wow... $240 is that what they retail for?...
it often surprises me what bikes and components retail for in the US... Like I said I am based in Taiwan, in the same city as SRAM's head office and also one of their main production facilities... As you know a lot of high end components and bikes are made here, so prices aren't too bad... to be honest I don't know what they are going to cost yet, I still have to get hold of SRAM's product manager...
I am putting together a new hardtail MTB project and my goal is to build a bike that is very high spec, but without any Shimano components... not because of any gripe about Shimano (except their 9 month lead time on their made in Japan / Singapore items), but because I'd like to prove to the Shimano obsessed MTB crowd here that you can do a *quality* spec without any Shimano XT / XTR...
and should end up with a very nice bike in the process...