Originally Posted by
smd4
This simply isn't true, as any inflation calculator will prove. Top-end bikes today are far, far more expensive relatively speaking than, say, top-end bikes from 1985.The price of top end bikes today have far outpaced the inflation rate.
True this: My Peugeot PX10 which was $160 in 1970 would be $1,300 in today's dollars. The Masi Gran Criterium, which was the bike I really wanted but couldn't afford, was $275 in 1970. That would be a bit over $2,200 today.
Brent