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Hey Rob!
Thankfully, we (August Bicycles), were paid in full, as we are so careful to not let anything leave the workshop until it has been paid for. You just have to be like that, as a small set up! It could have crippled us to not get paid for them.The prices of the bikes themselves made a few people's eyes water, but these were heavily inflated by Vulpine, against our advice, and now that everything has come out, we simply don't feel as though we can promote the builds on our website, which is such a shame, as they really were beautiful.
A good friend of ours, who we put forward for some work with Vulpine, hasn't and probably won't get paid, which makes us feel awful and this whole thing has really tarnished what seemed like a terrific chance to build some lovely bikes. We must be pretty blinkered to have not known something was brewing! The bikes themselves have actually been seized now, as assets, so Gavin's efforts were pretty much all for nothing now, which makes me so sad.
But hey, there might be a couple of sweet bikes being auctioned off soon, if anyone wants to get a bargain! Haha.
Amy (Mrs. August)
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I just hope that Gav at August Bicycles got paid for those two bikes he built for Nick and his wife as hugely indulgent gifts for themselves. I see they have removed them from the Vulpine website, so guessing they wont be giving them up as assets of the company.
Seems like this Nick fella has fucked over a lot of people in the indusrty with all this crowdfunding when the company was obviously on its way under. I really hope his actions dont leave any other small business in finacial trouble themsleves, as that would be a real tragedy, wheras Vulpine dissapearing off the map is no real loss to the UK cycling industry IMHO.