[rollei_list] Re: Fwd: Re: New old toy..
- From: David Restall - System Administrator <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:49:28 +0100
Hi,
> Are they very pricey.
As with Rollei Cameras, it depends on what you call pricey. There is an
oft quoted truism about bicycles that the more you pay the less you get.
A cheap bike will weigh more and handle totally differently to a a high
quality machine (cheap is cheap - not inexpensive). I have regularly
paid more for a set of wheels (this is normal wheels not carbon fibre
or fancy disk wheels) than some people will pay for a bike. A good set
of wheels and tyres will transform a bike. Today most frames are mass
produced in Taiwan. Recumbents are a specialist market and tend to be
small indigenous manufacture. The production runs are smaller so the
costs tend to be a bit higher but I don't think they are disproportionate.
The one I'm making will be about £800.00 (say $1500) which is half what
a friend has just paid for a mass produced mountain bike.
Personally, I wouldn't pay that much for a mass produced bike. I could
go to a custom frame builder and sit on a jig and try out different
settings and get a hand made frame that fits perfectly for the task for
that sort of money.
Another way in which bikes are like Rollei's is that you should always
have more than one of them to suit the job in hand.
My ideal day will be a throwing a camera in my panniers going for a bike
ride and taking some photos, I now have four Rolleis, and will have four
bikes shortly too. I was doing more cycling until this blasted cold
laid me up, hopefully I'll be doing more Rollei in the future too.
P.S. OT. Nice bent Fred :-)
TTFN
D
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> On 6/7/06, Frederic Fichter <ffichter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Recumbents are nice bikes.
> > Mine is american : http://www.cyclegenius.com/cgx30.htm
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:22 AM, David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jerry,
> >
> >> To "make a recumbent" what? Recumbent is an adjective, where
> >> is the noun?
> >
> > It's a feet first bike, see :-
> > <http://www.dutchbikes.nl/bodies_uk/frame_ks2.htm>
> > for the actual model.
> >
> > It's a good job I didn't use "bent" which is often used instead of the
> > whole word :-)
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