Peter: Excellent point of view. I expressed my points to Peter offline, mostly in that if someone wanted a set of rollers in wood, at a competitive price point to others of equel quality on the market, there needs to be a reason to buy these, or a distict advantage over the competitors. Just wondering if wooden rollers would be more comfortable, less stiff than riding on metal or plastic rollers. Peter expressed that he has a pair of wooden rollers that he uses two to three times a week, that are about 40 years old and they are still functioning well.
I would think if these rollers are being produced by hand in a local shop by someone Peter knows the quality is going to be very high. If the price is right, I'll be purchasing a set. But I'm a bit old fashioned and the idea of riding on wood just feels better than riding on rollers of alloy or plastic, but then againmost of my cooking utinsils are wood.
As a former operations manager for a small group of retail stores selling treadmills, most folks buy exercise machines and after an initial use, they usually becomes fixed sculptures in the playroom, garage or attic. I'm not sure if avid cyclist vary much from that. Unfortunately my wife has a Tony Little Gazelle sitting in our basement collecting dust. With the amount of use it gets, it will be used by generations to come, or more likely land up in a landfill someday.
Peter Naiman
Shorewood, WI
> Peter
>
> I suspect this is the sort of thing that everyone
> thinks would be a really
> neat thing to have. But when it came time to pony
> up the money to actually
> pay for something they had previously expressed
> interest in, they would
> reconsider.
>
> The market for rollers is less than it used to be,
> IMO. First choice is to
> be on the road of course. But now there are all
> these new training
> 'systems' - complete with video, varying resistance
> to simulate TDF road
> stages, simulated competitors, etc. Along with the
> various exercise
> machines, bike trainers, emphasis on cross training,
> and everything else; I
> fear the number of folks willing to pay a premium
> price for a set of really
> neat lovely wooden rollers will be quite limited.
>
> And of course you have not even quoted a price yet!
> Just my opinion.
>
> Ken Sanford
> Kensington, MD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Koskinen" <peter@prkbikes.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:04 AM
> Subject: RE: [CR]Wood Rollers
>
>
> >I would like to hear from some of the lurkers in
> the shadows that are on
> > this list about building these? Do they think that
> there may be a demand
> > for
> > something such as this etc.
> >
> > Peter Koskinen
> > Chapel Hill, NC
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> > [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On
> Behalf Of Peter
> > Koskinen
> > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 2:45 PM
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: [CR]Wood Rollers
> >
> > List,
> >
> > I have a friend who is thinking about making some
> wood rollers to sell.
> > Now
> > I know that New England Yankee used to build them
> in the 60's but I
> > haven't
> > seen any since. Does anybody have an opinion on
> these and if the response
> > is
> > favorable, should they be fairly easy to sell?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Peter Koskinen
> > Chapel Hill,NC
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