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Grand re-opening is Saturday, August 1st.  there are rumblings of a Gnar-B-Q on August 7th.  Sounds like fun to me.

I’m semi in the market for a frame.  I don’t need one, but I have half a bike in my garage and I want to make something, it seems that a frame would be helpful.  I could just buy the Eastern Dragon 1 that’s been on the wall at Mama’s for like four years, but I decided I’d explore my options.  So, I went to Dan’s and just for a laugh I decided to see how much FBM frames would run me.  I actually kinda like the Exodus, it seems like an old man frame and FBM guys read this stuff, so it seemed like a good thing.  But then I noticed something weird.

If you sort the frames in price descending order, well, it’s chock full of overseas made frames at the high end.  While I realize that country of origin isn’t the be all end all of pricing, that was always the draw of import frames, no?  Cheaper, but similar quality of domestic frames?  I, honestly, wasn’t expecting that.  So, now I have to wonder, why would I buy a Taiwanese frame for what I could probably get a custom American made frame for.  Not that I have anything against Taiwanese frames, I even ride one, but the mild custom stuff I’d want (hey, can you give me an extra quarter inch up front?) wouldn’t be that ‘spensive, I wouldn’t think.

I dunno, I guess in a world where a $40K Hyundai makese sense this isn’t that odd.  No, no, it’s still odd.  BMX makes my brain hurt sometimes.