Originally Posted by
cubewheels
The cost will even be more if you add spokes, rims, and tires for the airhub wheel build. You do need a separate front wheel for the airhub so you can easily swap it out with regular front wheel for a race or riding with a fast group.
Ofc, for me, I will not even consider it, not for a million years as I can't afford Airhub. I will simply adjust my disc brakes to drag. My brakes doesn't squeal anymore so it's all fine.
Trainers seem like a waste for me. I still have to buy MTB first for sister around the budget of $300 and need to save for that in a couple of months.
I'm going to go on record here saying that I think misadjusting your brakes deliberately is an incredibly stupid idea. Essentially, you're running an experiment on how much abuse they can take until failure.
And you've done a great job of illustrating the idiocy of the Airhub. Essentially, it's a multi-thousand dollar investment to make a multi-thousand dollar bike perform like a $400 (or less) bike. Assuming just for the sake of argument your premise that riding an inefficient bike is beneficial in some way, that's only a reasonable investment if you can't stand the thought of someone seeing you on an inexpensive bicycle.