Originally Posted by
RPK79
Manufacturing cost is really not a major driver for any consumer product.
Originally Posted by
TobinH
My frames usually cost around $1500. When I think about the material cost, and the labour for welding, machining and cutting, it seems about right. So the cost of my frames are obviously driven by manufacturing cost. Of course, they're steel.
So I was looking at this frame Pinarello Dogma 60.1 Frameset. As well as being made of CF it also has some pretty unique properties like being asymmetrical. Surely that must make manufacturing more expensive.