Originally Posted by
ladi
So is an assembly line set up already and production is running? Workers are trained for assembly and everything? Is there any information on how many bikes were produced already?
I guess this is quite important for the Helix economically. Only when mass production is running at acceptable quality it will be possible to estimate how much the price for a bike will be on the long run.
So it would seem, with bikes to begin shipping in a matter of a week or two. We've seen many elements of the production process in place including the assembly stations and in November last year staff had been recruited and were being trained for assembly. There is an unknown inventory of frames that have been steadily being manufactured for months now.
As referenced in a post above, one of the outsourced production steps - frame finishing, has recently been brought in house due to quality issues and there has been a design change to one of the components, so there are some tweaks in progress to the back end of the production line, therefore no bikes 100% complete yet I assume - otherwise they'd be shipping now, not in a week or two.
We don't know current or projected production rates for sure, but we do have a sense of what they are expecting/hoping to acheive. I don't think they would want that shared at this stage though.