Originally Posted by
grumpus
Your initial claim was not "better than a big box bike", it was that the majority of people using the Bicycle Mechanics forum ride bikes costing $2-5k. Now I don't deny that some of us do, but I would not claim a majority because I have no basis for that claim and neither does anyone else, despite your enthusiasm for the idea. Likewise I make no claim for the disposable income of participants in the forum, something of which ou spuriously claim knowledge.
If you read enough of the posts around here and view the pics people post of their bikes...Yeah...most of them are the more expensive variety. So I think it's a pretty safe statement.