more than a year because they look too fast.

And the Paget dealer with the rights to sell the cycles feels treated unfairly, she said on Friday.

Mrs. Denise Trew said $40,000 worth of inventory has collected dust in her Middle Road showroom since last January. And she has a file folder loaded with the names and telephone numbers of interested buyers.

The expensive cycles, made by Aprilia of Italy, are considered high-performance and have moulding around the windscreen and motor intended to cut down wind resistance.

Mrs. Trew, general manager of Eve Cycles Ltd., said the 50-cc Aprilia scooter, called Amico, arrived in 1991 and was approved by the Transport Control Department with little delay.

But she said she has experienced nothing but red tape and delays since she applied to have the 50-cc Red Rose, Europa, and Futura motorcycle models approved.

She said she had attended numerous meetings with TCD officials, who in test drives put 61 miles on one of her new cycles. She appeared three times before the Government's Cycles and Private Cars Advisory Committee, wrote numerous letters, and conducted a survey of interested buyers.

"I'm at my wit's end,'' she said on Friday.

Mrs. Trew was not made much happier when later the same day she received a letter from Transport Minister the Hon. Ralph Marshall which said the Red Rose and Europa applications had finally been approved, but the Futura model turned down.

"It doesn't suit the Bermudian concept,'' Mr. Marshall said of the Futura on Friday. "It looks like a racer, and it doesn't conform to any that we've approved.'' And it was the appearance of all three cycles that delayed their approval, he said. "They fell within the dimensional category and the power category, it's just the aesthetics,'' Mr. Marshall said.

"I agree it took longer than I would normally like these things to take, but it was because it was controversial that it took so long.'' Mr. Marshall flatly rejected Mrs. Trew's suggestion the Italian bike was held up because it threatened the market share of more-established cycle manufacturers in the Bermudian market.

Mrs. Trew said she wants to appeal the Futura model decision.