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I work in tooling engineering for a non-disclosed swedish automotive company. If Benno actually paid over $10k for tooling on just a kickstand that sells for only £120 . They need to re-evaluate their bussiness model.
More likeley they just load an other program into their welding bot, make some adjustments on the jig and crap out kickstands that day.
Or they bought a fancy welding cobot on the kickstand project budget.
LeMesjeu-
It’s a pretty good point. I don’t think I dispute a $10k figure for tooling and jigs (because those sorts of costs mount up pretty quickly) but you do have to question how many of these they’ll ever sell. It’s a pretty limited market.
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Bike industry is small fry compared to many others that you would think about comparing (automotive/aerospace/tech, where they are similarities in the bringing together of parts and assemblies from dozens of different mftr in different parts of the world, fine when you are in the 100k+ units per annum, but most bike companies don't make that many of any SKU, they might make 100k+ per annum of all bikes, but likely only 4k medium in blue, 4k medium in black, 3k large in blue etc), then cargo bikes are a niche of that. SO any additional tooling/mad add ons required to make their existing machinary make your item that the mftr has, is chargeable (much like if you add any optional extra's onto a PCP/lease car, you pay for it upfront).
Thankfully most cargo companies don't change for a few years at a time, so their parts are forwards and backwards compatible for 10+ model years of bike.
Bullitt + Benno both have boss level double stands (shame the larger benno boost doesn't come with the double as standard though), Urban Arrow's stand is also pretty damn solid not heard many complaints on those either, compared to Tern (I like their bikes but their stands are utter garbage) who send out GSD with a side stand that you would commonly see on a £5-600 ridgeback hybrid, then suggest the double which is approx £100 RRP and WILL seize up within 1 month of winter use unless you regularly grease it, and the feet will fall off another month later and not sure they are available as a separate part.
Long story short, £125 rrp for the Benno stand is fair. Loving the Remi Demi BTW, anyone who hasn't seen one, suggest going and trying one, everyone here thats tried one has put down a deposit
Jonny69
BrickMan
It cost Benno over $10,000 to have the tooling made for that stand we were told. It's a great stand, but yeah, the high price isn't unusual for Benno accessories - the basket on my eJoy was $220 retail (but it has a capacity of 16kg)