[CR]On Topic Jersies???? How would YOU like an Allesandro woolie Hetchins Jersey?

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

From: "Thomas Rawson" <twrawson@worldnet.att.net>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:08:46 -0800
cc: Peter Naiman <hetchinspete@hotmail.com>
cc: Alex Clarke
cc: Andrew Moore
cc: Len Ingram
cc: Dale Brown
cc: Peter Naiman
Subject: [CR]On Topic Jersies???? How would YOU like an Allesandro woolie Hetchins Jersey?

Dawns on me I may have been messing up.

So Im gonna out myself and a little project thats been in the works, that could probably benefit from some list participation and be of benefit to a few of you list members.

Last spring I inquired of Alex Clark what it would take to get an Alessandro Hetchins wool sweater made. I was told the first requirement was permission/agreement from the owners of Hetchins to use the name. I believe Alex was interested and maybe even excited at the project possibility at the time, as it fit in nicely with his theme of reproduction cycling sweaters and Hetchins was a known and popular old "marque".

I proceeded to work through the "chain of command" such as it exists and was introduced to the proper folks, thanks to len Ingram. Additionally I had the pleasure of discussing this subject while riding along the lanes of Tibberton and Taynton last summer with the current owner's business partner.

Hetchins Pete was off the back somewhere, looking at old bikes or some such...........

An agreement was struck - colors and a design agreed to, but the project has been languishing since early last fall. Im sure Alessandro has had bigger fish to fry and thats partly or maybe mostly the cause for the delay. But Im a bit concerned my inability to answer one important question may be delaying things.

Alex has on at least 2 occasions asked me how many of these I thought he could sell. As a former forecaster for a larger consumer products business, I confess Ive tried to swear off ever having to be caught in that bind again so havent given Alex very good answers.

And so it dawns on me, (guess I said that), wouldnt it be clever if I let you all know of the possibility and give you the chance to speak up and say "Yah, wow cool, I'd buy one of those". So here's your chance.

For planning purposes Id assume we're talking the usual Alessandro pricing - "hundred fortish" or some such. I have no control over that and dont know what the Euro, Lira, etc has done to Alex's pricing. You could respond to me or go to directly to Alex via the Alessandro website thats linked to Dale's website.

For purposes of full disclosure - what I expect to get out of this deal is the ability to buy one (1) Hetchins wool sweater when theyre finally available.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks

Tom Rawson
Oakland, CA