Originally Posted by
repechage
They were interesting bikes. If they had been willing to increase the tube diameters here and there they could really have been dominant.
Looks like from the intro to the book lots of champions rode Alan bikes. Sounds like a successful business to me.
I know of a lot of companies that avoid being dominant, they just want to build neat things, or innovate or stay quirky, or ...???
Maybe I should read the book.