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Let's not kid ourselves that Sachs frames are good value either.
I wonder how much more a set of Pego-Richie tubes and all the Sachs dropputs/fork crowns and frame parts cost over a regular off the shelf Columbus/Reynolds set.
Sanddancer-
http://www.richardsachs.com/site/rs-framebuilding-material/
Hard to find anything that shows the cost of his tubing, but full lugset is about $200usd when you add the bits up, so not cheap, but not insaine. Then maybe $600-800usd for the tubeset as a total thumb in the air guess.
I was being a bit facicious. He has a "cool" brand but equally he makes beautiful frames and if you look at the effort and style in his OTP lugsets you can see the ATD. Ultimately there is only one of him so he can charge pretty much what he wants, so why not charge enough to give himself a decent standard of living.
hugo7
Maybe $4,000 is to the owners what £300 is to you?
Let's not kid ourselves that Sachs frames are good value either. You buy them because of this is how you picture them being built:
and since Jobs left you've had a whole in your heart for products made by men in rollnecks.