Oh, me too also. I love the IslaBikes website, and it all makes so much sense ‹ quality bikes right-sized and equipped for children, not made in China (matters to me, might not matter to you, don¹t wanna get in a big thing about it, please). But shipping from the UK would nearly double the cost of the bikes, which puts it out of range for us, especially considering we have to buy two every time.
My guess is that the regulatory hurdles of NA distribution of products for children are too daunting. I wonder what would happen if we developed a sort of temporary co-op of sorts to ship us a crate of those puppies? How many of each model would we have to buy at one time to start saving real money on shipping? Or somesuch. Rivendell content: I don¹t remember seeing such musing about Riv kids¹ bikes, but it¹s delicious to contemplate. -- Jon ³Maybe I Think Too Much² Grant Austin, Texas From: cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com> Reply-To: <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 15:21:28 -0800 To: <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: Folding bike = kids bike? I would love to see that. But it's almost a dedicated business. Islabikes in the UK <http://www.islabikes.com/> has the best line of kid bikes that I know of. I soooo wish they had a NA distributer... On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Philip Williamson <philip.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realized that this had drifted off Riv subject, but was reminded > that Grant had proposed (several years and Readers ago) the > possibility of building a run of kids' bikes, with a buyback program > when you kid out grew them. > > Has there been a breath of that since then? Am I the only one who > remembers this? > > Philip > > Philip Williamson > www.biketinker.com <http://www.biketinker.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
