Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I suspect that would be the typical maintenance cost of any relatively lightly used single speed bike, no matter what its purchase price or source.
I know the Walmart bashers/LBS devotees fill BF with posts about how low cost bikes without LBS provenance fall apart in a week, but I believe that is only so much trash talk from people with an agenda.
actually that one of the reasons I wanted to try this ... to see where the sweat spot is. I don't think that a $100/£100/€100 walmart is good value ... but i think $295/£295/€295 is a good price point ... I would imagine that the $£€200-300 range is probably the sweet spot.
i'm sorry that i don't use it more ... but 20km round-trip commuting is kind of standard for a bike commute in europe ... is it not?
as is between 150-200 working days/year?
please consider me at least an average commuter