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I must say I really dislike these "dork" commuters
that I see from Monark, DBS, etc. They are the new iteration of the standard bike, and are solid bikes, but - old bikes had steel frames, these are aluminium which is obviously not as cool and makes for bikes with really wide tubes to compensate, and still end up wobbly sometimes - old bikes were almost never, ever black, virtually all "dorks" are (old bikes were bright color, sky blue etc.) - old bikes had rim dynamo, these have Shimano hub dynamo. I never liked the old dynamos, so here is a point for the new bikes. - old bikes had side-pull hand brake on the front wheel if they were three speed, new have linear pull or V-brakes, which perhaps are better in some sense but many who ride these bikes (which all have coaster brakes) never use the hand brake anyway - old bikes had a Torpedo three speed or single speed hub, these have the equivalent from Shimano, Nexus and all that which are equivalent IMO So why people pay insane amounts to get virtually what they had as kids is beyond me. Or actually that is the answer. They are so used to what they once and henceforth did so now when they have some money as young adults they buy the same thing, only for much more money, money they could have used to buy a real fun, fast road bike instead. But they don't understand that because they never tried it and believes its for sport only. And if they really want what they had as kids why not buy it second hand and get the same, in some aspects even better, for a fifth or tenths of the sum? -- underground experts exiled |
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On 7/19/2018 8:42 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
I must say I really dislike these "dork" commuters that I see from Monark, DBS, etc. They are the new iteration of the standard bike, and are solid bikes, but - old bikes had steel frames, these are aluminium which is obviously not as cool and makes for bikes with really wide tubes to compensate, and still end up wobbly sometimes - old bikes were almost never, ever black, virtually all "dorks" are (old bikes were bright color, sky blue etc.) - old bikes had rim dynamo, these have Shimano hub dynamo. I never liked the old dynamos, so here is a point for the new bikes. - old bikes had side-pull hand brake on the front wheel if they were three speed, new have linear pull or V-brakes, which perhaps are better in some sense but many who ride these bikes (which all have coaster brakes) never use the hand brake anyway - old bikes had a Torpedo three speed or single speed hub, these have the equivalent from Shimano, Nexus and all that which are equivalent IMO So why people pay insane amounts to get virtually what they had as kids is beyond me. Or actually that is the answer. They are so used to what they once and henceforth did so now when they have some money as young adults they buy the same thing, only for much more money, money they could have used to buy a real fun, fast road bike instead. But they don't understand that because they never tried it and believes its for sport only. And if they really want what they had as kids why not buy it second hand and get the same, in some aspects even better, for a fifth or tenths of the sum? Simple but true answer is,"That's what sells". In your neighborhood in Sweden anyway. So why people pay insane amounts to get virtually what they had as kids is beyond me. Just as truly, "When the customer becomes the problem, you're in the wrong business". Wise words. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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AMuzi writes:
Simple but true answer is,"That's what sells". In your neighborhood in Sweden anyway. DBS is Norwegian... But other than that, yeah. So why people pay insane amounts to get virtually what they had as kids is beyond me. Just as truly, "When the customer becomes the problem, you're in the wrong business". Wise words. I'm in the wrong business. Ha ha ha. No kidding. -- underground experts exiled |
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