I agree the makers of the expensive bikes really should put more effort into developing newer types, but they are often rather complacent. Just look at the ridiculous price BionX ask for their Li-ion battery, $900 in the USA. I can understand them not bothering if they can get away with prices like that for what they already have.
In their defence though, these expensive bikes sell in very small numbers, so that makes investment difficult to justify. Even the Giant Lafree Twist series reportedly only sold 20,000 bikes worldwide over it's six years. The numbers for BionX, Swizzbee, Optibike and the like must be really tiny.
Last edited by flecc : 27th February 2007 at 20:43.
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