Originally Posted by
BCRider
. Two glaring examples is that you do NOT need to pay as much as you picked out for a perfectly decent cassete or for tires and tubes.
Lemme back that up with an example. OP has
$ 57 Shimano 10 spd cassette
SRAM PG 1050 for $35 shipped?
And I think the CST Caldera Pro is a decent enough tire for less than $20 each. So OP had ~$137 for cassette tires and tubes. There's no reason OP can't get that down to $82 for cassette ($35) tires ($40) and tubes ($7).
That's a 40% swing right there.