Audio Banter - View Single Post - "Custom" production: fancy bicycles and the margins on Chinese amps

**Eiron** · June 21st 06, 07:17 PM posted to rec.audio.tubes,uk.rec.audio

wrote:

Crap from Andrew Jute McCoy snipped

Yeah, right. Even in Ireland, bicycles and _any other_ mechanical
consumer goods are design by mechanical engineers with actual degrees
and actual insurance, not lying poseurs and charlatans. And you can
damned well bet that before _anything_ actually gets sold to the public
the lawyers have their go at it as well.

Imagine... consider giving a bicycle to your loved one(s) that performs
as well as his amplifiers.... YIKES!

You can't easily go wrong designing a bicycle, if that means choosing a frame,
wheels etc. from a manufacturer's catalogue, and having it built for you.
To get it wrong would require something really stupid such as specifying
stainless steel for the frame.
As for a "truly radical bike frame", bicycle design was perfected a century ago
and nothing different will be required until the design of the rider changes.
(Novelties such as indexed gears aren't fundamental but if Andre could invent
antilock brakes and an efficient CVT transmission, that would be nice.)

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Eiron

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