All carbon DJI Velduro Rogue to be Distributed in the UK by Sevenoaks Bikes. (Wisper)

[Wisper Bikes]

Super high end, full carbon DJI Avinox Powered eMTB to be launched in the UK next month.

Interest in these bikes since Eurobike has been phenomena,l we already have orders for 12 through the NZ website. We have worked with the guys in NZ for 15 years and know then and their product well, they are true eMTB nuts!

We are starting off with frame sets only in S M L and XL.

Our website VeduroBikes.co.uk will be up and running at the beginning of September but until then you can express interest by emailing me david@sevenoaksbikes.com or visiting https://www.velduro.com/rogue-enduro-emtb

Introducing the Velduro Rogue e-MTB - Powered by the DJI Avinox drive system #djiebike #emtb

First hits on the Velduro Rogue e-MTB at the Redwoods, Rotorua, New Zealand @paigefensom @amelia_white_mtbRider- @jamiegarrod @NewZealandMountainBiking

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All the best, David

 

[saneagle]

Years ago, I was talking with the Haibike rep while walking back to the hotel after a show. He covered a very affluent catchment area. He told me that the higher the price of the bike, the more of them he could sell because there was a sort of one-upmanship amongst his clientele. They had just added a £50 dropper seat post to their previous model and charged an extra £500 for it. It caused all his previous buys to have to trade in and buy the new model.

I bet a new cassette for that Velduro is going to cost more than my entire bike, though what keeps me smug is knowing that I can beat it in a race from Telford to Shrewsbury and my bike can carry more shopping.

 

[Wisper Bikes]

Hi!

Ive been amazed at the interest, one guy has ordered two, one for his wife and one for himself. I have seen the bike in the flesh and it's quite amazing.

All the best, David

 

[saneagle]

Hi!

Ive been amazed at the interest, one guy has ordered two, one for his wife and one for himself. I have seen the bike in the flesh and it's quite amazing.

All the best, David

You have to tell us how much it is!

 

[AGS]

I looked at the price in NZD and it certainly correlates to “Super high end”.

 

[Wisper Bikes]

In the UK from £4,299 (Frame set) to £8,799 fully fitted.

All the best, David

 

[saneagle]

£8,799!!! Are you going to do £10 off for forum members? That might swing it for me.

Some people are going to jump at it, but I look at it and think "nice bicycle" then I look at this for slightly less:

 

[Peter.Bridge]

Years ago, I was talking with the Haibike rep while walking back to the hotel after a show. He covered a very affluent catchment area. He told me that the higher the price of the bike, the more of them he could sell because there was a sort of one-upmanship amongst his clientele. They had just added a £50 dropper seat post to their previous model and charged an extra £500 for it. It caused all his previous buys to have to trade in and buy the new model.

I bet a new cassette for that Velduro is going to cost more than my entire bike, though what keeps me smug is knowing that I can beat it in a race from Telford to Shrewsbury and my bike can carry more shopping.

I've noticed near me that there are quite a few "over 60s" that seem to have "money to burn". They have seemingly huge houses, which they are forever extending (although the majority are just retired couples), second homes abroad, Motorhomes, brand new latest EVs (and quite a few have "top end" e-bikes). I think this would be a good segment to target. For instance they don't seem to do anything but pootle about on their e-bikes and their off road riding is on very gentle tracks. Good luck to them, you can't spend money when you are dead ! I did wonder where they got this money from, lump sum payments from pensions ? inheritances ? businesses that they own ?

 

[AndyBike]

I bet a new cassette for that Velduro is going to cost more than my entire bike,

I reckon 3 bags of jelly babies cost more than your bike

The speecced cassette is £240ish in an AXS system.

