Foffa Bikes

And incidentally if any of you have ever had the balls to try and run your own business you'll know that making mistakes, especially in the early years, goes with the territory

The issue has never been the fact of mistakes, which as you say are common enough in start-ups, nor even the magnitude of the mistakes. The problem his detractors have always had with Foffa is the class of error. If the product had merely been tasteless or overpriced, there might have been piss taking but not the venom which we have seen. The vilification of Foffa stems from the fact that he has put his name to bikes which nobody who was steeped in cycling would touch with a ten foot pole. While the current product seems at least to be assembled from worthy, albeit low-end, components, it was certainly not the case in the beginning, and community minded as we are we properly took the view that "Friends wouldn't let friends ride a Foffa"