Originally Posted by
TenGrainBread
Firefly definitely have some amazing welders and I'm sure the bike rides awesome but...
This whole aesthetic with the ti builders of satin finish with bright anodized accents (ALWAYS with a King headset) is so boring and overdone. It looks like the flashy, extremely cheap Chinese-made headphones you would get at Best Buy. In a word, tacky. I see it replicated over and over with most of the ti-only builders I follow on social media.
EDIT: This is literally the first image that pops up when you google image search "best buy ear buds"! Notice any similarities?
I know, and all the best Tiffany diamonds always have those cheesy platinum mounts... And all Rolls-Royce feature that jaded front grill and Spirit of Ecstasy ornament like a metallic Tinker Bell. What were they thinking of!
Fortunately, taste is nothing anyone needs to justify, it's not like judgment, which is only as good as the supporting evidence.
People are free to like what they want without penalty, and at worst all one can say is that there are some
tastes that deserve a beating, but it's only words.
I also see dissimilarities. Metallic blue and metallic gray look, to me, a lot better than the non-metallic counterparts.
Also, I only have ONE titanium bike, so for me it's all new, and a good contrast with my other bikes. And, any and all, other titanium bikes out there do me no harm. I never see titanium bikes bunched up, like flies on dung, so I am usually riding pretty.
Kind regards.