ryancycles wrote:
> Just to give people a rough idea of the costs involved in building
> bikes.
> It's been quite a few years, but if I remember correctly the total
> cost of parts and materials for the Vanguard was about $700.
> Welding per frame $40, welding per seat frame $30 Paint $80 ****pping
> boxes $6 manufacturers liability insurance $50.
Stop using welding to make the seat frame? Use a thin aluminium
sheet that you press into shape? $80 painting also seems expensive
compared to the $40 welding.
> So before such things as rent, electricity, heat, telephone, argon gas
> for the tig welder, etc. we had $906 into the bike. Labor costs? I
> don't really know. Excluding the costs for welding the frames that we
> paid a free lance welder for as mentioned above, we probably had about
> 20-25 hours into each bike.
> The bike required a lot more labor because of the additional
> complexity of the underseat steering. My typical work day started at
Then dont use underseat steering.
JonB
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