Are your statements any less presumptuous? You have no idea what my experience includes. But know this. I worked in the plastics manufacturing and converting industries for 30 years. (Carbon fiber composites are mostly plastic you know. Knowing the low cost of raw materials, the simplicity of the molding processes, and the region in which the parts are being manufactured, what would you guess the actual manufacturing cost of a rim is?

i find it amusing how so many on the 41 defend to the death the prices charged by bike industry suppliers. I have to assume that doing so is also a defense of their own buying decisions.