Interesting Article in the WA Post about the suits

www.washingtonpost.com/.../AR2009082503048.html Some quotes from our own members here :)
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  • If you look at the history of Blue Seventy there first market was triathletes. The Nero evolved from a swim skin for warm water triathlons where the wetsuits were not allowed. So they already had a market, competitive pool swimming became icing on the cake. I can only make an educated guess, however based on there history and if masters keep the suits legal, I believe B70 will still manufacture as between Tri’s and Masters it may still be enough of a market. I agree. If the suits stay legal, they will continue to manufacture them. But if B70 was only able to manufacture textile suits for masters, I'm not sure they would bother (it's not in their "core competence"). I believe that they will continue to manufacture the pointzero3 and maybe the Nero 10K (or whatever it's called) for the triathlete community but I'm not sure it would be worth it for them to design and manufacture a textile suit just for masters swimmers. Hopefully I'm wrong because I would probably continue to support them if they do.
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  • If you look at the history of Blue Seventy there first market was triathletes. The Nero evolved from a swim skin for warm water triathlons where the wetsuits were not allowed. So they already had a market, competitive pool swimming became icing on the cake. I can only make an educated guess, however based on there history and if masters keep the suits legal, I believe B70 will still manufacture as between Tri’s and Masters it may still be enough of a market. I agree. If the suits stay legal, they will continue to manufacture them. But if B70 was only able to manufacture textile suits for masters, I'm not sure they would bother (it's not in their "core competence"). I believe that they will continue to manufacture the pointzero3 and maybe the Nero 10K (or whatever it's called) for the triathlete community but I'm not sure it would be worth it for them to design and manufacture a textile suit just for masters swimmers. Hopefully I'm wrong because I would probably continue to support them if they do.
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