Originally Posted by
Stray8
Nick Wigston of Zinn Cycles said that their sales of the V2 increased between 50% - 100% this year:
Originally Posted by wigston
I've been doing some marketing for Paketa, and I have noticed a huge increase in sales of the V2 Racing Tandem. It is by far Paketa's most popular product. Seems like a lot of people are going tandem, and even racing. So I don't know if that's congruent with the rest of the industry, but locally I have seen an increase.
... but no one's ever quantified "50% to 100% of what"?
If they sold 10 in '08 and 20 in '09, that would be different than 5 going to 10, or 20 going to 40. 40 would be a lot of Paketa tandems... Heck, it would be a healthy number of Calfee tandems in a year (or, at least it would have been a while back). I think our '08 Calfee was somewhere around No. 220... remembering that Calfee built it's first tandem back in 1998 or there abouts. In fact, it would be interesting to hear what serial number is on Ritterview's new Calfee or uspspro's Calfee just to get a feel for the production tempo at Calfee.
I'm not taking anything away from the Paketa tandems; most of the folks who have 'em love 'em... which is true of most high-end tandems: you can't please all of the people all of the time, eh? But, statements like that from marketing types are always interesting...