Originally Posted by brakemeister

Kamtsa I said it before.... Court stuff, and lawyer who are trying to make themself rich on this deal are of NO INTEREST to me.

What is of interest is the bikes the two companies Dahon and Tern are producing, the pricepoints, the quality and such.
What was in the past, who owned what and where is not my concern at all.

I am a dealer who makes ( partly anyhow) his lifelyhood selling the bikes of the two companies. Therefore I should be concerned if there would be any "meat" to all that talk. But I am not .
A consumer who is buying a bike ( its just a bicycle you know, not a house ) is not at all exposed to any of this anyhow. Therefore I do not understand why on heavens earth you are slinging this mud around all the time. Does that serve any purpose ? Are you involved in this behind the scene family drama ? Lets hear ..I am willing to learn

to the OP... I do not think that any subsupplier would risk his partnership with a major customer, selling one bike straight out. Besides this would be almost impossible o do anyhow ...Reason : The company like Dahon or Tern or SpecializedTrek or whatever ... makes a contract, they will order and pay for the components usually which are send to the assemble, which gets a cut for every bike being assembled.... sometimes contracts are different, but in general it works like that..... as long as they pay their invoices it will be next to imossible to walk out with a bike....

thor