Originally Posted by
AdelaaR
I did not deny the truth and my bike costs about the same as yours does.
What I did say is that most people have little to no benefit of bikes costing $2000 or more and that they may just as well get one that costs $1000 and maybe have about 1% of performance difference.
Most people that only ride 10 to 15 mph will even have very little difference between a $1000 bike and a nice $500 bike.
I bought my wife a nice hybrid bike with a complete shimano deore groupset for only $500.
If people want to spend thousands of dollars on a few percents of performance gain that is entirely their choice ofcourse, but the fact that it is so remains.
What makes you think it is solely about performance and average speed
? There are a whole slew of subjective reasons that go beyond your stark analysis of what is a suitable amount to spend on a bike, and what constitites "nice" within this context. What is not a benefit to you, and what you consider to be sufficiently "nice", may not coincide at all with others' personal views on the issue. You cannot force your ideology of what constitutes an acceptable bicycle on anyone else. It is merely an opinion and viewpoint you subscribe to for your own particular circumstances, and is neither right nor wrong. In short, not everyone subscribes to the same parameters.
That is the fact that so remains.