<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"> Max’s Chinese-built British-name bike response made me curious. A quick Google lookup finds in the UK: Pashley, Brompton, Shand and Enigma as bicycle manufacturers, Brooks still making saddles, and a host of component manufacturers. </div><div dir="ltr"> My wife’s bicycle, kept from junior high school years, is a Raleigh, made in Nottingham, girl’s frame, chain fully enclosed, with Sturmey-Archer three-speed. It is possibly the smoothest bike I have ridden. Too bad for me that it is short, saddle-to-handlebars, as it is so comfortable to ride. </div><div dir="ltr">Bob</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 8, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Max Heim via Mgs <<a href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net">mgs@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">Just dumb. It’s like the Chinese bicycle I bought — it bears the brand name of a long-defunct British bicycle manufacturer. No relation, they just bought the rights to the name cheap.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><sigh></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 8, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Richard Lindsay via Mgs <<a href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net" class="">mgs@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Any if you seen this vehicle? No, I have just less than 0% interest in owning it but it is interesting.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobile/China-owned-British-brand-MG-launches-pickup-in-Thailand" class="">https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobile/China-owned-British-brand-MG-launches-pickup-in-Thailand</a><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Rick</div></div>
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