Re: [CR]Re: How the mighty are fallen

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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:12:07 -0500
From: "Grant McLean" <Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: How the mighty are fallen
To: "Classic Rendezvous Mail List (E-mail)" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Steve,

Irony is not lost on me. How is it that Raleigh is even offering high end road bikes with campagnolo components in 2004? All through the 90's, Raleigh didn't even TRY to sell these bikes. A couple of years ago, someone must have pitched the idea to some raleigh exec "hey, we used to OWN the road market",

"why can't Raleigh sell expensive road bikes, instead the of the mtb crap"

Why not? Because Raleigh is dead. Unfortunately, it's the cyclists who think new bikes are crap who are partially responsible for their death, cause they can't see any value in a modern bike.

Grant McLean Toronto.Ca

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Steve Neago.Cincinnati, OH wrote: Current aluminum and carbon fiber frames such as "Professional. International, and Competition" do not compare to the original 531 and 753 framesets. The Raleigh tradition with its British steel heritage died when the Raleigh brand name and trademarks moved to the USA and outsourced manufacturing to Asia.

Witness the slow decline into darkness where Raleigh USA distribution to LBSs in the USA is declining and fading to black. The Raleigh name has become disposable like so many carbon frames when they suffer stress fractures.

The Raleigh name has now become a traded commodity between manufacturing nations instead of a tradition in the United Kingdom.

Regards,


----- Original Message -----
From: Richard M Sachs
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: How the mighty are fallen



> snipped from below:
> "When Raleigh stopped making machines in Nottingham, it died..."
>
>
> why?
> e-RICHIE