On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 5:19:00 PM UTC-6, Andrew Huston wrote: > > No, but making Hilsens and Hunqs in Taiwan batch-style, could make these > bikes more accessible with minimal quality decrease.
True, but that would require Riv to pre-order, and then stock, a very large number of frames. Models like the Hilsen, Hunq, Roadeo come in many more sizes (8--12 or so, looking at the geometry tables) than Clems, Chevs, Sams, or Joes (3--5). It would be a pretty big investment to build up that much stock and find a place to keep it all. Would those lower prices increase the sales volume enough to cover the costs of maintaining all that stock? I don't know, but I doubt it. If it were, then they could probably get pretty close to that volume with the current imported models, unless there's just a huge pent-up demand only for lower priced Roadeos and Hunqs that Sams and Joes (and Roadinis) simply cannot satisfy. Maybe. I think it's a hard problem for a small business like them. -- Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
