Dawes/Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op equivalents

[D.M. Procida]

If the Dawes Horizon <http://www.dawescycles.com/dawes/horizon.htm > is
the EBC Revolution Country
<http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=20811> then
what is the Dawes equivalent of the EBC Revolution Cosmos
<http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=19268>?

Daniele

 

[Graham Dean]

"D.M. Procida" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:1h0ekh2.b2mdau19r1ap3N%[email protected]...
> If the Dawes Horizon <http://www.dawescycles.com/dawes/horizon.htm > is
> the EBC Revolution Country
> <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=20811> then
> what is the Dawes equivalent of the EBC Revolution Cosmos
> <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=19268>?
>
> Daniele

Haven't got a clue 'cause it seems edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk won't allow me to
look
unless it uses my hard disk to store its information...

G.

 

[Peter Clinch]

D.M. Procida wrote:

> what is the Dawes equivalent of the EBC Revolution Cosmos
> <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=19268>?

I don't think there is a direct equivalent.

And EBC's bloody silly cookie/deep links problem is /still/ a problem.
<sigh>

Pete.
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

 

[vernon]

> And EBC's bloody silly cookie/deep links problem is /still/ a problem.
> <sigh>
>Has anyone emailed them to inform them of the problem and, better still,
offered a well explained
solution to the problem?

I'm not a techie and have not spent much time on the site so can offer
little in the way of advice to them.

Vernon

 

[Peter Clinch]

vernon wrote:
> Has anyone emailed them to inform them of the problem and, better still,
> offered a well explained solution to the problem?

Several people. I just sent another pointing out it's borked, hoping
that at some point critical mass will be reached.

My web skills don't go deep enough to isolate the problem, but there's
always the old "hiring someone with a Clue" possibility...

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message
<1h0ekh2.b2mdau19r1ap3N%[email protected]>,
D.M. Procida ('[email protected]') wrote:

> If the Dawes Horizon <http://www.dawescycles.com/dawes/horizon.htm > is
> the EBC Revolution Country
> <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=20811> then
> what is the Dawes equivalent of the EBC Revolution Cosmos
> <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=19268>?

There probably isn't one. Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op may have rebadged some
Dawes bikes at one time (and may even still do so), but most of their
bikes are unique to them. You won't get anything resembling a Revolution
Courier Race from Dawes.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, vernon
('[email protected]') wrote:

>
>
>> And EBC's bloody silly cookie/deep links problem is /still/ a problem.
>> <sigh>
>>Has anyone emailed them to inform them of the problem and, better
>>still,
> offered a well explained
> solution to the problem?
>
> I'm not a techie and have not spent much time on the site so can offer
> little in the way of advice to them.

Yes, I have, several times. The last time I got back a reasonably
sensible answer saying 'we're working on it'. Hopefully they are.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those
who are now possible remain possible -- Michael Bakunin

 

[D.M. Procida]

Simon Brooke <[email protected]> wrote:

> > If the Dawes Horizon <http://www.dawescycles.com/dawes/horizon.htm > is
> > the EBC Revolution Country
> > <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=20811> then
> > what is the Dawes equivalent of the EBC Revolution Cosmos
> > <http://www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk/catalogue/detail.cfm?ID=19268>?
>
> There probably isn't one. Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op may have rebadged some
> Dawes bikes at one time (and may even still do so), but most of their
> bikes are unique to them. You won't get anything resembling a Revolution
> Courier Race from Dawes.

The Revolution Country is pretty clearly a rebadged Dawes Horizon, and
the Revolution Cosmos (not Courier Race) is (well, looks) only very
slightly different.

I wondered if it might be a Dawes Kara-Kum with dropped handlebars - the
ones on the Kara-Kum look a bit of a mess, but otherwise I could see
myself managing to squeeze out the extra £££ for that over the Horizon.

Daniele
--
Apple Juice
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road
Cardiff CF5 1QE

 

[citizen142]

Daniele my fellow Cardiff dweller.

There are two bike shops I would recommend in or near Cardiff. (I have
absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with them, other than now and then
being a customer).

Tony in Station Road, Llandaff North (by the Health Centre) is a
stockist of Dawes cycles and he is a nice, helpful bloke as well, he
also sells used bikes, some quite good, some, frankly, ****.

The other is Tongwynlais Cycles in Tongwynlais. The Taff trail will
take you there safely. He is an active club cyclist himself and knows
a thing or too about bikes - he again is also a nice bloke.

One tip - haggle! Don't pay the list price!

The trouble with buying anything Mail Order from computers to bikes is
what the hell is it gonna cost you to send it back if troubles arrives
and it always does.

 

[D.M. Procida]

citizen142 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Daniele my fellow Cardiff dweller.
>
> There are two bike shops I would recommend in or near Cardiff. (I have
> absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with them, other than now and then
> being a customer).
>
> Tony in Station Road, Llandaff North (by the Health Centre) is a
> stockist of Dawes cycles and he is a nice, helpful bloke as well, he
> also sells used bikes, some quite good, some, frankly, ****.
>
> The other is Tongwynlais Cycles in Tongwynlais. The Taff trail will
> take you there safely. He is an active club cyclist himself and knows
> a thing or too about bikes - he again is also a nice bloke.

I'll keep an eye out for them, but local to me means Canton, so it's the
Bike Shed (Ridgeback) or Tom Davies Cycles (Dawes) - both nice shops
with helpful and friendly people in them - and it's looking like the
latter, because there just don't seem to be any suitable bikes within my
price range by Ridgeback.

Daniele
--
Apple Juice
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road
Cardiff CF5 1QE

 

[Keith Willoughby]

"citizen142" <[email protected]> writes:

> The other is Tongwynlais Cycles in Tongwynlais. The Taff trail will
> take you there safely. He is an active club cyclist himself and knows
> a thing or too about bikes - he again is also a nice bloke.

I've been told here that there are two guys who work there, even though
I've only ever seen one. I think it must be true, though, because the
guy who's served me is a grumpy, unhelpful git. I took my custom to the
Bike Doctor in Porth when I bought some axles, even though it's further
away, because they didn't make me feel 2 feet tall for daring to intrude
into their time by simply asking a question.

--
Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/
"I see him with a small but perfectly formed Watteau"