snipped from below:
>"Why buy custom if I can get all the same parts
>and materials in a production bike for much less? "


why?!
you left out two very important qualities: design and construction.
all these posts about "handwork" are very interesting and i apprec-
iate the focus. but let's not sell ourselves short by implying that
the virtues of "what we do" are based in the exterior of the frame.
e-RICHIE