Originally Posted by
daihard
Okay. I assumed the "cost" included the purchases of those items that last long (including the bike itself). You may not need to replace a repair stand for a long time, but if you didn't own a bike, you probably wouldn't own the stand either. Same can be said about bike gear, which tends to be expensive. I don't plan on buying new jerseys every year, but they are still consumable items.
And that's OK. Just that you need to depreciate the cost over the life of the equipment. So if you spent $250 on a stand that should easily last 20 years, this would work out to an additional $1.04 a month. And $850 bike depreciated over say 15 years would be about $4.75 a month.