More money than sense...

[MartyBenji]

There's not even any mudguards

 

[screenman]

If anyone thinks this bike would be bought to ride then I imagine they may not be getting the point.

 

[Cycleops]

If anyone thinks this bike would be bought to ride then I imagine they may not be getting the point.

True, I can imagine it being given as a gift at a corporate event to well healed perhaps horsy customers.

 

[screenman]

True, I can imagine it being given as a gift at a corporate event to well healed perhaps horsy customers.

Or hung on a wall.

 

[gavroche]

Would you spend a couple of hour’s earnings on a bike you really like? If you’re into bikes many would.

Couple of hours earnings? How much an hour do you get?

 

[mustang1]

If it’s worth the money to those that can afford it, why not? What’s the point in earning money and paying taxes if you can’t spend it? Sticking it in an offshore savings account helps nobody. Spending it puts it back into the economy.

But I'm not sure what is special about this bike? It comes with that funny thing next to the chainrings. There has to be some thing, anything, that this bike has that another doesn't .Perhaps it has no-questions-asked theft insurance included in the price, or they will deliver the bike to your door and give you a bike fitting arrive in your house, or, well, just something.

But I don't see anything on the bike, or comes with the bike.

If there are two absolutely identical bikes, same material, same frame, same components, everything identical, but one has Aston Martin written on it and someone wants to pay £5k (or whatever) more for it, then at least that is something.

Bit on that orange bike, I don't see what features it has to justify the 13k tag. Other than that, I agree with what you say (if you have money then spend it on what you like etc).

Edit: aha, I take that back! Reading further down the thread, I see it has a fashion house brand name (I've not actually heard of Hermes but it does sound like a disease). There we go.

 

[Markymark]

Couple of hours earnings? How much an hour do you get?

A lot less than that. But there's plenty that do....and that's who the bike is marketed at.

 

[Markymark]

But I'm not sure what is special about this bike? It comes with that funny thing next to the chainrings. There has to be some thing, anything, that this bike has that another doesn't .Perhaps it has no-questions-asked theft insurance included in the price, or they will deliver the bike to your door and give you a bike fitting arrive in your house, or, well, just something.

But I don't see anything on the bike, or comes with the bike.

If there are two absolutely identical bikes, same material, same frame, same components, everything identical, but one has Aston Martin written on it and someone wants to pay £5k (or whatever) more for it, then at least that is something.

Bit on that orange bike, I don't see what features it has to justify the 13k tag. Other than that, I agree with what you say (if you have money then spend it on what you like etc).

Edit: aha, I take that back! Reading further down the thread, I see it has a fashion house brand name (I've not actually heard of Hermes but it does sound like a disease). There we go.

Maybe it's just pretty. Go see how much a designer t-shirt costs against something in M&S. Probably same quality, same material, same factory even. Then compare the prices. Then tell me nobody buys designer clothes.

 

[mustang1]

Maybe it's just pretty. Go see how much a designer t-shirt costs against something in M&S. Probably same quality, same material, same factory even. Then compare the prices. Then tell me nobody buys designer clothes.

What if the two t-shirts are identical? But one has a brand name on it?

 

[nickyboy]

The price you pay for any premium branded good bears little relation to the cost of manufacture. You're paying for a lot more than the nuts and bolts. Everyone knows Hermes and what they stand for, that costs a lot and it gets recouped in the pricing

Good luck to them. If someone buys it and enjoys it that's fair enough for me

 

[Cycleops]

Let’s just remind ourselves of the typical Hermes customer wearing one of their products:

 

[Markymark]

What if the two t-shirts are identical? But one has a brand name on it?

Which is the scenario with many designer clothes. They are often identical save for a logo. People pay more for it.

 

[gavroche]

People's ego is their downfall and manufacturers / advertisers know how to use that to their advantage.

 

[MiK1138]

I guess if you want it can afford it then why not. I was talking to a relation I haven't seen in a while and he told me he just bought himself a Ferrari F40, he didnt need it but he wanted it. so fair do's

 

[MichaelW2]

But I'm not sure what is special about this bike? It comes with that funny thing next to the chainrings. There has to be some thing, anything, that this bike has that another doesn't .Perhaps it has no-questions-asked theft insurance included in the price, or they will deliver the bike to your door and give you a bike fitting arrive in your house, or, well, just something.

But I don't see anything on the bike, or comes with the bike.

The frame is by Time, who knit their own carbon, it has sliding vertical rear dropouts which is a rare feature, as well as front mudguard eyelets on a high end carbon frame. The short wheelbase seat-tube cutout may do something...or not. The rear disk brake is is the wrong position for a utility bike that wears mudguards and panniers but I don't imagine I will see this one locked up at Aldi's on a rainy day. Ultra-prestige utility bikes are a logical disconnect even if they are very nice ones.