was thinking that our Newsgroup is really dumping on BigHa a bit too much (before) the 1st bent is
on the market. I do think it is okay to criticize the design or the design cost and even the website
for lacking specifications our group lives for reading, but taking shots at the owner may not be
such a cool move. I'd give BigHa time to evolve and ease off on the company and if it does crash and
burn...then we can all dance around the smouldering wreckage. We do however seem to be dancing
before the company sells their 1st bent. Who knows, someone might actually buy one of their bents
for $3K and most anything will set a high initial price and then have room to lower the price. You
start at a rock bottom price and try raising the price and you really get hammered for doing it.
Lots of us still see Red when we see the name Corvallis and take out the negative feelings we have
for BikeE on BigHa because they too are in Corvallis.
*some of what BigHa has in the way of rider safety and anti-theft will leak into other bent designs
in the future (or should leak). *$3K is NOT all that high, some Euro-bents approach that figure and
we R not dumping on them. *Nothing stopping BigHa from using the R&D for their Intro-Bent as the
base for future less costly bents. *Everyone is sooo eager to nail an American based company and
line up to buy bents made in Taiwan. Personally I think BigHa has Balls for creating a Home Grown
bent and NOT outsourcing everything to Taiwan and just slap a U.S. Flag on the boom and declare it
an American Made product.
I say we should give BigHa time to evolve and IF they turn out to be a success...great. IF they die,
lessons learned will assist the next guy who wants to start a business doing bents.
P.S. am doing a College course in the Fine Art of Grovelling...Grovel 101, how am I doing so far?