FYI - Herse and confentes were meant to be ridden. Hard and fast.

I think Grail has had definition issues everytime it's used. Grail is the ends of an impossible search. Just having it obtainable at all is a compromise. Using the term Grail for a pegoretti that you could start ordering tomorrow would be like if Indiana jones and the quest for the holy grail ended when he got off the plain in Austria. Elsa has it and sells it to him for $5,000. Or perhaps the Python cast gets it from the French castle right off the bat. No weights of swallows, no neeee.

Not much of a movie. Obviously any analogy is going to be problematic, but I think it has to mean more than just expensive.

This is in no way an attack on pegoretti...or customs. My custom Marnati is my dream bike - it has the romance of my honeymoon in its tubes and miles of great riding in every paint chip. It was meant to ride and it gets ridden - I doubt anything but a custom from another great builder would ever fill me with such joy.