Weird seeing my post from last year (below).
Note: it might get a tad confusing using the Name "Hurricane" for one of your China Mascot bents.
Not sure about how legal it is either. Re: Challenge Recumbents makes a "Hurricane" model as
well. I looked at the www.actionbent.com website and was impressed with an OSS @ only
$645.00....this should sell well. Bent riders can be a tough group to please, but $645.00 will
soften up even the most critical in our group. Didn't China Mascot release a Titanium Frame a
few months ago?
Oh and I almost forgot "Best of Luck" in your bent venture.
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"Randy Schulman" <
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> Joshua Goldberg wrote:
> > Nice to see China Mascot is alive and well. They are quite affordable
in
> > the under 10 unit class and a few Big Name Bent companies have brought them into the USA (to
> > sell as their own), but the deal killer was the transportation costs are too high. One Texas
> > based company paid more
on
> > shipping than for 2 bents and I guess that made them think twice about importing anymore. To
> > get these bents to go mainstream you'd need to
buy
> > in lots of 50 plus to balance out the shipping costs. The 3 PB Models they had before were NOT
> > lightweight bents either...adding to the shipping cost. Get the bent down in weight and buy in
> > lots of 20-50
and
> > you'd have a good bent to slap your company name on....who'd know?
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> > "Ken Kobayashi" <
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> > >
> > > I just noticed that China Mascot Products, a Taiwanese 'bent manufacturer, announced some
> > > new models:
> > >
> > >
http://www.recumbent.com.tw/bents/model.htmhttp://www.recumbent.-
> > > com.tw/bents/model.htm
> > >
> > > The lowracer and the Hase Pino clone are new. The other models are already available in
> > > Japan. The Pockey7 is going for 60,000 yen
($500)
> > > and the TSUNAMI is sold as a frame kit for 50,000 ($420).
> > >
> > > I'm sorry I don't know about the availability in the US. Does anyone know?
> > >
> > > Ken Kobayashi
[email protected] http://solarwww.mtk.nao-
> > > .ac.jp/kobayashi/personal/
http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayashi/- personal/
>
> China Mascot fans,
>
> I've just started a company, "ActionBent Recumbents", importing China Mascot bikes to the US;
> they're here now; See www.ActionBent.com.[/url] I brought in an initial shipment of 50 bikes. I'm
> in Redmond Washington. China Mascot only OEM's; you've GOT to "slap your own name" on'em! My URL
> is ]www.ActionBent.com. I've currently got three models; One is their 'Tsunami', renamed the
> "Tidal Wave' (couldn't use the same name, so I just translated it.)
>
> The other two are versions of what I call "The Hurricane" (liked the sea-weather theme) ; One is
> an above-steering version of their PB960 with two major upgrades: A 20" front wheel instead of
> their 16" wheel; I think tiny wheels are deadly. The other major upgrade is upgrading from
> 21-speed SRAM 3.0 components to 24-speed SRAM 7.0, a very significant improvement.
>
> The third is the "Hurricane" with under-seat steering like the Tidal Wave, but with SRAM 7.0
> twist-shifters; Gets you a cool USS bike for way cheaper than the Tidal Wave. (not even yet posted
> on the site )
>
> My site has just gone up in the last couple of days, and I've got two EBAY ads in as well.
>
> I was too chicken to import their 'low-racers', and as for the 'Pocky Seven', I thought Americans
> wouldn't go for a recumbent with just seven speeds, even though I pretty much leave my front
> derailler in the middle all the time ; would like feedback on this; I'm strictly a COMFORT freek!
>
>
>
>
>
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> --
> Randy Schulman Founder and Big Wheel, ActionBent Recumbents 17930 NE 127th St Redmond,Wa, 98052
> Fax 425-650-4037
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