Originally Posted by Hiro11

I'm sure this is common: my club has more than a few slightly pudgy high income guys in Rapha/Assos clothing who ride brand new store-bought, American brand name ultra high end bikes. These (usually friendly, engaging and overall terrific) guys typically take their bikes back to the shop to fix a flat, forget to lube their Dura Ace chains, have squeaky brakes and start dropping out the back at mile 3 when we're cruising at an easy 20 mph. By mile 10, they're gone: "you guys go ahead, I'll find my way home". This is your typical high end bike buyers in the suburbs.

The idea of dropping ten grand on a bike when you've just started cycling, don't know your size (let alone stack/reach) and feel the need to "test" it by tooling around a parking lot in your work clothes and street shoes for ten minutes strikes me as comical. However, I'm not surprised it happens. In fact, I'll bet it's typical.