|
I have been following Craigs build from the beginning, and have ridden in Three Vetter challenges. he is only offering the nose piece for sale, and at a price of $750 plus shipping, it has a much higher cost to me than making my own fairing. if you look at the supply chain it is obvious why. Craig has a professional fiberglasser manufacture the part. they mark up the price to reflect their overhead and profit, making $250 worth of materials cost $500 to Craig. He then marks up the product to reflect his investment in it (he is actually not making much if any profit on these) bringing the price to $750. Finally the shipping company gets their cut (we'll estimate $75 roughly) bringing the price to $825. $250 in fiberglass and resin becomes $825 to the consumer, and if Craig were attempting to make even a small profit in this venture, it would be closer to $1000. It must be noted that this only includes the nose not a completed front fairing, and no tail if I were to finish out the front fairing in aluminum it might cost another $100, and an aluminum tail might be a couple of hundred more at the current cost of aluminum. That brings total cost near $1100. If this option had been available before I began working on my own fairing, it might have saved me some money. as it is, I am probably only about another $250ish away from a finished fairing system for my bike. it would not make sense to change directions now.
|