Originally Posted by Dion Rides

IDK, seriously... who cares? So it's a group (or maybe one person) trying to start a business that they're probably not making any money off of. Think about, over the years, how many people have had an idea to start something with dreams of making it big? Many fail, but some succeed.

In this case, they probably don't have the resources to get discounts on the parts, and therefore when they factor in margin, they probably really don't make anything off a sale of that bike. In my experience of building bikes, $500 is around what it costs to build something from scratch at that quality. So they make $150 on some rare chance that somebody actually orders one. And I highly doubt they are getting dozens of orders per week. And if they do... good for them! Then they have to figure in the labor of assembly and packing for safe shipping.

As a professional who has my own office, I have to do everything on my own. My job is stable, nobody's going to lay me off, and my income has increased 30% every year, even in this economy. I'm sick of lazy people relying on government aid, sitting on their asses, not improving their life, and waiting for free money to come in the mail. America has lost the feeling of entrepreneurship that many immigrants and poor people had when they were trying to make ends meet and they didn't have government aid to help them out. The real irony here is that, because we bail out everybody, nobody takes the bull by the horns anymore. And then when somebody does, they are made fun of? Makes no sense at all.

Now, some tiny speck in Los Angeles is trying to go for it and possibly make money doing what they love to do (we used to call that the American Dream), and then people blast them on this forum.

Shame. I don't wish bad on them... I sincerely hope they do well.