Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:23:13 -0800 From: Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com> To: "philcycles@aol.com" <philcycles@aol.com> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]RE: CAMPAGNOLO PARTS
<philcycles@aol.com> wrote:
> Two or three years ago someone did reproduce Campy hoods with logos and >as I remember Campy did care. A lot.
The fact that one guy could afford to tool up and have good quality world logo gum hoods made up is instructive of how little effort it would entail for a relatively large company to do so as well. Campagnolo could probably easily have them made up in China or Taiwan at worst for <$5.00/pair (I'm being VERY generous here...), sell them retail for say $30.00/ pair, easily recoup their investment and still have lots and lots left and everyone would live happily ever after. It would obviously be such a trivially small endeavor and investment, all the arguments against it melt before that simple fact.
The real question isn't why but why not, and I don't think anyone has really answered that very convincingly.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA ------------------------------
OK, the bullshit has to stop now. The guy in question "reverse-Engineered" a world-logo hood by making a cast of one, and then hand-making a small mold. He was able to make 4 hoods PER DAY, and at about $50 per pair, was not even breaking even on them. Campy shut him down within 14 days for copyright infringement. He certainly wasn't "tooled up" to make them in quantity. I never saw one of his parts, and I seriously doubt they were "good quality." Gravity-cast, and hand-poured, most likely. Current Campy hoods, made in large volumes in today's Global marketplace, retail for about $40 per pair. Greg "no BS zone" Parker Dexter, Michigan