Originally Posted by
pacificcyclist
This is all becoming more entertainment by the day! LOL.
Shill -- oooOOOOhhhHHHH! Let me ask these people the reversed question. Why are these people passing judgement? Afraid that Dahon and Tern might just pull it off? Are they worried that their bikes might become popular enough that their own bikes don't get the attention they sorely needed from the public. The recognition, the kudos, the prestige wane as these 2 companies start racking up their own fan base with these new bikes. I am not sure what you guys do with your bikes, but I just ride them. I don't immortalize the brand name on a mantel piece and pay homage to its highness and greatness. It's just a bike.
But are you not yourself passing judgement - on bikes that you have not ridden or even seen, passing judgement in fact on bikes that you know no more about than any other poster here, after all I don't even think Thor has gotten to ride any of them yet. Dahon already has a "fan base" for their existing bikes, (for example, both Mr Mulleady and myself have Jetstreams), so there is nothing to suggest that what ever new bikes they put on the market will also gather a following, but to repeatedly suggest that whatever Dahon/Tern do in future is going to automatically be "best in class" is just fan base drivel. I'm all for letting the new bikes speak for themselves, if they are great bikes then we will soon all know, we just don't the rabid invective.