Ah, no, your theory is right holmes, must admit I didn't, or maybe scanned it and got sleepy. Praps skol should in his extensive post have said this. My essential points remain though. Perfectly possibly to have a wonderful running utility bike that doesn't look like it and so is pretty thief resistant. I would guess that you wouldn't leave such a pricey bike out in the mean streets. Of course if skol only has room for one bike the ussue is a bit more complex/real.
Edit, on an academic point, confused by prices on this (and admit guilt in not reading skol's collected works), if new bike has an rrp of 1800, are the transferred bits in addition to this?
Edit _ reply to colin. John dived in between