Doug Lloyd wrote: > > Fine, I'm nobody - just a paddler looking for lovely gear in all the wrong > places. You're not alone. I find it amazing the degree to which I spend inordinate amounts of time searching for good gear to no avail. I know the products exist, the technology exists, the materials exist, but the manufacturers and/or retailers can't deliver. And I'm shopping in the largest market in Canada - Toronto and surrounding areas. I'm not just talking about kayaking - this is true of all sports and activities I enjoy. I was talking to a Salomon ski rep a few weeks ago about the Pilot boot- binding system. I told him if they added a adjustment bolt here and attached the other end to this it would make a binding that would adjust for different weight skis and snow conditions. He told me his sister and father, both engineers and non-skiers, told him the same thing when they saw it. I then told him I said the same thing to the rep _last_ year. Do you think that the info gets back to R&D or headquarters? The problem may be that there is no incentive for the reps in the field (who contact the consumers) to feed info back to R&D. And there may just be the Not Invented Here syndrome at work. After all, the R&D guys schmooze with the elite atheletes so why should they respect the opinions of the stiffs who actually _pay_ for the stuff! Grumble, grumble... Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Dec 12 1999 - 19:08:48 PST
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