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Fortune cookie says..."One man's fortune is another man's pocket change".
My mate recently bought a £1k specialized FSR. I was pretty impressed at how well it rode compared to my 5 year old 5 spot.
Bikes are more expensive than they were 5 years ago, but then they are a lot better.
I paid £4k for my 5 spot and when it bites the dust I won't buy another top end bike, I'll get a £2k trek or specialized full and I'm pretty sure it'll be as good if not better than what I currently have.
When I read the post im pretty sure a GT employee said its made in china and they have a history of working with that factory.I stand corrected it is actually taiwan.
I suppose I'm wondering how long it will be before someone sets up manufacturing in the UK as the prices aren't that dissimilar anymore with the exception of Orange off the top of my head I can't think of anyone else mainstream that is,with the exception of the custom folks.
Not going to happen. We (the West) have been deliberately de-industrialised, to break the working and middle classes. And the BIG LIE of man-made global warming has allowed more banking shenanigans in the form of media hysteria and carbon offset trading which only serves to hinder re-industrialisation...
The UK is finished. We are 2nd world already.
Van cough cough
who is the guilty person who has de-industrialised the West?
I think you'll find it's all of us who buy foreign cars, toasters, washing machines, TVs, bikes, motorbikes, mobile phones blah blah. We buy foreign stuff becasue we want the choice (and maybe better stuff than the UK/Western industries supply).
All the time we want more for less, Manufacturers are being forced to look elsewhere for cheaper ways of producing stuff, and that means (in many cases) that manufacturing goes overseas, followed by the support industry that goes with it.
It's our own fault!
So, the answer to this is to not look at Western governments, but our own buying habits and do what the Far East people encourages, and buy locally produced goods. Import taxation can help here, but that won't change our views, only what we can afford.
And the answer to the OP - yes, bike industry is taking the pee. But it charges what it thinks we will collectively pay. If we all refuse to pay that price, the prices will (over time) come down - after all, they can't sell a 2010 frame for 2011 prices because no one will pay that - they need to see that no one will pay 2011 prices for a 2011 frame either.
No.. there are individuals who are orchestrating this... Company owners, consumers, governments.. and the pupeteer elite like the Rothschild clan and Al Gore who have attempted to subvert science with their man made global warming nonsense and associated carbon offset taxes.