That was kind of my point. For leather saddles, Brooks already has tooling and machinery in place. For the new Cambium's, they're paying a subcontractor to make a new saddle model, needing new tooling and machinery. No matter who is making it, new products require initial investment to produce, making the Cambium's potentially more expensive to make (and subsequently cost to Brooks) than Brooks' leather models. David Chicago
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:21:10 AM UTC-5, Peter Adler wrote: > > Waitaminute - the Cambiums on sale at my LBS are clearly labeled "Made in > Italy". My understanding was that they were OEMed by Selle Italia for > Brooks. How does Brooks' tooling and machinery have any bearing on the > price of a saddle manufactured by a subcontractor? > > Maybe I'm missing some key bit of information. I stopped paying attention > to the Cambium developments once I failed to make it into the beta test. > > Peter Adler > Berkeley, CA/USA > > On Monday, August 11, 2014 2:48:39 PM UTC-7, David Banzer wrote: >> >> I would think with Brooks' tooling and machinery in place, that a leather >> saddle would be less expensive for them to make than the Cambium. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
