Tell me about your bikes

There are two separate lines of thought above, cheap but usable, and expensive but capricious, and I've also observed two lines of thought when poloplayers build their bikes; with cheap easily replaceable parts, and a secondhand frame as they're usually experimenting, and then the school of specific polo design, thought and a polo-proof components set.

I also think this is more of an evolution than an outright decision or style.

I think there is definitely a growing market for polo technologies; What effect do people think a growing polo-specific market will have on the DIY aspect of the sport?
On the one hand, there will always be a need for cheap parts, and thus the need to bodge.. But as happened with other disciplines, the market could change perceptions of what is necessary for the sport (eg. seeing someone on a fully rigid or a supermarket bike at a mtb trail centre usually conjures - mostly unfounded - notions of that person.

Having spent years mtb'ing, I can appreciate how the consumer market and specialist technologies shapes notions of identity; is this the case with polo, would people say?