How can a $14,000 bicycle possibly be worth the money?
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I have no problem with people spending large amounts of money on recreation and hobbies.
I do tend to believe that products are only the sum of their parts. A $14,000 bicycle has very few parts. I could take one completely apart and put it back together in one day. Try that with a $14,000 motorcycle.
At least a Rolex watch will generally go up in value. A $14,000 bicycle will be worth a small fraction of its value in 10 years.
And No, I can’t take a Rolex apart and put it back together.
Most people in the car business will only buy used vehicles because they know how fast they lose their value.
I do tend to believe that products are only the sum of their parts. A $14,000 bicycle has very few parts. I could take one completely apart and put it back together in one day. Try that with a $14,000 motorcycle.
At least a Rolex watch will generally go up in value. A $14,000 bicycle will be worth a small fraction of its value in 10 years.
And No, I can’t take a Rolex apart and put it back together.
Most people in the car business will only buy used vehicles because they know how fast they lose their value.
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Valid. I can get 25s on my Colnago, but I'm not 100% sure I could on my Time. That said, I'm running 25s on my newer (but still rim brake) Storck, and probably won't change.
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I have no problem with people spending large amounts of money on recreation and hobbies.
I do tend to believe that products are only the sum of their parts. A $14,000 bicycle has very few parts. I could take one completely apart and put it back together in one day. Try that with a $14,000 motorcycle.
At least a Rolex watch will generally go up in value. A $14,000 bicycle will be worth a small fraction of its value in 10 years.
And No, I can’t take a Rolex apart and put it back together.
Most people in the car business will only buy used vehicles because they know how fast they lose their value.
I do tend to believe that products are only the sum of their parts. A $14,000 bicycle has very few parts. I could take one completely apart and put it back together in one day. Try that with a $14,000 motorcycle.
At least a Rolex watch will generally go up in value. A $14,000 bicycle will be worth a small fraction of its value in 10 years.
And No, I can’t take a Rolex apart and put it back together.
Most people in the car business will only buy used vehicles because they know how fast they lose their value.
A watch costing $400,000 is seemingly OK but a bike costing a fraction of that that can get you places and give you more fun than a simple time telling device which has been kind of outpaced by a phone or a less expensive but also still not cheap watch that also can take calls and send messages and what not.
Again this is a bike forum, bikes are awesome. Why a bike is ridiculous here but a watch isn't is kind of odd.
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Were you forced to buy the $14,000 bike? No? I'm so happy for you. Now crawl back under your bridge, troll.
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I have no problem with people spending large amounts of money on recreation and hobbies.
I do tend to believe that products are only the sum of their parts. A $14,000 bicycle has very few parts. I could take one completely apart and put it back together in one day. Try that with a $14,000 motorcycle.
At least a Rolex watch will generally go up in value. A $14,000 bicycle will be worth a small fraction of its value in 10 years.
And No, I can’t take a Rolex apart and put it back together.
Most people in the car business will only buy used vehicles because they know how fast they lose their value.
I do tend to believe that products are only the sum of their parts. A $14,000 bicycle has very few parts. I could take one completely apart and put it back together in one day. Try that with a $14,000 motorcycle.
At least a Rolex watch will generally go up in value. A $14,000 bicycle will be worth a small fraction of its value in 10 years.
And No, I can’t take a Rolex apart and put it back together.
Most people in the car business will only buy used vehicles because they know how fast they lose their value.
A Rolex, BTW, has no more parts than any other autowind watch and you can snag those for pretty cheap, and they might just do the job of keeping time as well as the Rolex. The Timex mentioned above will probably do a BETTER job of keeping time, largely by virtue of not being mechanical.
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I was responding directly to a question you posed. Did you want an answer to your question or do your prefer that everyone simply ignore it?
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Expanding on the Rolex theme, Rolex and the other high end mechanical watch makers did an amazing job selling an inferior product as a luxury item. I say "inferior product", because prior to the advent of quartz watches, what you got when you paid more for a watch was greater accuracy and reliability. Along comes quartz, with an inherent accuracy that mechanical watches could never dream of. And yet the Swiss were able to actually move farther upmarket with a product that does a worse job at its primary task. At least an expensive road bike generally does a better job at its primary task than a cheaper one, even it it's a matter of ounces or a few watts of wind resistance.
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You didn't respond with any answers though. Your response was the same 'it's worth $14k because it's worth $14k' non-answer that everyone else gave.
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A $14,000 bike is about 1% to 2% better at the most than a bike that costs $5,000, so you have to decide if spending 3 times the amount of money is worth the 1% improvement. At $5,000 you can get a 15 pound bike with Dura Ace components, so what will you gain with a $14,000 bicycle? As you can see not much.
By the way, $15,000 bikes are more fragile for everyday road riding than a $5,000 bike.
By the way, $15,000 bikes are more fragile for everyday road riding than a $5,000 bike.
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I most clearly did not. I responded to your post expressing frustration that people were not answering the OP's question, by listing two reasons why that might be happening.
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Or is it just a perception that a more expensive bike must be more delicate because of price?
Anecdotal evidence isn't useful here so that friend you had with an S-Works that cracked because he smacked into a road sign but when you did it on your 3k Trek Ednoma that one time it was fine. It is not a useful argument without actual testing.
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A $14,000 bike is about 1% to 2% better at the most than a bike that costs $5,000, so you have to decide if spending 3 times the amount of money is worth the 1% improvement. At $5,000 you can get a 15 pound bike with Dura Ace components, so what will you gain with a $14,000 bicycle? As you can see not much.
By the way, $15,000 bikes are more fragile for everyday road riding than a $5,000 bike.
By the way, $15,000 bikes are more fragile for everyday road riding than a $5,000 bike.
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