Andre thanks for posting that link ,bikes are stunning jeez if a fella had only money. 
Actually, Marschall isn't expensive at all by German custom standards. For instance, I could have a Rohbloff 29er from him for near-enough Kranich money -- if I was prepared to wait. I wasn't. Other custom makers, especially the better Americans like David Bohm, are a good deal more expensive and many of them make dull if worthy bikes; I mention Bohm by name because he makes an exciting bike and is also an artist: see
http://www.bohemianbicycles.com And here is an article I wrote about one of the dull ones, Waterford Bikes, after some American roadies thought it amusing to hound me for not buying American:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/rec.bicycles.tech/LqY0UpZTIP0/KW_fz6H3sbQJ -- notice Carl Lundquist pitching in in support; as usual on RBT with any substantive thread this one is not for the squeamish.
The Marschall secret is that, once you've totted up the frame and fork and major extra fittings and polishing if you want it, you can get all kinds of alterations and extra fittings free -- bits that everyone else charges extra for. And he throws in a Chris King headset, fitted. I calculated everything, right up to the moment I took my first ride, and in that spreadsheed, for so beautiful a bike, made with such rare tubes, a Marschall looked like a bargain.
Maybe in these economic times his waiting list is shorter.
Andre Jute
