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  • He wants to make a nice bike theft resistant...

    Maybe, but he doesn't actually say that, everyone's just inferred it. My inference was that he wanted to mask the components to keep them nice and shiny so that the resale value was higher. For example, you'll get a better price for a bike if the paintwork's not chipped.

    This does beg the question, why buy a bike you plan to sell? Seems odd.

    Sometimes it's cheaper to buy a nice item and recoup a high percentage of the cost through a high resale value than it is to buy a crappy item (or several, if they won't last as long and so have to be replaced) and not be able to recoup anything, since it's worth basically nothing 2nd hand. I saw some calculations once which showed that it's ultimately cheaper to buy a BMW for about £25,000 than it is to buy a fairly anonymous Japanese saloon for about £15,000.

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