On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:02:04 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
On 5/18/2018 5:13 PM, ERSHC wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2018 13:44:19 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

Which is unrelated, those being actual products. The
Original Plastic Bike, Inc was only a brochure with slick
photo production but there was no actual product.

OPB may never have sold a bike, but they had at least one store front,
so were (slightly) more than "only a brochure". This was probably
summer of 1972. I was working in a bike shop in Rocky Point, NY (on
Long Island). OPB opened a store in a strip mall a few miles away (on
25A, maybe in Miller Place?) that was closed by the end of the summer.


Did you ever go in? I ask because the brochure showed
relatively pedestrian bike parts (some recognizable by
brand/model) with glossy polyurethane paint in bold colors.
Nothing about the presentation would have fooled an
experienced mechanic, engineer or injection mold specialist.
There was no serious attempt to disguise metal objects
which, by their shape, could not possibly be executed
successfully in polymers.


I never got in, and I don't recall seeing a bike. The one time I
stopped by, the place was already closed. I think my boss at the time
stopped in (or somehow saw the bikes) because I do recall a customer
asking about them and him replying that they didn't (yet?) have chains
and all the parts were "non-standard".


Apparently the brochure was 'good enough' to swindle some
number of investors.

Go though the linked brochure images. It's amateurish IMHO.