There was nothing on our bikes that could have been patented. A bike is a bike, and any competent bicycle engineer could spend five minutes with one of our bikes and a tape measure, and be able to duplicate it.

I was upset at the time, but 38 years of reflection has changed my view. Almost no one gets to change the world in the slightest, and most who DO change it just make stuff worse.

As far as I can tell, our activities improved the world, changed bicycling forever, and put millions of people on bikes. Even an inexpensive, mass produced version of our design was a fine, solid, practical bike.

Gary and I were going to go bankrupt anyway.