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#22 ·
they gave one of these away at the local Wendy's....

as a part of the grand opening.
It was a unique bike, it came with a non-Manitou reverse arch shock, complete with the v-brake installed on the back side of the shock. :thumbsup:
 
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mbmb65 said:
Not the case in the South. Here, it's a Pepsi product. So there.
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You guys are both wrong. DP is its own company, owned by only themselves, and they contract whoever to do the canning/bottle-ing (bottling just looks wrong??) for them.

BTW, as much as I'm a huge fan of DP, that's like a $99 walmart bike in a DP pain job.

I wouldn't pay anything for it.

BM
 
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JonathanGennick said:
Hey, that's actually some interesting info that you dug up on Wikipedia. Thanks for that.

I remember when Dr. Pepper was its own company. My first ever stock-market trade was to buy three (I believe it was three) call option contracts for Dr. Pepper. I just about doubled my money when I sold. It was a good trade. That was back in high-school. I was a senior. My next few option trades lost money though, and in a few months I was totally wiped out. So I lost everything, but "everything" wasn't really much, and it's not like I was supporting myself at the time. I learned a lot, and those few months of trading options represent the most fun I've ever had while losing money.

Good memories.
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Mtbiking represents the most fun I've ever had losing money.
 
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mbmb65 said:
Well I guess It does matter. In the South, it is distributed by Pepsi co. Which makes it a Pepsi product in the south.
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I'm really not sure why the crap it matters, but... I was born and raised an hour from Atlanta Georgia, birthplace of Coke, home of the world of Coke, home of the Coke world headquarters... (I think you get the picture).

My schools of course had deals to only sell coke; there was definitely Dr. Pepper to be had at times! Dr. Pepper is, as was stated, it's own company and is distributed by both Coke and Pepsi. It is neither Coke or Pepsi and never was.

I consider it a sin against my upbringing to knowingly drink Pepsi. I drink Dr. Pepper on occasion (about as often as I drink Coca-Cola). Don't make this an "in the South" battle; that's just ridiculous. You were wrong, move on.

Coke or Pepsi; the bike shaped object is walmart crap.
 
#31 ·
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Not because you want to resell it for profit--that's capitalism, baby! Free market and all that fine stuff. It's stupid because the Diet Dr. Pepper version would obviously weigh a lot less.
 
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Timeless said:
you are incorret it is a coke product. Reason I know this is A) my campus has a contract only to sell Coca cola products on it and you can by Dr Pepper here.
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Incorrect again! :D

It's owned by the Dr. Pepper and Snapple group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper_Snapple_Group

It's never been owned by Coke or Pepsi. (My dad worked for them, I know way too damn much about this company.) It has distribution deals with Coke and Pepsi in different places.
 
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I'm coming back eight years later to say... NO REGRETS.

When my dad worked there, we got SO much Dr. Pepper swag. You'd think they gave us soda? NO! We got pencils, notepads, 3-hole binders, glasses, caps, sweatbands, keychains... even full-on polyester sweatpants and jackets (complete with Adidas-like pinstriping down the legs and sleeves). Even a clock with the 10, 2, and 4 blown up huge to go with their ad campaign talking about the ideal times to drink Dr. Pepper.

We had so much maroon-and-white CRAP floating around my house for so long. To this day, I own nothing in maroon.

Thank you @bfc7675cf, for allowing me to yet again share my trauma to an unwilling audience. I salute you!

PS - Ya wanna know how deep I was? Remember the 'Pied Pepper' commercials, starring the actor who was the lead in American Werewolf in London? Yeah, that guy? My dad went for drinks with him once because he was in marketing, and never stopped name-dropping about it on bridge night.

 
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