Originally Posted by
LifeNovice1
I'm sure it's a great bike but for $1000 I can buy 40 cheap bikes. I can get a new one every year and still be way ahead by year 15. I'm a casual, around town rider/commuter so I doubt I'll ever use a 1000 dollar ( now 3000 in today's dollars?) to anything close to it's full capabilities.
I wouldn't want to own one cheap and nasty bike, much less forty of 'em. But you knock yourself out.
By the way, $1,000 in 2003 had the same purchasing power as $1,451 has today.