Came across this earlier:
wickfordwheels.blogspot.com/2009/11/lamborghini-fo...l
I was looking for more info about slicks for bikes when this caught my eye, its a reveiw of a lamborghini leggenda hybrid. From the post it seems that the lamborghini family retained the right to use the brand name and now make 'lifestyle products'.
So it got me thinking about what other car brands make other products. I've seen Porsche branded products a lot (I think they even made kettles at one point!) but not much from other makers.
So what next? A ferrari ironing board? A Bugatti vacuum cleaner? With car sales struggling at the moment (except for scrappage winners) I wonder if this is something will start to see a lot more.
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Acer are doing a Ferrari computer. How much are we paying for their logo on a bit of electronics, probably assembled in Taiwan using parts made in the Philipines? Not a bargain IMO!
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At £380 the Acer Ferrari laptop costs little more than an equivalent specced one and does look rather nice. certainly not a rip off.
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I suppose for a real die hard Ferrari fan they would be happy to pay a little extra for a branded laptop. Its quite amazing the power that a brand like ferrari or lamborghini has, or even footbal clubs - look at how much they charge for football kit, just because it has the club name on it.
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I bet Farrari won't be making an Acer car.
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At £380 the Acer Ferrari laptop costs little more than an equivalent specced one and does look rather nice. certainly not a rip off.
You are better of with a non Ferrari Intel based Acer, the Ferrari ones are all AMD because of AMD's sponsorship of Ferrari in F1.
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How about this little beauty? tinyurl.com/q8y3rr
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How about this little beauty? tinyurl.com/q8y3rr
Nice, but if I had one of those I would worry about the kids picking it up and using it as a toy car :)
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Volvo do a range of mountain bikes.
I hope they're not made from recycled 7 and 900 series models, they'd weigh a ton.
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Volvo bicycles - shudder, ask any motorcyclist why...
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Sorry mate, I didn't see you.
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Volvo do a range of mountain bikes.
Are they estate bikes with room for some nice antiques in the back?
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I remember a story about a Porsche offroad bicycle being tested in the Australian desert. On one long leg one of the hydraulic disc brakes started dragging in 120 degree temperatures owing to air in the system... hilarious.
I seem to remember that I've recently seen a pram with a (cable operated) disc brake on its single front wheel. I tried it and it worked extremely badly. Could it have been a MacLaren pram I wonder?
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I seem to remember that I've recently seen a pram with a (cable operated) disc brake on its single front wheel. I tried it and it worked extremely badly. Could it have been a MacLaren pram I wonder?
Prams and pushchairs are an essential fashion accessory for yummy mummy types. They must have this years design, blinging wheels, low profile tyres, sport suspension, sporty fog lights and yes, of course the performance of disc brakes is essential when making high speed manourves in lakeside.
I remember being extremely embrassed once when SWMBO insisted on wheeling a buggy around the shop to 'test the handling'...
Disk brakes have totally invaded the cheap and chearfull dual suspension bottom end of the market mountain bikes. A set of V brakes do the job just fine, but disc brakes have street cred...
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All sorts of Jaguar products
Have a Jaguar tennis racket, Jaguar boats, helmets and lots of other stuff
Lotus software, handbags and sports bags, clothing, I think there is or was a camera manufacturer called lotus
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"Disk brakes have totally invaded the cheap and chearfull dual suspension bottom end of the market mountain bikes. A set of V brakes do the job just fine, but disc brakes have street cred... "
Yes. Having paid an extra £100 for a bike with them, only to realise about a year later I had wasted my money I was not pleased. I should have spent the extra on a lighter bike.
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On a European trip last year I got a Ferrari branded Oregon Scientific weather station. dials like rev counter and speedo plus type of weather shown by slick, intermediate or grooved tyres and digital readouts everywhere. All in Ferrari red with badge lol
A superb piece of kit with added motoring interest; bought from a French optician shop in a small town in Northern France, in the shop sale, of course ;)
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On a European trip last year I got a Ferrari branded Oregon Scientific weather station. dials like rev counter and speedo plus type of weather shown by slick intermediate or grooved tyres and digital readouts everywhere. All in Ferrari red with badge lol
I'm not normally one for gimmicky branded stuff, but that does sound kinda cool :)
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Yes. Having paid an extra £100 for a bike with them only to realise about a year later I had wasted my money I was not pleased. I should have spent the extra on a lighter bike.
Yes, but at least you look cool and have street cred :) Give it a few more years and most of the maintstream bikes will all have disc brakes wether you like it or not. A bit like all the mountain bikes are now dual suspension, even though most people dont really need it and all it does is make the bike heavy and slow.
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I'm in favour of disc brakes on bikes. Much easier and cheaper to replace a disc than a wheel rim (or even the whole wheel as rims are unobtainable for many wheels now) which has worn out where the brake blocks bite.
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>>Much easier and cheaper to replace a disc than a wheel rim
???
I have never even managed to keep a bike for so many years that it has required new brake blocks, let alone a new rim!!!
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Believe it or not, bike rims do eventually wear out - although you need to be doing a lot of miles (and a lot of braking) to do so. Maybe a problem for serious cyclists clocking up thousands of miles, but for your average bike owner not really an issue.
I guess with most bikes now having alloy rims this may now be an issue, I've never heard of steel rims wearing out.
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I've never heard of steel rims wearing out.
Before caliper brakes, in the old days with rod-operated pull-up brakes, the chrome would wear off the rim of an old cheap bike and the rim would rust a bit - they were often a bit out of true as well so the brake worked badly, in pulses - and the rim could in fact wear through. Of course that would be the end of a wheel.
Adolescent cycling in the provinces in the early fifties. Can't say I miss it all that much.
Tsk. These whippersnappers today with their disc-braked, shaft-drive, fluid-flywheel-auto super mountain bikes... they don't know they're born.
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Tsk. These whippersnappers today with their disc-braked shaft-drive fluid-flywheel-auto super mountain bikes... they don't know they're born.
Tee hee, I have to admit to some of that nonsense I'm afraid. Don't "do" Lycra though. Too much, too much.
;-)
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Edit above - I have one bike which is quite old and on a "back of fag packet" estimate it must have done about 8000 miles possibly more, mainly off road. It has V brakes and the rims are fine. Either that or they are now only a matter of microns thick but look fine I suppose.
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I'm wearing Jaguar spectacles and Bugatti trousers. Why ? They were heavily discounted by my optician and TKMaxx respectively.
I have also used our Bugatti pizza cutter on occasion.
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