Originally Posted by
irwin7638
I doubt they intend to wholesale it. There are only a few shops in the country who are allowed to retail Riv's.
For the record, the photos of any of their bikes on the website really do not do them justice. There are some closeups of the finish on the Clem and Clemintine at their
Flickr group.
Marc
From my understanding, it isn't really a permission issue.
It's a margin issue.
Two shops that I frequent here were interested until they figured out the margins and market pricepoints.
It was a big "no go" from that point on.
But that wasn't really my point. The Rivendell business model restrains them to a smaller operational size.
It seems to me GP doesn't want to get any larger. Seems happy to be the size he is atm.
Cash flowing this operation must be interesting at times.