--- Angel Garcia <veronaman@gmail.com> wrote:
> These prices are commanded because the best
> marketing is what the pros ride
> .
> Of course, 99% of the cycling population does not
> need what a pro needs but
> that's never stopped anyone from wanting what the
> pros ride. It's just the
> way it is.
>
> BTW, are there any other KOF builders other than
> Richard Sachs that sponsor
> s
> a pro (I think it's a pro) team?
>
> Angel Garcia
> Verona (Verona), Italy
>
>
>
>
> > What amaes me is how a Ti bike with a carbon
> back
> > end sells for $8000.00 for the frame...there isn't
> 250
> > plus hours in it...but awfully good marketing!
> >
> > Paul Brown
> > Cycle Dynamics
> > Santa Rosa, CA
> > 707 322-7208
In the mid-nineties I helped out Rebecca Twigg over the span of a couple days and fell in love with her and out of love with her several months later.(Or did it take a couple years to forget her? I forget.) She had what was then summed up as a $10,000 all-titanium pursuit frame. I replaced the ti fork with a steel one. She chose the offset based on my fitting her Passoni with an adjustable-rake fork made by Bill Holland; whereby I allowed her to ride around the San Diego Velodrome with the different rake settings. Let me tell you guys something: riding around with her that day tapped enough testosterone in me to get her to comment that I was pulling her "pretty fast." Ha! Try keeping up with me now -- now that I'm 10 years older and 20 years younger. Joe Starck Madison, WI USA (Verona: home of Juliet's balcony)
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