Originally Posted by
jrhoneOC
Thanks. Im not looking to dump money into this bike. Its a brand new bike and im learning and getting into shape on it. Currently it far exceeds my abilities so I am very happy with it. I was just wondering aside from components what makes a more expensive bike THAT much more expensive. I kept seeing “lightweight” in the literature but when I looked up bike weight they arent significantly lighter. So I was wondering is a few pounds significant? To me its not but again Im a newb.
There is a LOT more than weight that makes one bike cost more than another. But without knowing what you are looking at it is hard to say what that it.
Two forks can weigh the same, but one be worth 4 times what the other is because it performs better. Same with full suspension frames.