I wasn't unclear on your curiosity. I was unclear on precisely which question you were asking. Now I think I understand that your two questions:
"anyone know why new MIT Homer frames cost $100 more than new MIT Sam frames? Tubing?" Could be rewritten to read: "I assume that the Hilsen costs about $100 more to make than the Hillborne. Why does the Hilsen cost about $100 to produce? Is it because the tubing in the Hilsen is ~$100 more expensive than the tubing used in the Hillborne?" Assuming those were the questions you were getting at, then those were the questions I attempted to touch on. As far as I know, the tubing in both bikes are similar in price. I do not think we can attribute the price difference to tubing. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 9:18:49 AM UTC-8, tc wrote: > > I’m asking because I’m curious, as I said. I thought the web site had a > misprint. Then I checked the printed catalog and saw the $100 difference. > The Sam is supposedly stouter per Riv’s description, and also has canti > posts, so more cost assumed there. So, looking at lugs, I didn’t see a > vast difference. The Homer has the ball and socket seat stay/lug treatment, > which I also understood to be cheaper to manufacture. So that left me > thinking the tubing on Homer may be more costly. And, as you say, maybe > $100 a pop helps offset the setup costs. > > Tom > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
