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Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: NorCal7/15/17 10:29 AM |
I'm still wondering if perhaps these are cases of "startups" being funded by LeMond, and thus possibly tending to attract those hoping to take his money, or if it's perhaps more the case of LeMond's name being hired out for publicity for these ventures.
If the latter, it might explain the switch to a different country, different audience and likely different market for the carbon raw materials and for finished goods, since the implosion in their current company headquarters would by now have sent any domestic/local investors running for the hills.
I speculated months ago that the bicycle and sports-celebrity side of these sort of ventures might merely be an attempt to lend a sexy image to lower-cost composites used for mundane applications in various industries, and as before it is stated that the carbon materials are expected to be made available well before any bicycle production is ready to begin.
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