On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 08:52 -0600, Bruce Herbitter wrote: > Materials, labor and transportation costs plus the profit margin added > equals the price you pay. Rivs like the Romulus were killer deals but > for one reason or another, could not be maintained. Rivs have good > paint jobs and you could shave money there by doing something skimpy. > Rivs use good quality tubing, and again you could skimp there. Riv > could buy in mega volumes which would save per unit costs. As it > happens, it wouldn't reflect the Riv ethos with micro thin paint or > clunky tubes or robo-welded joints. The limited market for this type > of bike (lugged steel, built for comfort and usefulness) prevents > Schwinn-like mass production so no savings there.
The real shame is that nobody seems able to deal with the huge price penalty we pay for componentry when building up such frames. You could almost come out a head by buying a complete LHT, stripping off the components and throwing the frame away, and that's just plain wrong. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
