Originally Posted by
BengeBoy
In other words, a bike that could win the TdF costs about the same as a garden variety Harley Davidson, MSRP.
Heck, the line of porta-potties outside the pressbox at a NASCAR racetrack will cost more than a TdF winning bike.
I guess I don't understand the premise of an article about the cost of a TdF winning bike - they're not that expensive. Unless your readers think of bikes as toys.
This is more of a motorsports mindset, where it is literally true that the more money you spend, the faster you can go. What's different about bicycles is that after a certain point, you can't buy more speed. It's the mind and the motor, not the machine, that matters the most.
Probably not a very appealing notion to the rich, who measure power and status by the cost of their toys. There is no bicycle equivalent of the Bugatti Veyron.