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Joeg
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OK, I just can't sit on this any longer. I'm feeling slightly vulnerable, since Calfee still have a
4k deposit of mine, plus they haven't delivered the bike but....
Just spreading the word, exactly as it was told to me:
Friday (I think) morning I got a call from Freddy M, telling me that he and Craig had had a
difference of opinion regarding money, as in, Craig decided that the verbal agreement they had come
to earlier as far as freds commission went was too much money for Freddy. It would appear that Fred
was working with no benefits for relatively low wages and was going to switch to commission with the
bikes rolling out the door. At the 11th hour, Craig decided the verbal agreement was null and void.
I don't know what else happened, but the net is that freddy is out the door, Calfee retains all the
molds and production stuff necessary to produce Stiletto's, and has changed their web page to erase
any mention of Freddy's contribution to the design.
I spoke with Chris there, relatively new manager, and asked for my 4K back. He demurred, saying the
bike was done especially (custom?) for me, and so....I pretty much caved after arguing for awhile
about whose design the bike was, Freddy's or Calfee's or some amalgam of both.
I cannot, of course, definitively say whose design it was, but I know what was in my mind when I
forked over 4K - I thought I was getting Freddy M's work and the benefit of his association with
Easy Racers.
Be that as it may, I'm going to (assuming they can deliver it to me without Freddy) take
posession of the bike and try to sort out the dangling remaining issue myself vis-a-vis body sock
and so forth.
I've been waiting until I got the bike to say anything, but I just can't anymore. At the risk of
damaging my chances of getting warranty work or any service from Calfee, I have to say this is the
very last product I will ever purchase from them. This is the third Calfee frame I've purchased.
Chris made a cryptic remark to the effect of, 'Freddy better watch what he says about this to
people'. I don't know exactly how to interpret it. In any case, Freddy Markham is not writing
this. I am.
Oh, one more thing. Chris pretty much confirmed what Freddy said about the difference of opinion vis-a-
vis compensation.
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4k deposit of mine, plus they haven't delivered the bike but....
Just spreading the word, exactly as it was told to me:
Friday (I think) morning I got a call from Freddy M, telling me that he and Craig had had a
difference of opinion regarding money, as in, Craig decided that the verbal agreement they had come
to earlier as far as freds commission went was too much money for Freddy. It would appear that Fred
was working with no benefits for relatively low wages and was going to switch to commission with the
bikes rolling out the door. At the 11th hour, Craig decided the verbal agreement was null and void.
I don't know what else happened, but the net is that freddy is out the door, Calfee retains all the
molds and production stuff necessary to produce Stiletto's, and has changed their web page to erase
any mention of Freddy's contribution to the design.
I spoke with Chris there, relatively new manager, and asked for my 4K back. He demurred, saying the
bike was done especially (custom?) for me, and so....I pretty much caved after arguing for awhile
about whose design the bike was, Freddy's or Calfee's or some amalgam of both.
I cannot, of course, definitively say whose design it was, but I know what was in my mind when I
forked over 4K - I thought I was getting Freddy M's work and the benefit of his association with
Easy Racers.
Be that as it may, I'm going to (assuming they can deliver it to me without Freddy) take
posession of the bike and try to sort out the dangling remaining issue myself vis-a-vis body sock
and so forth.
I've been waiting until I got the bike to say anything, but I just can't anymore. At the risk of
damaging my chances of getting warranty work or any service from Calfee, I have to say this is the
very last product I will ever purchase from them. This is the third Calfee frame I've purchased.
Chris made a cryptic remark to the effect of, 'Freddy better watch what he says about this to
people'. I don't know exactly how to interpret it. In any case, Freddy Markham is not writing
this. I am.
Oh, one more thing. Chris pretty much confirmed what Freddy said about the difference of opinion vis-a-
vis compensation.
Next Topic
