Hello All,
This post caught my attention just because I think that the Condor Fratello is a lovely looking bike.
Now whilst this is a lovely looking bike which I'd love to own sadly it's out of my price range but it does no harm to dream. Therefore having a spare couple of minutes just now I took a look at the Condor website after I'd read the Road cc review, to which a link was posted above, but I'll post again here for quick reference:-
http://road.cc/content/review/143345-condor-fratello-disc-road-bike
Now I've never been in a position to buy a custom bike whereby you choose all of the components and build it up yourself but one thing about this process and the Road cc review just made me think.
The Road cc review states that the price of the bike is £1,400 but also in the article states that the bike starts at £1,305 depending on the components that you specify. The fact that it starts at £1,305 is pretty much correct because I went through the Condor website bike builder picking at each stage the cheapest component available for the Fratello Disc and it came out at £1,310
http://www.condorcycles.com/bike-builder
The only thing that I found a point of interest was that I thought it would be good if in the Road cc review when they state the bike cost they put a price range for a bike when it's customisable like this say £1,310 to £2,000 or whatever it is. Also what would be good is if they could state the component spec of the build that they tested. When I used the bike builder on the Condor website and selected the components that they do mention in the article it comes out at more than £1,400. That's why I thought it would also be good if as well as stating the price range of the bike they'd state the actual cost of the bike build they test and state what it was built up with.
Anyway maybe I'm being a bit picky because the bike given to journalists might be an early production/test model and may not exactly replicate what's available to buy. In addition maybe the bike company/manufacturer doesn't give the journalist a complete list of the bike components/ spec so they don't know themselves and so can't report it.
Therefore maybe I'm asking a bit too much but this just occurred to me when the price difference between the £1,400 price quoted of the Condor Fratello Disc on the Road cc test article and the actual price of it if you added the components that they mention the test bike had.
John