Again. (But not quite, alas.)
First off, that bike is heinous. Nobody asked me, and everyone should be happy with their bike as much as possible, and some people like the twits need to be taxed more, but jesus frakking chris christie at the pizza buffet, that thing is an (atrociously overpriced) abortion. Anywho.
Speedvagen in general is a grift to separate twits from their money. Sacha White did make bikes once, but now he's a marketing/cartoon character who devises insidious ways of making bikes cost two or three or four times what they should. Custom, proprietary, but ultimately functionally useless, bits and shapes? Yep? Outright dumb design choices so the proles know you bought a Speedvagen? Sure. Kewl-Kid cult of personality marketing--very expensive, btw? Check. Quick n' dirty contract construction? You betcha. Insane bespoke times three pricing? Oh, yeah! But people want what they want, even if you can get much better, cooler stuff from Rock Lobster or Carl Strong or a dozen other actual bike folks for way less than a Speedvagen poser douchebro special. The differences between Sacha White/Vanilla/Speedvagen and a, say, Richard Sachs is that Sr. E-Ritchey-sic was a racer and builder and racer and genuine character working his tools before he was an interwebs marketing cartoon character, whereas White kinda went from being some doof taking the framebuilding class to being a marketing guru in just a few short years, skipping all the stuff upon which actual legends are built. Isn't America wonderful!
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