“Fat Bottom Girls you make the rocking world go round . . . get on your bikes and ride” -                                                                                                                        Queen

In Reveries today Tim Manners reported:

M.I.T. researchers have re-invented a bicycle wheel “that captures kinetic energy

released when a rider brakes and saves it for when the rider needs a boost,” reports

Sindya N. Bhanoo in the New York Times (12/15/09). The Copenhagen Wheel, consists

of “a sleek red hub” that “can be retrofitted to any bike’s rear wheel.”

It employs “the same technology used by hybrid cars … to harvest otherwise wasted energy when a cyclist brakes or speeds

down a hill.  With that energy, it charges up a battery inside the wheel’s hub.”  The device “includes sensors that track air quality,

a meter that logs miles and a GPS unit to track routes.   All that data can be sent via Bluetooth to a rider’s smart

phone and shared with others.”

It all sounds very cool, but I think it misses the mark.

The basic bike is so hard to beat.

The latest thing now are the simple, fixed-gear bikes, so simple and light you can throw them over your shoulder.

Does anyone remember Schwinn? 

Banana Seat, Monkey Handle Bars and

playing cards in the spokes . . .

. . . Now can you take today’s economic bike truth and pedal your way through your business pricing model?

Let’s look at your price structure:

First is your pricing listed and available?

Is your pricing model simple?

Do your offer add-on values or just “pile-ons?”

Do you have a different charge for age, foundation type, location?

Does your client need a calculator to multiply the charge per sq foot?

Do they need a Abacus when looking over your invoice?

People “Simply” want the best.

And where price is concerned

“Simple” is Simply Better!                  

Maverick Rules!

Your Success is Our Success!

P.S.  If you did not grow up a Queen fan, you simply missed some of

the best music the 70′s and the 80′s had to offer and my apologies to

all the “small bottom girls.”