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Concur. I got into a hairy situation once when riding a friend's ti road bike (can't actually remember the builder now). Surrounded by a group of four of five boys who started asking me if my bike was a specialized or a cannondale. The fact it was a nich to framebuilder that they hadn't heard of put them off the fact it was worth 5x the value of the bike they were hoping for.
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I've heard bike thieves scoping out targets and deciding which brand name they know best. Cannondale, Specialized etc will always be more of a target than smaller brands. Spotting a Rolex on the street must be hard, I think you'd have to wait outside a private members club or something to guarantee finding one.