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Originally Posted by habernac
non bike people are shocked when I tell them $300 will buy them a crappy bike.
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and this is a horribly difficult concept for me to digest as well. In the 90s, I had the top of the line Mongoose that I used to compete on. Full rigid indestructable steel beast, it took 2 years of daily commuting and weekly BMX/DJ abuse before a wheel even went out of true. $200, new from the store.
Getting back into bikes, I really needed to ride the $400 bike before I could justify opening the purse strings to get something I like (to figure out what I actually want). IMO, there is something seriously wrong with the bicycle industry. I still don't get how OEMs can develop a Rockey Thunderbolt MSL 799 at the same price point as a Kawasaki Ninja 1000abs. Bicycle pricing is a friggin joke.