It's all TOO FARKIN MUCH, especially for steel or aluminium!!

I even reckon I paid too much for the Cervelo frame-set ($1700), and that's made in Taiwan. My Columbus Zonal alu was $800, my 531 Raleigh was $529 (in 1992), and my Kennedy Taiwanese Dedacciai 7003 (Norco? ), was $400, which goes faster that ALL the carbon I've ever seen on Beach Rd, or is that just my big arse making it go fast

As Thylo said, retail IS for suckers. If you don't 'know' anyone is the biz, just go for the bargains, or haggle the crap out of someone with cash.

that shop at the top of Hampton St., just down from South Rd (a few doors down from Blockbuster), is selling some Cervelo and Look frame-sets for around $3000.


what else?.......ummm.....oh yeah, ACR (cnr Toorak Rd and Burwood Hwy) have at least 25 De Rosa alu frames that they can't sell. They're going for reasonable prices, for De Rosas (eg, approx $1700 for a De Rosa Vision, and ~$1400 for a De Rosa Vega), but I still reckon that's too much.


Kennedy does custom alu Columbus Zonal frames for ~$1300