Anyone see this weeks Apprentice? The task was to design and sell electric bikes.
I challenge you to watch it without screaming at the screen............
I challenge you to watch it without screaming at the screen............
Sorry, I had a much more worthwhile way of spending my time this evening, I cut my lawn under torchlight using nail clippers.Anyone see this weeks Apprentice? The task was to design and sell electric bikes.
I challenge you to watch it without screaming at the screen............
I posted about it last week, where I said that it would likely make you scream at the TV.Anyone see this weeks Apprentice? The task was to design and sell electric bikes.
I challenge you to watch it without screaming at the screen............
The £1,300 is the retail price, those special large buyers get 50% discount too.The whole thing was fiction. There's no way those traders would have paid £1300 for those bikes. That's very close to the retail price.
Looks like a Kalkhoff.Change the wheel colour (but not white!) and logos and it would be OK.
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That makes the whole thing non-nonsensical. Those dealers, including Halfords, would already be dealing with Raleigh bikes, so why would they buy from those dimwits?I reckon it's a Raleigh Strada Elite
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The whole program is a wind-up, there's no point in taking it too seriously.That makes the whole thing non-nonsensical. Those dealers, including Halfords, would already be dealing with Raleigh bikes, so why would they buy from those dimwits?
I think this is the folding bike they had. £2500 is a ridiculous price for it. No wonder they sold so many at £1100. That's 127% profit! If what they showed were true, the Apprentices would have had to buy at a lower price than £1100 to make a profit for themselves - say £800, so a normal dealer buying from Raleigh would make 200% profit. Maybe they were just acting as agents for Raleigh.
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You're right, but looking back on it, they just went to Raleigh HQ and picked from their standard bikes, which they were allowed to rebrand and recolour - maybe add a rack, mudguards etc too, and minimal choice of tyres.I watched the program (I have 3 ebikes) but thought both desighns a little dated as regards the battery mounting.
a lot of manufacturers mount the battery inside the frame for folding ebikes, and others have a shroud to conceal the downtube battery a bit.
halfords already sell folding ebikes much cheaper than the one on the show.
as for the efit bike for £1700 or
whatever you normally get front suspention, also I cannot think of any cyclist I know of any age that would be seen dead in that lycra outfit.
You could have painted one of your existing bikes red and said, "done".I came home from work whilst the show was on to find my wife shouting at the screen!!!
She asked if a group of dimwits could develop and bring to market a bike in a week how comes it takes me two years of late nights!!! Fair pont!!!
All the best, David