Subject: Re: Time for Retro talk!

Author: Martin Cooke

Date: Jul 11, 2000, 6:24 AM

Post ID: 1701343067

At 05:31 PM 7/10/00 -0700, you wrote:

Hi All,

I like the thought of custom bikes but I have to say that if I had my

I would take a stock bike over a custom. Unfortunately the colour choices
weren't that good in those days and there are some awesome colours out

that would look great on a Loopframe.

I'll agree with that, the black is cool, but everyone has it, the white is
cool, but not my thing, the red SUCKS, this is why i transgress on this

One thing I would like to submit for discussion.......What do you all

the market would be for a retro Eldo? Do you think that we could get the
tooling set up to produce the frames and assemble the machines cost
effectively? How much would it cost to produce (say) 100 machines and

price would be the ceiling for a retro bike? What about engines? Would

factory let us get our claws into some engines or would we have to go out
into the parts pool?

I think it would be cool, but how would we get past the EPA, braking
requirements, new electrical requirements, (ie; safety and kill switches)
all of these would require re-engineering, especially EPA. One way would

to make the parts only and the end user could assemble?

We could build them here in Canada and ship them to the states......with

exchange rates the bike would retail for about $3,000 after all was done

Ian Adkins

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Sounds very cool to me!!!!

I know that many think we sould preserve the loopframes as original, but
just think........if they caught on as customs there would be
spin-offs........clones made by other companys........I can see it now -

the

"Big Linguini Motor Co.".................
Tim Crump
MGNOC #262

98 Centauro
69 Ambassador
78 T3
98 KTM Rallye Adventure
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/YosemiteDr/guzzitim/GUZZITIM.html

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A Viper red Eldo Disc brake LAPD with LOTS of chrome?

is this

Cool, Sacreligious, or OK?
David J. Otis
Middletown MD
http://www.loopframe.com

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