Originally Posted by
TenSpeedV2
That pizza analogy is spot on. Several people have asked me how much my TK2 cost. No idea I tell em, it was pieced together and built at a bike shop (the truth). Even if I knew, I wouldn't say. They would be like, hell, you can get a sweet bike with suspension at Wal-Mart for like $129. They understand nothing about the quality of that bike, and are absolutely blinded by the price. Quality comes at a price regardless of what it is that you are buying.
Thank you. It is so true. Plus that TK2 is your baby and you had a direct hand in it beyond just the handing over of credit card info.
You don't have to get tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil flown in directly from Italy to have a nice pizza but you also shouldn't relegate yourself to tomato flavored sauce product and imitation hydrogenated corn oil.