Joined: Oct 2020
Posts: 1,498
Likes: 1,166
From: Phoenix, AZ
Bikes: 1964(?) Frejus Tour de France, 1967(?) Dawes Double Blue, 1979 Trek 710, 1982 Claud Butler Dalesman, 1983 Schwinn Paramount Elite, 1984 Miyata 1000, 2014 Brompton, maybe a couple more
McBean was a piker. It's not a truly modern business model unless you can get the customers to pay you every month for the rest of their lives for the privilege of using the intellectual property associated with the cut down steerer.