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I am truly fascinated with added costs throughout the custom process. $300 per di2 hole would have never crossed my mind.
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I would encourage everyone to make calls directly to the builders to talk to them about their process and design thoughts.
I spoke to five builders whose complete bike prices ranged from $8500 to $14,500, all with the same components. |
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I trust prototoast's quote/source, but that really seems very high for a builder to charge that, with the tubes flat on the bench. |
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Well that does it. Tonight I'm gonna go out to eat some Italian food and piss all over the chef and manager for daring to charge me $21 for pasta and sauce that only costs $.92 to make.
Good thing I'll be socially distanced when I say this, gives me enough time to duck outta the way when the osso bucco comes flying at my head. |
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Apparently some "gourmet" pizza place was recently busted for in fact selling "modified" grocery store frozen pizza to their desperate Covid takeout customers, while of course charging $$$$. So the $21.00 / $0.92 may have been very true at least in that case. Last edited by Dino Suegiù; 06-15-2020 at 05:10 PM. |
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"It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno!"
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More like, "It's not really Da Giorgio, it's just DiGiorno!"
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Dino, that was Charleston, SC serving artisanal Costco pizza from the 4 pack! had the evidence in a neighboring trash bin. mike
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That likely also involves work beyond just drilling the hole, such as reinforcing, etc.
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The $6900 price for Mosaic RT-1 disc includes the following:
1. Frame and fork painted (two-tone paint) 2. CK Headset 3. internally routed brake and shifting It is not what that $6900 bothers me. It is what it is. For some it might be a great deal if they are into painting how Mosaic paints their frames. What bothers me is that if I want a bare (non-painted) RT-1 (this is the only butted road bike that Mosaic produces), I will still have to pay $6900! Quote:
Last edited by nmrt; 06-15-2020 at 05:24 PM. Reason: grammar |
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"Artisanal"...never trust that word. There are some similarities to some of the pricing language/numbers of some of the builders mentioned here. PS: Ibis was not one of those, in the ti days: fantastic always, and Scott Nicol would have been far funnier and tongue-in-cheek if/when employing words like "artisanal". His eBay ad copy for old Ibis bits he was selling was some of the best ever. |
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I would be slack-jaw stunned if 4 water bottle holes cost $1200 total on a $3000/$5000 frame, though, wouldn't you?
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At the end of the day, it isn't your name on the downtube saying "Hey, I have Mosaic build this to my strange specifications." It just says Mosaic, and their stuff is mostly painted. So I get it. They'll build it for you, but it's a polite way of telling a prospect they're not interested in that kind of work. |
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Lynskey charges $100 for an etap frame which involves no holes!
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