Originally Posted by late

Let you in on a little secret. Grant isn't 'into' components. He sells a lot of mid-grade stuff. Nothing wrong with it at all. But his bread and butter is frames.

I subscribe to Vintage Bike Quarterly. They test a lot of rando bikes. Most good rando frames cost $2K and up. There's a lot of work that goes into getting a bike just
right. Rivendell sweats the details. Having ridden a bunch of cheap frames and a few expensive ones, I can tell you that many of the expensive ones had something special about them. When I first test rode the bike I have now it put a goofy grin on my face.