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

"Peter Clinch" <p.j.clinch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:6e31m6F545nsU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> erness.wild@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Half right IMHO.
> I think a lot of the problem is that keen cyclists see most bikes as
> functional types: you have a city bike for the city, a touring bike for
> touring, a racing bike for racing etc.  And that leaves as a "re***bent"
> as, well, something you lie back on?  It's divorced from what the bike
> actually /does/, which could be city, touring, racing etc.
>
> I think it would help if "re***bent" was seen as an adjective rather
> than a plain noun.  I ride a re***bent tourer.  It's very different from
> a re***bent racer.  You'd not get most cyclists confusing a tourer and a
> racer, but they lump re***bents all together regardless of functional
> design.
>
> Pete.
>
> Peter Clinch                    Medical Physics IT Officer
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This jerk wants to rename re***bents when he has got the worst signature
in 
Usenet history.  If he wants to rename something, he should begin with his

signature. I don't know about you, but I sure do hate pompous *****!

Regards,

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