Hi Jeff, $3,500 is the starting price for a custom bike. If/when the Appaloosa goes into production, it'll cost less. But probably not much less-- IIRC, the Bombadil is available as a "semi-custom", and runs $3,000. The Bombadil was billed as "spare-no-expense", whereas the Hunqapillar is the budgeted version at $2,000.
I'm guessing the tentacular stays add a lot of extra work to the build, hence $, so more than a Hunqapillar and towards the cost of a Bombadil (depending on special details). I don't think there will be enough sales volume for savings from economies of scale (not really characteristic of Riv bikes, anyway). Shoji On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:15:37 PM UTC-4, sameness wrote: > > I know this one's a leftover from the prototype run, but does anyone have > any insider intel on whether or not $3.5K will end up being the street > price for a production frame? > > I'd bother Riv directly, but I'm sure they'd rather hear from somebody > who's got a credit card in their hand. > > Jeff Hagedorn > Warragul, VIC Australia > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
