ORIGINAL: cwgoff

All,

I just got off of the phone with Mike Gibbs at Utah Sport Cycle. He is the guy at USC that will be designing the skid plate for our bike [thanks to tefer (Dave T) for donating his bike for the design work]. Mike confirmed that Dave dropped his bike of today, so the plates should be ready in about a week.

I was able to express our enthusiasm at having a USC plate designed for our bike. I also got a plug in for the CRD wrap-around design that we all like. He assured me that the design would be a wrap-around design, and he was interested in any information that I could supply for the CRD unit. I sent him the link to the thread where MavAus posted the pics of the CRD plate that the has on his bike. I told Mike that most folks here consider the CRD as the plate of choice except for price and availability. I told him that all plates are judged against the CRD as the ideal, and that his plate would be similarly judged.

With all of that said, I also asked about the group buy opportunity. He was very receptive to that. He says that USC understands the value of these forums to get the word out about their products. He says that they could easily give us a 15% group buy discount if we can get as few as 10 people commited to buy the new plate. He also said that they would handle it as a discount code emailed to the people on this forum that want to receive it. He assured me that USC would use the email address to send the code and then trash the email address.

So here's the deal. If you are interested in being on the group buy list, please send me a PM with your email address. I will consolidate the addresses into a single email to Mike, and he will send the discount code to you. I don't know his expectations about passing the code along to others. When I email him the list, I will ask him to include guidance about that in his email to you. Also, rest assured that I won't do anything with the email address other than passing them to Mike.

I hope this is agreeable to everyone. If someone knows of a better way to handle getting the code distributed, please suggest it.

Thanks again to tefer for getting this started with USC.

ORIGINAL: YYY.GUY

Thanks to tefer and cwgoff for spearheading the group buy ... hopefully this will be the first of many "economies of scale" opportunities for forum members!!!

(Chris: Just sent you a PM with my e-mail address.)

Mike

ORIGINAL: tefer

cwgoff,
you're quick and you seem to have the ball rolling.I do hope they give everyone a good deal.
I hurried after work and trailered the bike to SLC,
went home and crashed before getting on line.
Dave