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I think they look badass!
But whats the pricepoint on them?
protos dont have price points.
It's red...stock Demo '12 pedal 
These have been floating around the web for several months. http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/member/2012-Prototypes,2006/Hope-pedals,16344/bturman,109
Good to see them finished and ready to roll.
Good to see them finished and ready to roll.
I rode those pedals for a week at whistler, really nice. No idea what they weigh though.
Who cares? They also make them overpriced due to labour costs in the UK.
I care, as I assume many people who understand sustainable economics do.
But you're probably right - how dare they try to make a profit and pay a competitive wage.
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Yeah they should just farm out the labor to some small factory in Taiwan or better yet china, and make pedals that compete with specialized's market control or ht's volume. There's absolutely no market for small maker, high end pedals like twenty6 burgtec or straitline. If only everything were made in Taiwan, then we could all follow evil's example and do things right.
And end up working in Chinese factories ourselves. Yay.
Cost doesn't worry me, performance is paramount to me.
Cost doesn't worry me, performance is paramount to me.
Labor cost=adult people paychecks,with high living costs,specialy you frasier should know wat high price living is like.
Speaking from experience......
The tool room mill and lathe operator(s), who uses the product and understand the design intent
The CNC toolpath programmers, who use the product and understand the design intent
The CNC operator(s), who uses the product and understand the design intent
The Assembly people, who use the product and understand the design intent
The shipping people, who use the product and understand the design intent
These are individuals that all care...and do cost a company more money than sending the operations to a mass manufacturing outfit. But, those people care a lot about that end product no matter how basic it is and at the end of the day my opinion is that that does in fact matter.
There's lots of people who are really good with Photoshop....I tend to think that I get around in it pretty well. So, imagine you have some raw images that are from an event. Would you want some Photoshop expert who doesn't know what an MTB is editing those images based off a detailed pdf of each image that you created? Based off of your pdf he has the data to do the work. Or, would you rather do the edit yourself or have a person, or group of people, that work with you day in and day out and really understand what you're looking for do it?
My $0.02
Darren
I guess we are to assume he isn't some selfish sucker buying overpriced Asian made goods, that would be even worse.
Nokia makes their high-end smartphones responsibly in Finland and Hungary at competitive pricing to Apple's Chinese slave made model with a piss poor environmental record.