Well, some people buy $60,000.00 pick up trucks and don't haul anything and never take them off the road. I don't see the difference in that and in buying an $8,000.00 bike, regardless of what it's made out of or if you race or not. A few years ago, I would have thought that anyone spending over what you can buy a bike at Wal-Mart is nuts.

I just bought a new Colnago CF bike, but it's not an $8,000.00 bike and I don't race. I look at it this way! I'm retired and cycling is my addiction. In all the years that I worked, I did without a lot of things that I wanted because I needed to save for the rainy day (retirement). The occupations that I have been in have paid very well, especially the software development jobs that I have worked at over the past 15 years and I have been debt free for the past 10 years. Now that I'm retired and my rainy day has finally come, I realize that I can't take it with me so I might as well enjoy the hell out of myself with whatever I can afford to buy or do. Some people told me that I was nuts to spend $2,000.00 on a custom flame paint job on one of my cars. The car gives me great pleasure showing it at car shows and the bikes I ride give me great pleasure just riding them and they keep me healthy and off the couch. If you can afford it, I don't see anything wrong with spending your money on anything that make you happy.