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What's with all the hate on the welds? They look amazing. Definitely proper man welds. I think its just all you soft boys that are used to your girly carbon and hydroformed tubing you've been spoiled with over the recent years. The frame itself is ugly as sin. But the welds are perfect.

UK police are terrible for bike thefts. When I was still living with my parents I had loads of bike parts stolen from the storage shed in the back garden. Took the police a whole 2 days to send somebody over to fingerprint (after typical British weather). Said they got nothing (obviously) and gave up. Then in my own place, I had a bike stolen, nobody actually came over to inspect. Told me over the phone to go around local stores and neighbours and ask myself if they have captured anything on CCTV... As im sure you can imagine, if some random guy walks into a store and asks where the cameras are and which way they are pointing they are clearly not doing to tell me anything! Obviously that bike was never seen again either. Throughout the years many of my friends bikes have been stolen from their properties (and they always had rather fancy ones) . And not a single one has had them recovered or properly looked into. Always a case of "just claim on your home insurance"... This county is a joke.

What's the point in this article? Or course they won't all come pre protected! Why would someone buy a new bike, when after a few years, they can just buy new frame wraps and replace bearings/shock service at a massively lower cost to make it look and feel like new all over again? Thus stopping a rider from purchasing another bike or frame, thus reducing overall annual sales because more people will be hanging on to their bikes longer. And if this happens, bike manufacturers will then increase their prices even more to compensate. Article already mentions that yeti come with wraps in box, but think at how expensive they are already, they've likely already factored this into their pricing as mentioned above.