looks like your going down a little clenched arse there mate...

there's the belief as a consumer that if you are buying a more expensive product for the same application that it is going to be better, just because it is more expensive. Orange frames however are bound to hold a high price tag, they are hand made and not mass produced in some eastern factory. A lot of the time the higher price tag for hand made, specialist frame also comes with better after care and warrenty replacement. Price also drops with quantity, mass producers such as kona will have a lower overhead because their frames are mass produced abroad.