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9th-Dec-2008 08:26 pm
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If the strength and duration of the inhalation mean anything, the price tag on the Glyde is the most too-expensive I've ever encountered.
(Or rather, I suspect, the most more-expensive-than-I-expected I've ever encountered. I'm not really a Human Powered Vehicle Person, as it were, so I'd been thinking of the Glyde, vaguely, as "sort of like a bicycle, but with more shiny", and assuming that the price tag, if I thought of it at all, would be in sort of the same range.)
The deceptive thing about recumbent pricing today is that there are now high (although not quite mass) production models around and this has brought the prices & delivery times down sharply.
Compare the custom Greenspeed of 1995 (6 month wait, ~$3000) with the say the GT5 I bought in 2005 (1 week wait, ~$3500).
OTOH anyone playing with the Greenspeed Custom Shop order form can quite easily get the pricing for a custom Greenspeed over $10,000.
It's actually kind of fun to watch the price rocket up as you pile on the options. Wheels with titanium spokes and powdercoated rims? Rohloff Hub? Speed Drive?
:)