Originally Posted by
TroN0074
Thank you man, some very valuable input you got there, I appreciate the sarcasms and I hope you do too. Back to the point, at least you wont denied that some stuff for bicycle are way over priced. Sure I am glad I paid for my two dynamos + two set of Busch & Muller from and rear lights. That is money well spent if you ask me. But paying $40 for a seat post? or $50 for replacing cable for the rear break, which I did a while back and that didn't even include new casing for the cable because the old was reused.
That is kind of crazy. By pure coincidence I replaced mine last night. Along with the the front brake cable, rear DR cable, housings, hoods and bar tape. I think everything listed cost me about $20 total.
My yearly costs are about the same as FB's, $100-$200 per year on 5k-6K miles and that includes splurges on stuff I don't really need.
What I'm trying to get across is that complaining about a $40 seat post while paying someone a premium to replace a brake cable is incongruous. I don't look down on people who choose to pay, but you can't complain about your own choices.