn't appear at Interbike.
> Their assets were auctioned off in March.
>
>
>>Does anyone know if someone else bought the patient for
>>the IPS and is going to make it available again? Or.....
>>does somebody have one setting on the shelf that I could
>>get my hands on?
>>
>
>
> Hostel Shoppe used to list the IPS cranks in their
> catalog. Don't get your hopes up- I think tandem part
> production was one of the reasons they one of the reasons
> they weren't able to produce bikes.
>
> Jeff

Do you know if J&B has a web site or email so I could
contact them? Does anyone know anything about J&B Importers?

Of course now my better half has found something else to
spend the money on so I might be waiting again.

Bill 96 Vanguard, 99 Duplex

"Eben Haber" <eben@haber.net> wrote in message
news:40f02a18$1@news.meer.net...
> The IPS was licenced to J&B Importers, and according to
> Hostel Shoppe it
will
> be available any month now...
>
> -Eben Haber
>
>
> Jeff Wills wrote:
> > "Bill McAninch" <WRmcaninch@cecomet.net> wrote in
> > message
news:<40b00959_5@corp.newsgroups.com>...
> >
> >>Guess I've been out of the loop for a while. Been pretty
> >>busy for quit
some
> >>time and found out my project is killed, I think.
> >>
> >>I finally got some extra cash and was going to try and
> >>put Vision's IPS
on
> >>my Ryan Duplex. I headed off to my LBS to order up the
> >>IPS and he tells
me
> >>that everything was sold off about 6 to 8 weeks ago.
> >>What happened? I thought they were one of the bigger
> >>companies that would prevail.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Size is no asset- look at BikeE.
> >
> > Vision went belly-up at the beginning of the year after
> > money woes overwhelmed them. 2003 was not good- they
> > laid off most of their people and didn't appear at
> > Interbike. Their assets were auctioned off in March.
> >
> >
> >>Does anyone know if someone else bought the patient for
> >>the IPS and is
going
> >>to make it available again? Or..... does somebody have
> >>one setting on
the
> >>shelf that I could get my hands on?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hostel Shoppe used to list the IPS cranks in their
> > catalog. Don't get your hopes up- I think tandem part
> > production was one of the reasons they one of the
> > reasons they weren't able to produce bikes.
> >
> > Jeff
>

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Bill McAninch wrote:

> Do you know if J&B has a web site or email so I could
> contact them?...

<http://www.jbimporters.com/>.

From the website, "If you are a consumer with a parts
question, please contact your local bike shop. J&B
Importers, Inc. is a wholesale distribution center and does
not have the staff to offer any techincal (sic)
assistance."

--
Tom Sherman – Quad City Area

Tom Sherman <tsherman@qconline.com> wrote in message news:<2lctefFb6i7aU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Bill McAninch wrote:
>
> > Do you know if J&B has a web site or email so I could
> > contact them?...
>
> <http://www.jbimporters.com/>.
>
> From the website, "If you are a consumer with a parts
> question, please contact your local bike shop. J&B
> Importers, Inc. is a wholesale distribution center and
> does not have the staff to offer any techincal (sic)
> assistance."

Maybe they would trade some "techincal" assistance for some
web-site editing??