And you also left out all the other points - about price, components, weight - the full picture. The answer I provided you was to point out the weight comparison was not being made vs a CF bike - all ignored.

This is not a luxury bike, not some epic piece of wristwear. Its an aluminum frame made in some factory overseas - to an unknown level of quality or standard... not luxury, not high end, not some precision piece of hand crafted engineering...

They reason they will charge 4 grand for a bike of this nature - because people will defend them charging 4 grand for a bike of this nature... And for whatever reason, purchase said bike. To each his own on that I guess - but some of us will call out the madness.