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do you have stock in this ride str8 company? why you are defending a product that you have little or no experience with. I know I would be real angry if I put one on my bike and something busted due to this product. I would also be pissed at anyone who made recommendations without experience.
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Nope, no stock in the company O'Fender. But I'm guessing you assumed as much before asking the question simply based on all the prior discussions in the thread. Especially relative most of the insignifcant accusations we playfully throw at one another around here that kind of conflict is a pretty serious accusation to make though. It does, after all, imply disinterest in the money my friends and others here have spent and a disinterest in their personal safety.
So no stock or other fiduciary interest in the company. As for having an interest, however, you bet your ass. My ass is going to be riding on this product. That makes me very interested.
If you'll read back I never discounted the fact of your buddy's failure. I did try to understand it. Your relating your buddy's incident happening as it has concurrent with an entire group's decision to buy the Ride Str8 has made it important to try to find out as much as we can. Since I was wrangling the group purchase for everyone, and therefore felt some sense of responsiblity for them spending the money, I did go out and look over user groups and other web sites (lots of them) looking for anecdotal or other supporting history to the incident you shared.
That's just covering our butts. Nothing more and nothing less; and certainly nothing to do with you; or your buddy's unfortunate failure.
I also asked someone a whole lot smarter than I am to consider it. Again, just doing what we can to cover our butts. If you'll remember back at the beginning of this thread my personal plan was to buy the True Track. Solely a price based decision as they both seemed satisfactory to the job they purported to do.
The majority of others, however, seemed more interested in the Ride Str8. After speaking with people at both companies Ride Str8 offered us a much more substantial group discount. Enough, in fact, that it had become the lesser expensive product. So since it was the majority's initial interest and was now cheaper that's where the buy happened.
If someone had an important issue to bring up about either one it would have been nicer to have it before the decision had been made. We didnt though. It would not have made one bit of difference, however, to the decision to check things out.
If we'd bought either one, and then in the middle of the purchasing process someone voiced a serious issue, I would have been irresponsible if I'd not done something to research that issue. So as the history of this thread shows we took your issue responsibly and did not simply dismiss it. We contacted the manufacturer and got a generally forthcoming response. We (two of us working independently) researched quite a few hours on the net looking for supporting evidence or corrolary incidents. We found none. None. And I asked a really bright guy to check the math.
All that sir, was just to verify information and to respond responsibly to what you'd told us. No one dismissed your story. If it had not been taken seriously none of that work would have been done.
The fact that we did that work in no way implies that I nor anyone else has an interest in one company or the other. The only interest is in our butts setting on top of any one product. To protect that particular I will certainly do a little homework.
So I have no interest in the one company. No one ever dismissively or condescendingly asked if any interest is being served for the other company by continually casting doubt on the product that was in fact purchased. It's a shame that level of respect wasn't shared here.
The manufacturer has written us that no one has ever told him of such a failure. We got it in writing so that it could be contradicted if your buddy had done so. We asked for a photo that might then be sent to the manufacturer. Nothing was provided. So far all we've got is the incidental history of one failure that happened to occur about the same time a Ride Str8 was installed.
We don't doubt that it happened. We, of course, researched the issue. And we seem to be generally comfortable with our choice. Might we be wrong later? Sure; absolutely. Based on what we've learned I don't expect it. But don't assume ill motives or apparent ignorance on mine or any other buyer's part just because they did homework based on your story and didn't find support enough to change our minds.
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