>>1865030>>1865251You don't understand luxury products.
You're paying those brats to make the frame correctly. The welds are supposed to look good, the workers are supposed to take pride in their work, the end result is supposed to define a standard or appreciation of esthetics, even in terms of the societal impact. They buy it with the understanding that it's a bargain to buy that particular frame, because you're supporting the process and that community. If they ground the welds and curved the fork and had those idiotic fork stays, it'd be fucking stupid. I think you know that aesthetically it's more cluttered and not minimal, if not you need to spend more time on
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>spends thousands of dollars extra on a bikeNobody wealthy really thinks about it like this. Spend extra compared to what? If you spent 10 hours reading shitposts on /n/ studying the history and connotations of bar end shifters, you pretty much just cost yourself the entire value of that frame. The aesthetic minimalism and build quality follows a certain appreciation of the form, in other words it's not just their bike, it's the idea of the bike which transcends that factory, and btw you all ride the 90s mtb dick harder than anybody.
