Originally Posted by
canam73
Your right about all of the above. But that doesn't necessarily translate into bike sales. I'd like to see the sales figures for the different Lemond frame materials because I see the steel ones on road fairly often but not so much anything else, and that's also what the people in thread appear to be most interested in. I don't know why a future Lemond frame building venture wouldn't involve what sold well in the past and what posters here seem to miss in the marketplace.
To go state of the art would require some pretty deep pockets which I don't think Greg has or another partner like Trek. Otherwise, it won't happen.
I'm not really following your argument here. You started off by saying that traditional frames wouldn't sell, and now you seem to be saying that future Lemond bikes would likely be traditional, because that's what sells.
To my mind, there is a void in the marketplace for an American road bike. Sure you have Trek and Specialized but those companies have determinedly watered down their image with hybrids and other such nonsense. I think Cervelo has proven that an innovative company can be successful focusing purely on the high end of bike retail. Perhaps an American company with some name cachet and some innovation could give American cyclists - especially in a certain age group, which seems to be buying a lot of these high end bikes - something with some history to buy and be proud of.