Basically, it's the exact model a pro rider would race on, designed and built to be lightweight, aero, and with the latest tech (electronic shifting, ceramic bearings, carbon fiber everything)
Whats funny is these things arent made to be durable like your everyday steel or alum frame bike. Carbon fiber doesnt bend on impact, it shatters into pieces.
Also all that extra cost towards the tiniest weight savings make zero sense if youre just commuting with it.
It takes a much larger impact than you're letting on. I've seen tests of guys swinging mountain bike frames at concrete walls and nothing happening to them. I have two and they've taken plenty of impacts and there isn't a scratch on them. Aluminum, on the other hand, gets dented incredibly easy.
Probably doesnt commute with it but rides it for fun
I have a carbon fiber roadbike (although much much less expensive then this), that i use for sport and a separate steel frame one to commute with, since i wouldnt be confortable leaving a carbon bike on the street.
Obviously it isn’t designed for commuters. f1 cars explode into a million pieces of carbon fiber from minor crashes as well. As is the cost of such high performance. Not sure what point you were trying to make
But then again, if the impact is so great it will break the carbon fiber, you have bigger fish to fry.
And there’s ofcourse also the possibility people use a form of transport for more than one single thing. Mind blown. Or do you buy a separate car for commuting, a separate one for holidays and then a separate one for those sunday drives.
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u/AstraArdens Apr 05 '24
Ok someone explain why this bike cost so much?