Originally Posted by
Pocko
One thing's for sure, if I (or one of us) came up with that design and put a considerable portion of our lives on the line to see it through, I'd be pretty piss'd-off too if other factories grabbed the idea then marketed the product based on manufacturing costs alone. But what can we do? Who wants to spend more money with litigation?
T'is the times we live in...
This debate came up a million times talking about fake bikes, and Mark Sanders had publicly made his sentiments known. If he can just see more people riding bikes, regardless if they are real/fake/otherwise, and it took knock-offs of his lifes work to make that happen, he is more than satisfied.
he is looking at the bigger picture of what bicycles should be used for - not profited from.
Originally Posted by EvilV
Originally Posted by EvilV
I even rode it two miles down a fieldside mud path yesterday and it even handled that, inspite of ending up very muddy.
I have actually taken my bike around and returned 24 beer bottles on it, and have been riding it 3x a week, even in the snow, here in toronto. I've been riding it to my weekly spinning classes at the gym and for errands to run around my urban neighborhood.
Its rather neat looking, with 2x 6 packs in the pannier and another case of 12 bottles on the rack.