Originally Posted by
vespasianus
Some bike prices from 2001.
What I find interesting is not that the bike frame prices are cheap - the highest one is about $3200 today -but the weight of the bike frames and the overall weight of the bikes. Frames have gotten much lighter but components must have gotten much heavier to make up for the weight difference we see today.
That $4700 top of the line Trek in todays dollars = 8k.
Todays top of the line Trek = 13k+/-.
The Look and Pinarello have an even bigger delta... way out pacing standard inflation.
And you could probably say that the CF manufacturing process back then was more expensive - new design and development, probably less automated... the Trek was probably hand made in the USA,, the Pinarello hand made in Italy... Look bikes hand crafted in France... not anymore.