I hear you. Brand definitely plays a role in premium pricing. I bought a frameset years ago from a respected builder for $$$$ that had all kinds of niggling issues. Bought from another respected US builder for 30% the cost of the other one and had a fantastic experience and end product. So it’s certainly possible to make (and buy) a great product for less. But maybe it gets to what you said about a small, individual builder being able to drive some economies, and potentially work out of a shop that’s small & owned outright, for example.
Quote:
Originally Posted by oldguy00
You may very well be right.......but I remember a while back when steel builders were getting up into the 5k+ range, you could still get a custom steel frameset from Marinoni in Montreal for 1500 Cad. Now not saying Marinoni's paint job was the same as Joe Bell, but otherwise they were a business in a building, custom building frames with the same columbus tubesets....
|