Scooterotica

byron wrote:

bazman wrote:Just had a look on Broadwords facebook page , what's his actual grief

yes, it comes across really badly... shame

He seems to have removed his original post, which I thought showed MB in a really bad light. Perhaps it is as well that it has gone.

Yes Mark, nice crank, but as you can imagine, the the 99mm web crank and the DACtek items are very different animals.

The advice that Harry was given that the crank pin should have at least 7mm of metal around it. The 61mm has 8mm, so he is in the correct ball park. Interestingly, I haven't found him talking about bigger stroke cranks. I have seen some 64mm cranks with very little meat around the pin, and they looked a bit, err, fragile.

The cranks are 99mm because of limits within the manufacturer's CNC machine.

Anyway, interesting stuff.

joespeed wrote:why is mbd advertising on 'facebook' when he should be advertising on the scootering websites? this is the better method surely and he can answer to the right people?

Mark/Mb developments are branching out, nobody is ever going to make a fortune from scooters classic or new
so clothing, tour guide help and motorcycle accessories is where i think mark sees the future and good luck to him, so more facebook for Mb and less scoot mags and forums.

I personally think mark should close up and say bugger to the lot of us and move to the states where they appreciate his style of self promotion

Train Driver wrote:

joespeed wrote:why is mbd advertising on 'facebook' when he should be advertising on the scootering websites? this is the better method surely and he can answer to the right people?

Mark/Mb developments are branching out, nobody is ever going to make a fortune from scooters classic or new
so clothing, tour guide help and motorcycle accessories is where i think mark sees the future and good luck to him, so more facebook for Mb and less scoot mags and forums.

I personally think mark should close up and say bugger to the lot of us and move to the states where they appreciate his style of self promotion

To the States? He would have to sell doughnuts aswell then.

soosh wrote:

Train Driver wrote:

joespeed wrote:why is mbd advertising on 'facebook' when he should be advertising on the scootering websites? this is the better method surely and he can answer to the right people?

Mark/Mb developments are branching out, nobody is ever going to make a fortune from scooters classic or new
so clothing, tour guide help and motorcycle accessories is where i think mark sees the future and good luck to him, so more facebook for Mb and less scoot mags and forums.

I personally think mark should close up and say bugger to the lot of us and move to the states where they appreciate his style of self promotion

To the States? He would have to sell doughnuts aswell then.

LOL.
I was thinking of someone in the far East myself-j/k
But, not that I know first hand of course, but if you are really good at what you do and are questioned continually about what you do, it may become a little frustrating and make you want to move onto something else. Many people in busines wil get a business up and runing and then ,move onto another business, keeping the old business going at the same time. They call it captalism over here.
And, by the way it is going over here, soon it will be tortillas and heuvos, not dougnuts

And, by the way it is going over here, soon it will be tortillas and heuvos, not dougnuts

Mmmmmm can i pop over now dirtyhandslopez

So,who did invent this crank in the end?

soosh wrote:So,who did invent this crank in the end?

I think you'll find one of us copyrighted it before they had even thought of it.

Are they fluffy??

Muttley McLadd wrote:

soosh wrote:So,who did invent this crank in the end?

I think you'll find one of us copyrighted it before they had even thought of it.

Are they fluffy??

i'm missing something here or am i green ? fluffy please enlighten me?
regards
joe

soosh wrote:So,who did invent this crank in the end?

I started this post, but it was never my intention to promote Harry Barlow as the inventor of the over-size web crank. Who invented it seems unimportant, it was just until Harry explained why he had chosen to persue this route, I hadn't thought about it. Although others have dallied with oversize crank webs, as far as I am aware, Harry is the first person to sell them in (albeit small) qunatities.

It was just a bit of lateral thinking that made sense to me.