Thread: Bikes still worth their MSRP?
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Old 08-29-16 | 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by clubman
This thread is useless without an agreed rate of inflation, I think. I see up to 30 % diff in calculators, punch in $240 from 1970
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I went Dept of Labor Statistics. Your first link.
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