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This is very true - i was wrong on the pricing thing. Apologies to the Cove
for that libel on the costing.
Re: the VPP, it's working for other bike brands, it just stikes me as wrong
when bike brands hop around from single pivot to VPP to horst to whatever. No
brand has a bottomless well of R+D money or design experience, and when it's a
small brand, i think they're usually better off sticking with what they 'know'
and dialing the intangibles - cable routing, geometry, dropouts etc etc.
I think it's a missed opportunity to use off shore manufacturing to make
something that was more Shore Core than this. From the beginning Cove bikes
have been about making stuff that was appropriate for the local riding that
wasn't available from the other guys. Not just 'it's the same as the rest but
with a Cove decal on it'. Look at the time period of the Stiffee, the Peeler,
the G Spot. All genre defining bikes.
Too much catalog bike and not enough Cove bike.
This is all as a guy who pretty much wore a hole in my first Cove catalog in
1999 or 2000. I really really want them to be bikes i want to buy again.
Apologies for seeming like i'm just bitching for the sake of bitching.
Jan. 9, 2014, 11:59 a.m. - nouseforaname
#!markdown This is very true - i was wrong on the pricing thing. Apologies to the Cove for that libel on the costing. Re: the VPP, it's working for other bike brands, it just stikes me as wrong when bike brands hop around from single pivot to VPP to horst to whatever. No brand has a bottomless well of R+D money or design experience, and when it's a small brand, i think they're usually better off sticking with what they 'know' and dialing the intangibles - cable routing, geometry, dropouts etc etc. I think it's a missed opportunity to use off shore manufacturing to make something that was more Shore Core than this. From the beginning Cove bikes have been about making stuff that was appropriate for the local riding that wasn't available from the other guys. Not just 'it's the same as the rest but with a Cove decal on it'. Look at the time period of the Stiffee, the Peeler, the G Spot. All genre defining bikes. Too much catalog bike and not enough Cove bike. This is all as a guy who pretty much wore a hole in my first Cove catalog in 1999 or 2000. I really really want them to be bikes i want to buy again. Apologies for seeming like i'm just bitching for the sake of bitching.