Specialized are at it again!

[Rouleur]

They've forced Neil Pryde bikes to change the name of one of their models. Muppets.

http://www.neilprydebikes.com/news/latest/allez-al...

[TheInternet]

They're going to have to be careful, Nazaré could easily be mistaken for S-Works Tarmac SL4 Pro Race Ultegra Comp Team Carbon.

[Rob_T]

Lots of complaints on the spec Facebook page. Let's see if mike listens

[CooperS]

TheInternet said:

They're going to have to be careful, Nazaré could easily be mistaken for S-Works Tarmac SL4 Pro Race Ultegra Comp Team Carbon.

Agreed!! How will the average man on the street know which ones which..... Let's hope the frames are different colours.

[BadgerBenji]

I think the average man on the street won't be seeing too many £2k framesets whereas the allez is commonly sold. Not defending specialized but just wonder how many people have ever seen a Neil Pryde frame.

[Antony Moxey]

Don't see the big deal to be honest, I'm sure this sort of thing happens all the time in business. I don't think the name change will affect sales one jot so it seems a lot of fuss about nothing.

[B1G GK]

If anything it is giving smaller brands some kind of advertisement to a wider market.

[barker22]

There must be a company that registered the name containing 'specialised' in the title. Can't they sue specialized and make them change their entire name, preferably use the same judge that granted this the go ahead.

[Simond S]

I've actually had a response from Specialized via Facebook. I wrote my thoughts on their page

Simond said:

I think that Specialized have also trademarked the phrase Allez baise vous-meme. Disgusting behaviour yet again from them.

and had this response.

Specialized said:

In July 2013 we reached out to NeilPryde Bikes to figure out a solution on a bike name that was similar to one of ours, Allez, in addition to their use of the trademarks “Epic” and “Innovate or Die”. We were able to agree on a solution in December. We want to thank the NeilPryde crew for working with us on this. We’d also like to congratulate them on their new name, ‘NAZARE’ and we wish them the best success in their efforts.
-Mike Sinyard

[Steve7777]

Unbelievable. I used to have an Allez but wouldn't buy anything else from them now

[Jimbo.]

To be fair, some of the things being said kinda prove Specialized's point:

They're both names applied to bikes.
Specialized weren't named to begin with.
People very quickly realised that the "other" name - and the bike - must be the Specialized Allez.
Two road bikes with similar sounding names?
There you go.