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plateaucal wrote:Yah, they were epic until the accountants took over.

Let’s not throw the accountants under the bus. Usually it is the marketing and engineering teams that specify changes. Customer resistance to the retail price for improvements dictate compromise.
Keith

zed wrote:Let’s not throw the accountants under the bus.

... says the Accountant


Sorry Keith, jus teasin....

Yup...just a poor little accountant making the lives of a few people a bit richer, or a bit more humorous.

Like the time a guy had to strip a red wheel that was recently painted

zed wrote:

plateaucal wrote:Yah, they were epic until the accountants took over.

Let’s not throw the accountants under the bus. Usually it is the marketing and engineering teams that specify changes. Customer resistance to the retail price for improvements dictate compromise.
Keith

Bbbbbut I am an engineer. I am now hurt beyond measure. Okay I am done crying now. I would argue that these changes were commensurate with the evolution in technology and were sensible. Things like alternators...how dare they. But, this is why the old stuff is always more cool.

zed wrote: Like the time a guy had to strip a red wheel that was recently painted

Hey, I know that guy.... He's crazy.

At least the red wheel showed up in a box on his doorstep... That silly fool drove all the way to Devore California and back, to pick up the other 4 wheels to go along with the red one...

He's nuts