Originally Posted by deputyjones
Your response here shows how much of a challenge to your conventional wisdom this thread is. Amazing to me that people are so willing to hold onto their preconceived notions that they will actually attack others.
Your conventional wisdom is no better than that of the person who buys a Hummer to drive to work. "I paid more for it so it must be a better vehicle (it's got better components), plus it looks cool (people will see me on my carbon road bike and think I am cool), and it's safer (this is not true, but the OP's bike has not fallen apart and killed him like many have warned). You and the other attackers here are simply products of years of conditioning just like any other SUV owner who would do just as well with a Corolla.
The OP is not asking you to head over to X-Mart and buy one. He is merely asking you to open your mind a bit.
**edited to add the last sentence.
the reponse in which you refer to doesn't seem an attack to me... unlike yours.
i think his/hers is a brief way of pointing out the numerous posts in the commuter forum that seem to gauge a products worth by the pricetag placed upon it.
where you explain that many consumers place a value upon a highly marked pricetag as meaning quality, i see the opposite here, it is often that a lowly marked pricetag is held synonymous with bargain... at least until you mention lighting.
i have seen plenty of dittoheads here but the majority spew things like, 'carbon is fragile' or 'mp3 players will kill you'... i must be immuned to the posts that explain how an orbea orca makes them look cool as well as safer while being the best way to get to work. please give me an example.
price is part of an equation when determing a bargain... is the Denali a bargain? maybe, i can't tell from this review.