Subject: Re: Time for Retro talk!
Author: Dave Otis
Date: Jul 11, 2000, 5:34 AM
Post ID: 1701342243
At 05:31 PM 7/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
| Hi All, I like the thought of custom bikes but I have to say that if I had my choice I would take a stock bike over a custom. Unfortunately the colour choices weren't that good in those days and there are some awesome colours out there that would look great on a Loopframe. |
I'll agree with that, the black is cool, but everyone has it, the white is
cool, but not my thing, the red SUCKS, this is why i transgress on this area.
One thing I would like to submit for discussion.......What do you all think the market would be for a retro Eldo? Do you think that we could get the tooling set up to produce the frames and assemble the machines cost effectively? How much would it cost to produce (say) 100 machines and what price would be the ceiling for a retro bike? What about engines? Would the factory let us get our claws into some engines or would we have to go out into the parts pool? |
I think it would be cool, but how would we get past the EPA, braking
requirements, new electrical requirements, (ie; safety and kill switches)
all of these would require re-engineering, especially EPA. One way would be
to make the parts only and the end user could assemble?
We could build them here in Canada and ship them to the states......with the exchange rates the bike would retail for about $3,000 after all was done :-) Ian Adkins
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