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08-24-2004, 06:38 PM
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MBA Coverage on the Honda RNO1
I was just reading Inside the Pros' Bikes in Mountain Bike Action and they featured Greg Minnaar's new rig. The bike looks phat, and the claimed weight is about 40 lbs. The thing that got me boggled was when I read, Infomation is not avalible on estimated value of the bike but Honda's spokesman told MBA that he's seen reports saying $75,000.
That's right SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS! WOW!
I showed my wife the magazine right away to releive any stress she might have when I buy a bike part or two.
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08-24-2004, 06:56 PM
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did someone fire up the flux capacitor?
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08-24-2004, 07:17 PM
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Honda's spokesman told MBA that he's seen reports saying $75,000.
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you could buy the entire honda line of cars with that money
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08-24-2004, 07:37 PM
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I think they were including all the r&d and other associated costs when they quoted that figure. It is easier for honda to make a 1,000 of them than it is just to make a couple.
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08-25-2004, 05:22 PM
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more like millions on R&D
"I think they were including all the r&d and other associated costs"
$75,000 buys you one engineer for a year.
You've got a whole buch of engineers working on this from several companies (honda, kabaya and disc brake manufacturer akebono???).
This is much bigger than push bikes. That gearbox is where an engine is going to fit. Its an R&D project for motorbikes 1st and bicycles 2nd.
Its dual freewheeling rear hub would be crazy in a skatepark (it can roll backwards).
$75K for a one off bike with that many unique parts in the rear hub and gear box and pro MX level kabaya works suspension. An Avalanche MTN series fork is over $3.5K and these are one off. Craigs pointed out before that taking a stock MX fork and modifiing it to fit a MTB would cost more than his MTN forks.
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08-25-2004, 07:32 PM
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$75K could buy my time as an engineer for my salary for a little over 1 month at the overhead when I worked my govt job...
That cost is nothing IMO. Evil spent 12K on the 2013i without even bringing in engineering costs. If I asked the company to pay me even remotely fairly for the work I did on that bike and the G-Boxx in general, we're talking over $100K easy for one frame.
I sh!t you not.
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08-26-2004, 01:22 AM
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I remember reading that Vouilloz's first bike NV01 I think, cost like 1 million French francs or something like that when you take into account all the R&D, somethnig like $150k US.........
but yeah, I'm getting tired of hearing that 75K number being thrown around about the Honda, its not for sale so who cares how much it cost, 75K fro Honda is peanuts.
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08-26-2004, 06:21 AM
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75k to Honda is much less than peanuts...its just NOTHING.
Interesting part is this, at the Snowmass National there was this Honda guy walking around interviewing amature racers to whether or not they would be interested in buying a Honda DH bike.
Looks like they ARE considering getting into the sport.
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08-26-2004, 06:36 AM
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I like the back of this MBA issue where they show some new road rims and say something like "Looks like road bike technology is finally catching up to mountain bike technology." MORONS. 
Oh yeah, that Honda bike looks pretty bad ass.
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08-26-2004, 06:39 AM
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"Its dual freewheeling rear hub would be crazy in a skatepark (it can roll backwards).
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I don't think that is right. I read in dirt that it uses a fixed rear hub, and it freewheels on the gearbox.
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08-26-2004, 08:16 AM
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I just wanna ride it 
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08-26-2004, 10:37 AM
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I don't think that is right. I read in dirt that it uses a fixed rear hub, and it freewheels on the gearbox.
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Yeah, I read the same thing. 
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