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Alan Braggins
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In article <[email protected]>, 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
Skoda started off as a bike maker too.
I think Mercedes did one/some for a while, and Audi still do. At least
my local Audi dealer has a bike with "Quattro" stickers on the roof of
one of their display models. It's only rear wheel drive though, not like
the Quattro cars. http://www.audiworld.com/news/03/bike/content.shtml
There are Jeep branded bikes too, at least one of which does have an
all wheel drive system:
http://www.mountain-bikes-now.com/jeep_mountain_bike_rubcAWD.htm
>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
Skoda started off as a bike maker too.
I think Mercedes did one/some for a while, and Audi still do. At least
my local Audi dealer has a bike with "Quattro" stickers on the roof of
one of their display models. It's only rear wheel drive though, not like
the Quattro cars. http://www.audiworld.com/news/03/bike/content.shtml
There are Jeep branded bikes too, at least one of which does have an
all wheel drive system:
http://www.mountain-bikes-now.com/jeep_mountain_bike_rubcAWD.htm