Fixies can be mass produced and retail <$400 (RetroSpec is practically giving away their fixies at a loss, at $179 right now)Generic road frames at every size from 54cm 56cm 58cm 60cmNice lightweight 700c road wheels and decent 28mm road tiresFront and rear rim brakes, swappable hubOh but a generic MTB frame in Medium size that fits everyone from 5'2" to 6' decently, ohhhh noOOOOO we can't do that lets do $1,399 MSRPI just want a super simple bike, geared low for cruising, and able to fit 2.3" tires.
https://bikesonline.com/products/ns-bike-eccentric-cromo-29-hardtail-frameset?currency=USD&variant=50880379912484&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&stkn=b53ff5dacb4c&tp_cid=16559821138&tp_id=&tp_pid=NSP-3992&tp_source=google&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16556285943&gbraid=0AAAAACuNPQYE2c0tfbjj_Bn5AtBSz4P8Z&gclid=CjwKCAiAw9vIBhBBEiwAraSATnV0TfCZh943Y53mT9t1M2AWjCu0jAbjpuXi7Wj-JFZCNlqrFogTzRoCBt0QAvD_BwE
>$1,399 MSRPthe link is showing me a frame that is $300 though. you may want to read up on a concept called "price anchoring", it may help you in the future
I mean the thing about selling MTB products is that you sign off for people to ride them offroad in unpredictable conditions. Its a completely different product it has to beable to withstand forces a road bike just doesn't its gonna be more metal and cost more. whats another word for someone who doesn't know, oh yeah stupid.
>>2058823 What
>>2058830>https://bikesonline.com/products/ns-bike-eccentric-cromo-29-hardtail-framesetis there something I missed? I took all the spyware referral link garbage out of your link so maybe they just increased the price for you because their algorithm profiled you as someone who is going to buy no matter what whereas they know I'm not going to buy anything from them in a million years
>>2058827Knower
>>2058827boomers jump bamboo bikes just finehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYhm0WIKsIwhile we pretend the cheap aliexpress aluminer s finna kill on sighthttps://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005556987280.html
>>2058863I think Chinese manufacturer is regularly more honest and truer to advertisement then most western products. That frame you sent says MTB so its safe to use for mtbing cause its been designed with those pressures in mind. If you've ever been even in the same room as an engineer this should make sense to you.
>>2058822Everything after the first ? is bullshitTruncate your links nigga
it is insane how much prices have gone up i paid under $500 for the 2009 version of this bike the current one is $1300
the market will bear the price because it's more important to price people like OP off the trails than it is to save a completely trivial amount of money on an entry-level steed. I can't actually remember the last time I saw a bike worth less than $6,000 at the trailhead tbqh (other than my own)
>>2058823If you want a <$400 mtb frame here you go, it's on sale. Why does it matter if such a frame is being mass produced or not? It will last you a lifetime.
>>2058870by the amount of money printed during thy vid that frame should cost almost 3 thousand.
