Re: [CR]Windsor and Lotus

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In-Reply-To: <200405270054.RAA04490@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <200405270054.RAA04490@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:21:04 -0400
To: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Windsor and Lotus


Donald Gillies wrote:
>Sheldon probably didn't mention Lotus on his website because the bike
>shop across town from him in Boston sold Lotus !! At least, that's
>where the Lotus Classique was purchased...

Actually I do mention Lotus on my Website, see:

http://sheldonbrown.com/japan.html#lotus

I used to sell these when I worked at Frank's Spoke 'n Wheel in Waltham, back in the late '80s. They were nice bikes. The company had bad luck though:

They had a particularly popular pair of models, the Challenger and the Challenger SX, one of which had been rated a Best Buy by Consumer Reports...and then came the crash of the spaceship of the same name, and they had to give up on that model name because of the unfortunate associations.

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