Chapter 2 Meeting the Team

DOI: 10.4324/9781003286066-2

John Perry had been with Oxton Bikes for two weeks during which he had spent most of his time shadowing senior managers. While this had been both very useful and enlightening, he was glad that it was time for him to do some real work. The two things that struck him most about bicycle design, development and manufacture compared to his experience in Blade was firstly that none of the components that made up an Oxton bicycle were fabricated by Oxton and so to speak of Oxton as a bicycle manufacturer was to his mind a misnomer. In making a mental comparison between Oxton and Blade, John had seen that while Oxton did a lot of design work on the frame of the higher-end bikes and were involved ...

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