On Jul 14, 10:44=A0am, erness.w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 14, 3:41=A0am, Peter Clinch <p.j.cli...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > erness.w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Around my area, everyone knows what a re***bent is, it's an indoor
> > > excersize bike. Thus the problem with marketing an outdoor re***bent
> > > bike.
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> > Go somewhere that isn't a problem and it's still hard to market them.
> > The name is a minor problem.
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> > > I personally never even saw one until last year when I heard a
> > > guy yelling "Yippie!" as he zoomed by me. I thought it was a crazy
> > > 'homebuilt" contraption.
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> > There's your main problem: they're so rare that hardly anyone in the
> > wider scheme of things knows they're built commercially. =A0People
> > stopping to look at my very professionally built one often assume it's
> > home made, and it can't be because I look capable of such good
> > engineering or the bike looks, well, home-made. =A0It's because they
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> > see them in bike shops.
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> > > It needs a distinctive name, one that can't be confused with
anything
> > > else, especially with indoor excersize bikes. I don't have a
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> > > brain for it but how about: Popcycle OR Mocycle (Mochet) OR
> > > Accelerbike.
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> > In NL they're called "Ligfietsen" (laying bikes), and AFAICT folk know
> > what that is. =A0It's about the most 'bent aware country in the world,
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> > they're still very rare and hard to come by. =A0Which means in turn
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> > they're relatively hard to source and expensive, expensive enough to
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> > off most casual enquiries.
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> > It's a chicken and egg thing. =A0In order to be more popular, they
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> > be more popular. =A0I don't think the name really harms them much.
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> > Pete.
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> I'm reading the replies, and I look over at the google ads linked with
> this post: they're mostly about indoor exercise bikes. Googles' ad-
> linking put re***bent in with indoor exercise bikes. Hmmm . .
Bicycle types: BMX, Mountain, Street, etc
How abouta new category: "Highway"
because:
The fastest bicycle in the world is the Varna Diablo re***bent which
broke the official world speed record on October 6, 2001 achieving the
incredible speed of 80.55 mph
Highway bicycles would be: Cannondale, Speedmachine, Trek, Rans, etc.
Get rid of the name re***bent.
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