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@Jimmy_Fingers
Personnally I'd prefer my money to go toward a small British bike company that simply line the pockets of huge American ones like Specialized and Giant. And yes the 'freestyler' tag doesn't mean much, and yes they probably are trying to cash in on fashion but what about the numerous Langster special editions? What about the fact bike companies change a couple of parts, tweak the Geometry, re-paint it and call it an '09 or '10 bike, usually in the middle of the year. It's marketing, its creating points of difference. What were Charge going to do, leave the Plug blue with bullhorns and let sales stagnate? No, they found themselves with a product that was selling, and issued other versions of it, with different colours and different bars. Hardly crime of the century.
I've had Oranges, DMRs, Planet Xs and Charges, and when it comes to the next build I'll buy British again, for my planned fixed from a British frame-builder in this case