This bike better have a really deep cut-out in the anatomically correct saddle and matching full- quill ostrich "tool" bag. Art Link,San Antonio,in everything is bigger Texas
Phil Sieg <triodelover@comcast.net> wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:36:27 -0400 From: Phil Sieg <triodelover@comcast.net> To: Doug Fattic <fatticbicycles@qtm.net> Subject: Re: [CR] can a better KOF frame be bought? CC: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> CC: "brianbaylis@juno.com" <brianbaylis@juno.com>
Doug Fattic wrote:
> People will spend a half million or more on a car, why not $10,000 on a
> bicycle frame? Am I the only one that ponders this?
>
They are not spending half a mil because it's superior transportation. It's no better at getting from A to B than a VW Beetle and likely spends far more time in the shop.
They are spending half a mil because they want something that is clearly recognizable as obscenely expensive to the average schlub standing curbside and screams out that the owner could wipe his a$$ with $100 bills, should he so choose. It's just a variant on the high school locker room "mine's bigger than yours" game. Tom the Dancing Bug sez it better with pictures. ;-)
Just build a bicycle that practically yells out that the owner had more money than God and is better hung to boot and you could charge a hundred grand for it...and have a waiting list, even if it's made from popsicle sticks.
Phil Sieg
Knoxville, Tennessee
USA