New Frames

I tend to buy a bike frame using practical considerations, things like build quality - aesthetics might also be a consideration as well as weight - but I can't really get into the whole moralistic approach, rejecting a bike frame because of the rights and wrongs of how a frame manufacturer should or shouldn't name their product.

They have some nice Bob Jackson frames in Cavendish at the moment (right next to the Katanas) and to me the katanas are much nicer, the finish and attention to detail is just fantastic.

I buy things according to whether I think their aesthetics, functionality, build quality and brand integrity match their price point.

I think the k...atana is overpriced for a bike that is a bit gaudy and which nobody has ever heard of before.

If the price were more a par with a Bob Jackson (edit to add - or a Mercian) it might get a look-in.

I also think that people are generally far too easily manipulated by advertising, and the faux-Nippon styling of this bike is, to me, more than a bit disingenuous. I really don't get what was wrong with being Polish.

But hey, if you like your Marks-and-Sparks doesn't-really-taste-like-sushi that's fine by me.

(Another edit to add - but you're curiously comfortable with getting into the rights and wrongs of other people's individual belief systems. Who'd have thunk it?)