Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
They are optimized for racing, no question. How they are used by doctors with money to burn... that's a different question. What money restricted amateur racers use... different question. But in the $6k range, yea, racing is the objective. And you'd be surprised how a kid can scrape together enough money to buy a competitive frameset if racing is his or her focus.
It's a different question how the doctors use them, but racing is still their objective? I'm sorry, but that doesn't make a lot of sense. It's self-contradictory.
I don't know, but I'd bet that there are a lot more $6000 bikes used by doctors and other professionals who seldom or never race them, than by kid's "scraping enough money" for a $6K bike to race.
It's a critical question, not sniping, because if there are a lot of $6K and up bikes that seldom see races, then that six seconds that might mean a podium place difference - among enough races - isn't a factor at all in why those bikes were purchased, nor in how they're ridden.