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You're illustrating your argument with everything I hate about NAHBS Wank Fodder™
If it's about race wins, Brian Rourke has nothing to fear from these foreign upstarts, and doesn't feel the need to add hundreds of pounds to his prices by wasting time on filigree details which do nothing for performance. Obviously we have a fundamental philosophical difference, I look on a bicycle as a tool, you seem to see it as an end in itself.
Realistically, everybody who is making high end road or track frames in steel is getting their arse kicked in terms of pure performance by Chinese carbon frames at half the price, so whether a £1500 Rourke is better than a £3000 Pegoretti is like two bald men arguing over a comb, and I know whereof I speak.