well I need to get up to date with smileys ..lol :-) is all I know ..
andyhow ...
you do have of course a point .... There are some parts which are hard to find ... like 4 year old forks or some handlebars ( like a 1 inch adjusatble one ) of course Dahon knows about this as well... you will see a refinement in new technologies over the next years ( i can really only talk about 08 bikes..) but not the everything needs to be new theme you and others do not like
( Its gonna be much more.. whats good stays ..... where there is a real huge improvement it will be new )

And if a part is not available than there are usually alternatives which are indeed available.. might not be the correct color or might not be adjusable .. or might even need to replace the fork as well ....

Other than that I do have 7 different and counting seatposts available for Dahons .... how many different option are there for Brand X not counting the regular size of 27.2 which I have 2



The XXV has indeed a couple items which are not availble anywhere else ( like the white Kojaks which are custom made.)... or the Sapim CXRay spokes ( oh wait.... I have those )

Its more a bike which will find 250 happy owners ... It gets Dahon a million bucks of free press ............actually the bike might be much more expensive than 3 grand ....... The good thing for all of us is that the no holds/ money no object bits and pieces on that bike will trickle down and will arrive on lesser models down the road ....

I am lusting for one of them.. would make a nice addition to the Helios XX i have ( 20 year edition )
I am hoping that somebody returns one all beaten up from the fed Ex man ...than I will be all over it ....
lol


Thor