Originally Posted by
Santaria
So now you're claiming that everybody but ONE bike manufacturer is screwing over both the wholesale and the retail market. Haven't I already seen this argument one other time in this same thread? And when called on it, I was told what is being stated implicitly is not what you're seeing.
Either the few are being bamboozled by a bike manufacturer, or the many are being bamboozled by all bike manufacturers. Which seems more likely?
The latter (note the edit deletion). You see this argument often in these threads for the simple reason that people aren't total dolts and can see what is going on before them.
Unless we're talking high end and/or custom built bikes, the commonality between mass market bikes is startling to say the least....
I wouldn't refer to it as mere plebeian bamboozling, though. It is far more dynamic than that.