Originally Posted by
TNCLR
It's important to note that what you're paying for on a Vanilla are all those cute little details. It's definitely an "artisan" bike for people who can afford all those bells and whistles. If that's what you think is cool, then Vanilla and their ilk are the bikes for you.
Even without those the base price for a vanilla was really high when it was still published and look at the speedvagen now.
Well, just about everyone in the assembly of that car is a artisan. Yes the people who assemble that car are artists. Its a craft thats not practiced much anymore. People who do things like that are proud of what they do, they do it because they love it. I hope vanillas success would bring more frame builders out of hiding, or we will all be riding some crap asian frame built in sweatshops.
I can't tell if this is serious or not. Assuming it is:
ferrari factory tour
I fail to see how a worker on the assembly line for ferrari is really any different from a robot on the corvette line. The production techniques aren't that different and there isn't any more room for creative expression that is the center of art. Similarly I don't think a standard sized speedvagen is inherently different than a taiwanese frame. It's nicer than any I can think of but it's still just a bunch of metal welded together in a predetermined fashion.