Cyclists think it’s cool that I got mine from a co-op that fixes up old bikes. Yeah there are douchebags in cycling, like any other hobby. But you also got plenty of DIY punk types and folks who just enjoy their time on two wheels
Yeah never heard anything like that, my bike was £600. Cheap bikes are the ones under £200. Once you are in the multiple thousands you are getting to pro athlete levels.
While my bike was 300 and I like to say that anything above 500 is too much; I do have acquaitance with a man with a 1500€ bike that has acquaintance with a person with a 30k€ bike Dx
Don’t know about too much, but more than necessary perhaps. Mine was £600, probably didn’t need to go that expensive but I use it a lot so its hardly a bad choice either.
Then again, got over £200 in accessories with just the ortlieb XL pannier bags. I cycle to work every day, so arguably its pretty easy to justify spending a fair bit. If I took the bus that would cost over £1k a year. So even that €1.5k bike is fairly easy to justify compared to bus prices if you want a decent bike.
I meant more in the sense of how much the price increase of bikes doesn’t match the quality increase proportionally. I’m very roughly estimating where biking instead of any motorisation is what I generally commend in any case, even the money save thanks to it aside
Disc brakes aren’t fancy any more, or insanely expensive – and they can be way easier to work on than truing a wheel perfectly to get your rim brakes working just right.
Maybe I’ve been lucky but only once did i need to get my brake lines bled. Otherwise, just replace the pads when they wear out, and the thing is self-adjusting.
Miss me with that electronic shifting though. We’re not airplanes. We don’t need fly by wire.
Electric shifting has pretty much 0 maintenance these days, there are no adjustments on the electric derailleurs that bolt on to the frame. Charging it once a month is mildly annoying though and I wish they put bigger density batteries in.
Either that, or make it easier to just hook up whenever I park my bike, or some kind of alarm when it’s under 20% or something. Because what happens is that I grab my bike, leave home, shift three times, and then when i’m too far out, find that it’s actually empty.
My regular city bike has manual hub gears, which I have maintained once in 25 years, and they’re fine.
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This has never happened ever, not even once.
Tour de France-level bikes cost $15k. You quite literally cannot spend more.
Cyclists think it’s cool that I got mine from a co-op that fixes up old bikes. Yeah there are douchebags in cycling, like any other hobby. But you also got plenty of DIY punk types and folks who just enjoy their time on two wheels
Yep. In my experience, cyclists just love any bike. They’re all nice!
Yeah never heard anything like that, my bike was £600. Cheap bikes are the ones under £200. Once you are in the multiple thousands you are getting to pro athlete levels.
While my bike was 300 and I like to say that anything above 500 is too much; I do have acquaitance with a man with a 1500€ bike that has acquaintance with a person with a 30k€ bike Dx
Unless it was a custom build or something from a luxury automotive brand, that seems unlikely.
It was either or one of those to, yes, I remember the conversation rather vaguely to be quite honest, the absurd price is what stuck the most to me
Don’t know about too much, but more than necessary perhaps. Mine was £600, probably didn’t need to go that expensive but I use it a lot so its hardly a bad choice either.
Then again, got over £200 in accessories with just the ortlieb XL pannier bags. I cycle to work every day, so arguably its pretty easy to justify spending a fair bit. If I took the bus that would cost over £1k a year. So even that €1.5k bike is fairly easy to justify compared to bus prices if you want a decent bike.
I meant more in the sense of how much the price increase of bikes doesn’t match the quality increase proportionally. I’m very roughly estimating where biking instead of any motorisation is what I generally commend in any case, even the money save thanks to it aside
Disc brakes aren’t fancy any more, or insanely expensive – and they can be way easier to work on than truing a wheel perfectly to get your rim brakes working just right.
Maybe I’ve been lucky but only once did i need to get my brake lines bled. Otherwise, just replace the pads when they wear out, and the thing is self-adjusting.
Miss me with that electronic shifting though. We’re not airplanes. We don’t need fly by wire.
You don’t need any of that stuff though. That’s just for rich bike nerds. Tell those dorks to get stuffed while you save a few thousand dollars.
Electric shifting has pretty much 0 maintenance these days, there are no adjustments on the electric derailleurs that bolt on to the frame. Charging it once a month is mildly annoying though and I wish they put bigger density batteries in.
Is there a benefit over wire shifting?
Either that, or make it easier to just hook up whenever I park my bike, or some kind of alarm when it’s under 20% or something. Because what happens is that I grab my bike, leave home, shift three times, and then when i’m too far out, find that it’s actually empty.
My regular city bike has manual hub gears, which I have maintained once in 25 years, and they’re fine.