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The bike is at the crux of all sorts of interesting and problematic relations (aesthetic and ideological—ideological in a limited sense, say, fatness v thiness). There's a really strange tension between the oversized and contemporary and the sleek and classic; it some ways she's really ugly, but really, really interesting .. which you can't say for most bikes. Probably just the almost military finish is worth the money. I think your cyberjunkies are probably great sophisticates in weighing their own versions of something like these tensions which may well be modeled in their own minds in inward-facing ways.