Step Bikes - In charge?

RideOnTime

http://stepbike.co.uk/

They say they are in charge of the UK market. What? Not a good advert but interesting bikes.

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MountainMonster

Quite interesting bikes, would be willing to give it a go sometime! Never seen anything like it!

desweller

Al it needs is a saddle for those long journeys and it'd be perfect.

deptfordmarmoset

DesWeller wrote:

Al it needs is a saddle for those long journeys and it'd be perfect.

Judging by the quality of the website, it's quite possible that they left those off by mistake.

redddraggon

we are supplyers and distributers of this patented bikes.we are incharge of the uk market. Any one producing or selling replicates will be procecuted.

:roll:

Ben6899

They're so good; the lady on the front page is pushing hers.

freehub

Is it a scam? All the spelling err0rs and broken links makes it seem so.

t.m.h.n.e.t

They can't spell colour either

Kerguelen

Well, I'm no good at this techie stuff, but the sheer hilarity of the site prompted me to sign up and offer a few observations:

1. It has Netcraft's maximum 'red' risk rating and it not popular enough to have a ranking, unlike BR's quite respectable 6,000.

2. It's been around for 2 years and the domain registration will be expiring soon:

HAL:~ kerguelen$ whois stepbike.co.uk

Domain name:
stepbike.co.uk

Registrant:
apris. ltd

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
56 newcourt house
pott street
london
E2 0EG
United Kingdom

Registrar:
Webfusion Ltd t/a 123-reg [Tag = 123-REG]
URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 18-Aug-2009
Renewal date: 18-Aug-2011
Last updated: 20-Aug-2009

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns25.domaincontrol.com
ns26.domaincontrol.com

WHOIS lookup made at 14:54:30 07-Aug-2011

This is publicly available information btw, I am not disclosing anything confidential here.

3. There appear to be lots of pieces of 'placeholder' text all over the front page, oddly enough telling one how to set up images or something:

The Black & White command lets you convert a color image to grayscale while maintaining full control over how individual colors are converted. You can also tint the

workspace is arranged to help you focus on creating and editing images. The workspace includes menus and a editing

4. The copyright notice is 2009 - should be 2011 to be enforceable, strictly speaking.

5. we are supplyers and distributers of this patented bikes.we are incharge of the uk market. Any one producing or selling replicates will be procecuted.

I will not comment on the spelling and grammatical errors, others have done so.

I will merely comment that Section 60 of the Patents Act 1977 provides a statutory defence:

where an act is done privately and for purposes which are not commercial, it does not amount to an infringement.

ref. http://www.gillhams.com/articles/212.cfm

So you could make a 'replicate' (as they put it), but if this is for your own use and not for profit, nowt they can do about it.

Anyway, sorry, a bit of a diversion there.

Does anyone have any 'vedio' to upload to the site? I would, only the link is broken.

6) Also, the site looks weird as it relies heavily on JavaScript and I have it disabled. And I'm not enabling JavaScript for that domain, thanks very much. )