Some aspects of cycling can be outrageously expensive, depending upon what you want to do.

You can still find frames at the tip or in thrift shops and build them up into decent bicycles to do things like ride centuries and longer distances, to use for commuting, and even for touring.


In the part of Canada where I most recently lived, the majority of the cyclists I saw on the roads were tradies dressed in jeans, carrying a battered lunch box and metal thermos, and riding very squeaky department store bicycles.