Originally Posted by vonfilm

I was in a bicycle shop the other day when I noticed 3 Specialized Carbon racing bikes hanging in the front window with.$14,000 price tags. I guess they weighed about 16 pounds each.

Listen folks, one can buy a 100 horsepower plus new design water cooled motorcycle for this amount or less.

There is no way that 16 pounds of plastic, aluminum, circuit boards and rubber is worth $14,000.

You might try to tell me that bike racers need this. You can get a top notch KTM racing motorcycle for this price or less.

I doubt these bicycles cost Specialized $3500 to manufacture.