Originally Posted by
P.L.Jensen
What I prefer on the bar's on my bike are the flattened sections along the straight part of the bar...
Designs evolve...The flatter tops are more comfortable to me... Similar to what's on my other bikes...
I do understand the "stolen" designs issue...
I pioneered a hollow wood surfboard method in 2002...
I've watched from the sidelines the replication of my designs since then...
Was I upset, no... It happens, and there is little you do about that unless you have a patent (not cheap) and deep pockets for attorneys (not cheap) to aggressively go after the infringers...
Everything has a window of originality and its inevitable that less than creative people copy the pioneers...
I decided to not be a board builder, in the sense that it was my only job...
I took my show on the road internationally and taught wood board building workshops around the world...There's good money in that and zero competition...
I could see doing something similar, traveling and teaching bike building workshops.. Wooden bikes with few design compromises... It can be done...
If you are selling a product and marketing a product and someone steals it that is 100% wrong in every way, shape and form. It is one thing to have a concept in your head or to teach others how to do it but if you went through the whole process of putting it together and getting patents and someone steals it that is a whole different can of beans.
That is what these QBVIAs and HOOGSKVAs and WEERAASs do they steal designs and Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Amazon and Alibaba and his 40 thieves give them a platform to sell this knockoff/fake/stolen stuff legitimately and unfortunately yet is is tough to fight them because the Chinese government does not really do anything to stop it and neither do the 3rd party sites that sell them so there really is no accountability.
However we can do our part and not promote their products and not use their products and give them any money or legitimacy