Originally Posted by
mtnbke
What Grant ripped off from Cannondale was the ethos, the approach, the idea of bike packing, one bike...
Grant has been building and selling heavier, weaker, and slower copies of that "ST" concept every since. Its a powerful concept, the "one bike" Sport Touring bike, even thirty-two years later.
Well if that's your whole argument, then Cannondale ripped off that "ethos" from Alex Singer, Rene Hearse and the other lesser known
constructeurs of the 1930s - 1970s; the so-called "golden age of handbuilt bicycles."
As much as I'm enjoying my ST600, I don't see as how Cannondale invented much of anything other than those fat aluminum frames that look and ride like nothing Grant, Bridgestone or Rivvy ever produced.
Your argument is just plain silly.