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- From: cantrell@seqp4.sequoia.com (Paul Cantrell)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: FOR SALES ha-ha-ha! CYCLES Trade mark DNEPR from USSR
- Message-ID: <1680@seqp4.sequoia.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 16:56:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.022338.35992@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Organization: Sequoia Computer Systems
- Lines: 33
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- PETER VOROBIEFF writes:
- Michael Robinson writes:
- > >In article <DLK42-tffq@adis.msk.su> adis@adis.msk.su writes:
- > >: FEATURES: REABILITY AND ENDURANCE. MOTORCYCLES ARE DESIGNED FOR THE
- > >: HEAVIEST-DUTY OPERATING CONDITIONS (THEY WERE USED IN THE
- > >: SOVIET ARMY NOT ACCIDENTALLY).
- > >Now, you really can buy the Red Army's finest sidecar on Usenet.
- > You'd better not - it sucks. I had one in Russia - design and engine have
- > not changed much since 1944 (the prototype was a 1944 military-issue BMW) -
- > the bike's a two-cylinder four-stroke opposite with 500 cubic centimetres
- > and only (!) 30hp, heavy, wobbly and ugly like a senile drunk's head.
- > Of course, in winter it doesn't start unless you have a warm garage,
- > its battery always leaks and its gearbox... Ok, never mind.
-
- Well, if they can just figure out the correct marketing hype to convince
- people that the DNEPR has "mystique", they should have the best selling
- bike around - after all, it has all the other qualities of a Harley:
- large(ish) displacement, low horsepower, heavy, wobbly, and ugly like a
- senile drunk's head! B^)
-
- PRICES: MORE THEN MODERATE FOR MOTORCYCLES OF THIS CLASS
- DNEPR-11: 1695 $
- DNEPR-16: 1895 $
-
- Of course, they've got to raise the price by an order of magnitude to truly
- be competetive with Harley. But that's about all they have to do... :-)
-
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