Hope sales go well. getting some good interest reviews in the real bike forums

 

[saneagle]

I've noticed near me that there are quite a few "over 60s" that seem to have "money to burn". They have seemingly huge houses, which they are forever extending (although the majority are just retired couples), second homes abroad, Motorhomes, brand new latest EVs (and quite a few have "top end" e-bikes). I think this would be a good segment to target. For instance they don't seem to do anything but pootle about on their e-bikes and their off road riding is on very gentle tracks. Good luck to them, you can't spend money when you are dead ! I did wonder where they got this money from, lump sum payments from pensions ? inheritances ? businesses that they own ?

If you had a reasonable middle management job, you bought your house fairly early in your life and had not too many kids early, then you didn't waste money on frequent new cars, phones, PCs, foreign holidays, Sky packages, drink, eating out or cigarettes, you'd have plenty of time to gain wealth for all those luxuries. The main thing is to avoid debt and not waste money. Money makes money. When you have a surplus, like I do, you can afford to waste it, but after a life of frugality, that's hard to do. I can just about manage to make the odd donation to Woosh and a few others, but I'd need to be on tranquillisers before I could help out Wisper with £8,800. I don't think I could even rationalise £2,000 for a Wisper shopper unless I was diagnosed with a terminal illness. We're all different.

 

[Peter.Bridge]

Money makes money.

You reminded me of this

 

[saneagle]

You reminded me of this

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That's right, so if someone didn't buy a new car or go on a foreign holiday in 2004, they could be £70,000 better off today. Then you can think about all the other things that you bought that weren't essential, and it makes you a bit angry with yourself.

 

[soundwave]

 

[saneagle]

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Should have bought gold. It's gone up massively since you bought that. In 2020 a silver Britannia was about £29. Today it's £33.50. That's +16%. In 2020 a gold Britannia was £1400. Today, it's £2600. That's +86%. Also, there's no VAT on gold, so you get a better price when you sell it.

 

[soundwave]

im going to get 8 gold 1oz coins and made 100 quid on that bar

 

[saneagle]

im going to get 8 gold 1oz coins and made 100 quid on that bar

Good luck.

BTW, if someone breaks into your house and steals it, it wasn't me, so it must be Peter.

 

[AndyBike]

Do you have enough to live on ? Buy which i mean, pay the bills, pay for food, cover rent or mortgage, maybe a bit left aside for emergencies.

Other than that what are you looking to save for ?.

We're here for a tiny fraction of time, and a long time dead. So enjoy life, as that is the important bit

 

[Wisper Bikes]

These bikes are a luxury item, but what a bike! We have £8,000 non electric bikes in our shop, they are beautiful. Another customer spent over £15,000 on a non electric mountain bike.
I understand that some people will pay a fortune for a golf club or even a watch that simply tells the time, or a holiday that’s over and done with in two weeks. Some people simply want the best and the best can be expensive.

All the best, David

 

[flecc]

That's right, so if someone didn't buy a new car or go on a foreign holiday in 2004, they could be £70,000 better off today.

And be a rich, unhappy or dead person.
.

 

[Tony1951]

These bikes are a luxury item, but what a bike! We have £8,000 non electric bikes in our shop, they are beautiful. Another customer spent over £15,000 on a non electric mountain bike.
I understand that some people will pay a fortune for a golf club or even a watch that simply tells the time, or a holiday that’s over and done with in two weeks. Some people simply want the best and the best can be expensive.

All the best, David

As a moderately well off miser, I don't understand why anyone would re-invent the bicycle in this form. I realise this is a quirk of my bizarre personality. One of my sons who is very much into top end bicycles and does triathlons regularly has a bike worth about the same as that one. When I say 'worth', I raise my eyebrows, and think I ought to have said, 'which cost', because to me it is far from worth it, but like I said. That's just me. Other factors which make me think like this are things such as the fragility of carbon fibre structures when they for example get dropped with a rider's weight and speed onto a gravel road. That no doubt lovely thing can become useless, irreparable scrap in a moment through an accident that other bikes might easily have survived.

Of course David / Wisper is right, some people will pay for this kind of special machine and he is in the business of selling them the machines they dream of owning. It just won't be me buying them and nobody cares about that. Why would they?