RANS should look to Low End Market

I would love to test ride the new Ti StratusXP. It looks awesome. Yet
I continue to wonder how many $3-5k plus bikes RANS and others expect
to sell. I'd like to see RANS revisit the lower end market. It seems
to me that a $600 Rocket and a $700 Tailwind with perhaps more
pedestrian components would entice more would be recumbent buyers into
the wonderful word of recumbency.

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA

stratrider wrote:
I would love to test ride the new Ti StratusXP. It looks awesome. Yet
I continue to wonder how many $3-5k plus bikes RANS and others expect
to sell. I'd like to see RANS revisit the lower end market. It seems
to me that a $600 Rocket and a $700 Tailwind with perhaps more
pedestrian components would entice more would be recumbent buyers into
the wonderful word of recumbency.

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA



How many light planes to they sell?

Roger Zoul wrote:

stratrider wrote:
I would love to test ride the new Ti StratusXP. It looks awesome. Yet
I continue to wonder how many $3-5k plus bikes RANS and others expect
to sell. I'd like to see RANS revisit the lower end market. It seems
to me that a $600 Rocket and a $700 Tailwind with perhaps more
pedestrian components would entice more would be recumbent buyers into
the wonderful word of recumbency.

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA



How many light planes to they sell?

The general aviation industry reached an all-time high for billings,
which totaled $15.1 billion, a 27.2 percent increase over 2004.
Year-end, worldwide shipments of general aviation airplanes totaled
3,580 units for 2005, up 20.8 percent over the previous year's total
of 2,963 units.

"stratrider" wrote in message
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I would love to test ride the new Ti StratusXP. It looks awesome. Yet
I continue to wonder how many $3-5k plus bikes RANS and others expect
to sell. I'd like to see RANS revisit the lower end market. It seems
to me that a $600 Rocket and a $700 Tailwind with perhaps more
pedestrian components would entice more would be recumbent buyers into
the wonderful word of recumbency.

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA

Right you are Jim - as always. The one thing that has kept recumbents from
ever becoming popular has been the high prices. Most folks do not want to
spend a thousand or more dollars for a bike. A very good question indeed.
Why doesn't RANS bring out a $500. recumbent and see what happens. It would
be an interesting experiment if nothing else.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

"dlhii" wrote in message
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Roger Zoul wrote:

stratrider wrote:
I would love to test ride the new Ti StratusXP. It looks awesome. Yet
I continue to wonder how many $3-5k plus bikes RANS and others expect
to sell. I'd like to see RANS revisit the lower end market. It seems
to me that a $600 Rocket and a $700 Tailwind with perhaps more
pedestrian components would entice more would be recumbent buyers into
the wonderful word of recumbency.

How many light planes to they sell?

The general aviation industry reached an all-time high for billings,
which totaled $15.1 billion, a 27.2 percent increase over 2004.
Year-end, worldwide shipments of general aviation airplanes totaled
3,580 units for 2005, up 20.8 percent over the previous year's total
of 2,963 units.

Flying a light airplane is just about the most dangerous thing you can do.
It is a wonder to me that RANS has not been sued out of existence by now.
Hells Bells, I do not even like to go up in big, heavy commercial airplanes.
If God had intended man to fly, He would have given him wings. Thus spake
Zarathustra.

John Denver would be alive today still caterwauling about wonderful West
Virginia if he not been so stupid as to want to fly light experimental
aircraft. Well, stupid is as stupid does.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota