Re: The Problem with Marketing the Re***bent isThe Name

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> On Jul 14, 1:40 pm, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <erness.w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Jul 14, 10:44 am, erness.w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
>>
>> Re***bents are not about speed, they are about comfort. Therefore, 
>> re***bent
>> is the perfect name for them even though you are positioned on them in
a
>> semi-re***bent posture. Young cyclists have no interest in them by and
>> large. That comes later when you get old, wise and cranky.
>
> <snip> Young cyclists have no interest in them by and
>> large.</snip>
>
> I disagree with that comment. The Pacific Coast Chopper is
> very similar to a highway bicycle (re***bent). Kids are riding them.
> It isn't a diamond frame bicycle that holds the world land speed
> record.
> Granted, the PCC is taken from a motorcycle style but the
> configuration
> is very similar to a highway* bicycle (re***bent).

I have been around re***bents for 25 years and I can tell you that there
are 
very few young people who have any interest in this style of bicycle. 
Serious young cyclists want to be fast and re***bents are as slow as 
mol***** going up hills.

Get back to me when re***bents start winning races like the Tour de
France. 
I think the Tour is in the Pyrenees today. There is no re***bent that can 
perform worth a damn in the mountains. They are strictly for older folks
who 
want to ride a bicycle in comfort.

In any event, you are just terrible at thinking up new names for
re***bents, 
which do not need them. They are perfectly named as is.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota