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Originally Posted by colker
Looks to me like a bubble made of a lot of non sense. There i said it.
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I don't think it's a bubble. Nobody is buying custom with an expectation their bike will increase in value in the future, and the price of most custom frames is at or below that of similar high end mass-produced frames. For every boutique frame I see out on my rides, I see countless S-Works Tarmacs or Trek Madones that are just as expensive as a Kirk or Crumpton.
Economic conditions are good, so certainly people are spending more freely than they were 10 years ago, and likely bikes will suffer in the next economic downturn, but there's no reason to think there is anything inherently wrong with the bike market right now.