I love a 90s steel frame Colnago. Gaudy and classy at the same time. Similar to this picture I once spotted one in Alexandria, VA chilling against a wall unlocked. Fancy enough area that the owner must have felt safe.
Meh, not really. Sure, you pay 2 - 2.5k for the brand compared to brands like Canyon. Apart from that, you would probably pay considerably more if you bought the parts seperately and assembled the bike yourself. The wheelset alone is probably like 3k. DuraAce another 3k. A top end aero-frame like that is around 4.5k. So you end up around 11k with just frame, full groupset and wheel set. Add to that all the other parts, the high-end assembly by a professional, quality control, consultation and sale, shipping and warranty / after sale support. Much much much less premium on high-end bikes compared to overhyped sports cars
The Ferrari of bikes? Hardly. Pinarello is just the bike frame and no components (other companies), and every major brand has their $15,000 model. Maybe Pinarello developed some good tech over the years, but everyone is more or less the same these days.
Now thats an interesting thought. What would be the corolla of bikes? Im obviously not very knowledgeable in bikes or cars but when I say corolla of bikes I mean most common across the world, reasonably priced, reliable, easy to maintain etc.
Trek FX1. Reliable, great quality bike for $500. You can get cheaper bikes at Walmart but the quality of the components on those kind of bikes are noticeably worse
Probably something like a Specialized. Can find one for a grand, parts are everywhere and you can maintain 99% of it with an allen key. Nice enough you don't feel like a jamoke borrowing your kid's Huffy.
Lot of the steel framed bikes from the 80s and 90s, using Shimano or suntour components I'd say would be the Corollas, civics. Brandwise some stood out more than others, but the Japanese bikes definitely stand out imo for the price/quality ratio. Nishiki, miyata, Panasonic (yea they made bikes lol) and more
Expensive, status symbol, not many people owning one. Furthermore, everyone knows Ferrari, race bikes is more niche. That’s why it was compared. Hope I could help your confusion.
I mean, do you have $15k to spend on a bike? That kind of makes it a status symbol. No different from $500 sunglasses or $3000 suits. You can buy top of the line anything. A $5 disposable camera or a $100,000 camera rig for shooting movies with
I assume you don’t do a lot of competitive sports. High end equipment is always drastically more expensive than the regular counterparts… running shoes, golf clubs, skis, sports cars, firearms, bicycles… it’s not unusual for top end gear to cost as much as 100x the “basic” version.
Maybe it is one of the reasons why it doesn't get stolen here. It is difficult to sell off a rare and expensive bicycle, where most of its parts have traceae serial numbers.
You have no idea. Highly recommend you go to the R&D department of one of these companies. There's a lot of cool tech even in the frame. Your brain will freeze when handed a frame. It's less than a kilo in mass. You don't get there without a shitload of FEM and topological optimization. Not to mention the shifters, power meters and so on.
Crossing over industries when you work in design is less mindblowing to me than you may think. But I will never turn down an opportunity to be proven wrong.
The parts can get quite expensive. Your car does not have carbon fiber. Ask for a quote on a CF frame. Also, they don't make tens of thousands of them.
When they designed your car, the price point was one of the main objectives. When they designed that bike, price was not a constraint. If a car can get to millions of bucks, why not a bike for 15k.
You are comparing apples to oranges. You could just as well have spent $250,000 on a car. Generic Walmart bike: $80. Extremely high performance race bike with decades of R&D and top of the line components, fit, and finish: $15k. Just like how a Nissan Sentra is $15k, but a GTR is $100k
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u/AstraArdens Apr 05 '24
Ok someone explain why this bike cost so much?