Goes to show advertising hype related to bikes isn't new. This guy could head up a marketing department today. Note that the photo of the bike doesn't show nearly as many plastic components as the copy describes. I seem to recall seeing other ads with a photo of a totally plastic bike, maybe even spokes, as described in the past thread I referred to. Considering some of the components that have since been manufactured from carbon fibre/ composites, it's maybe not so incredible people believed the story, but the level of hype in the ads (impervious to bullets and sulfuric acid) should have made one suspicious.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Slotkin [mailto:jeffslotkin@home.com] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:49 PM To: Jeff Archer Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: SV: [CR]Bike Materials [was] Titanium rims on eBay
At 11:03 PM 4/23/2001 -0400, Jeff Archer wrote:
>I have the ad copy and 2 scans of the Original Plastic Bike @
>http://www.firstflightbikes.com/newpage5.htm
>Makes for some interesting reading.
Whoever wrote that must surely have a cabinet position by now.
Jeff Slotkin
TheLocalSpoke
Goose Creek, SC