Bike porn

You brought op the £200 point, not me. If you want to keep spending top dolla on hyped up overrated parts with Italian names on them and bolt them to an expensive frame, only to end up with a finished product that will be less visually appealing than the carbon bike and not offer noticably better ride characteristics unless you're a pro rider, be my guest.

The builder has done a good job (I'd question the wheel depth, but thats me). I just dont get whats porn about it. Plain carbon, roadie builds are a dime a dozen. To achieve porn status for such a unspecial bike type requires some chioce combinations of parts, and unfortunately those pats are often defined by their cost.

Ther are plenty of seriously cool rat bikes and such on here, worth very few £s (I'm a big fan of Haj's frankenbike posts). But they have whole different originality working for them.