If its Titanium I rather doubt he can get it for under 400, no matter how good friends he is with the welder, if its any less I wouldn't even trust it.
How are you calculating your cost for a Titanium frame? What quantities are you assuming for price points? Where are your sourcing your materials, and how much have you included for labor? Do you assume manual or automated assembly?
...or did you pull that number out of your [censored]?
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How are you calculating your cost for a Titanium frame? What quantities are you assuming for price points? Where are your sourcing your materials, and how much have you included for labor? Do you assume manual or automated assembly?
...or did you pull that number out of your [censored]?
Well, the sponge frames were about $450, and made in a country with cheaper labour, and relatively local access to materials, by a company that has access to the materials in large quantities due to making bike frames out of it. So that might be a possible minimum cost.
Also, given titanium is harder to weld and more expensive than steel, you can maybe expect a price somewhere around the price of the original hand-built KH frames as a minimum, which were something like $500 each.
How are you calculating your cost for a Titanium frame? What quantities are you assuming for price points? Where are your sourcing your materials, and how much have you included for labor? Do you assume manual or automated assembly?
...or did you pull that number out of your [censored]?
Well, the sponge frames were about $450, and made in a country with cheaper labour, and relatively local access to materials, by a company that has access to the materials in large quantities due to making bike frames out of it. So that might be a possible minimum cost.
Also, given titanium is harder to weld and more expensive than steel, you can maybe expect a price somewhere around the price of the original hand-built KH frames as a minimum, which were something like $500 each.
How are you calculating your cost for a Titanium frame? What quantities are you assuming for price points? Where are your sourcing your materials, and how much have you included for labor? Do you assume manual or automated assembly?
...or did you pull that number out of your [censored]?
Well, the sponge frames were about $450, and made in a country with cheaper labour, and relatively local access to materials, by a company that has access to the materials in large quantities due to making bike frames out of it. So that might be a possible minimum cost.
Also, given titanium is harder to weld and more expensive than steel, you can maybe expect a price somewhere around the price of the original hand-built KH frames as a minimum, which were something like $500 each.
How are you calculating your cost for a Titanium frame? What quantities are you assuming for price points? Where are your sourcing your materials, and how much have you included for labor? Do you assume manual or automated assembly?
...or did you pull that number out of your [censored]?
I pulled it out my ass pretty much. But I based it on prices I have seen. I tried to get a frame made by a couple companies who were looking in the 800 dollar range, so I figured that Triton would be around as low as you could get. Plus from what I hear it is a lot more expensive to get things made in the US, so yeah its an ass number, but there is a bit of info behind it. I guess I should have said this info in the original reply though.
