Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
The 41 will hand wring about "new red" for a while - it's natural - did anyone happen to catch Richard Sach's rant on his blog about it? The reality is that while some groups have shipped to distributors demand will far outstrip supply util late in the season at best.
Kinda sucks for him, though, that they'd offer him a deal because they were actually just using him as a clearing house to get rid of the old stuff. Seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot, though. Even though that's a small segment of the market, NAHBS does get significant media exposure and how better to advertise their new beautiful groupsets than on new beautiful bikes?