Originally Posted by
Magmol
I enjoy the challenge of the climb more than anything else. I also don't believe in the advertising hype of new tech. Jeeze we're having to bail out the Detroit dinosaurs because they were depending on advertising to sell OPEC OIL GUZZLING machines that no one can afford to buy or fill up.
May be you all can afford the DS bikes and keep up the suspension maintenance. I can't. I use things up before I buy new. Plus now days you have to go to small pricy builders to get steel or ti bikes.
Has any one else noticed the trend that the bicycle industry is following???? How long before we have to bail out TreK and Specialized because their depending on advertising to sell an overpriced product that no one can afford to buy**********
Just a thought.
you're making generalizations someone could drive a truck through.
you think most of trek and specialized profits are made up from their high end bike sales? uh, no.
*shrug* it's all about choices. i drive cheap car that gets fairly decent mpg, have a fairly cheap laptop. i spend the money on bike stuff instead. my wife is much the same with her car. we don't have cable. we don't bu y superfluous crap, because we'd rather spend the money on a nice dinner out instead. i ride my bike to work and do a lot of errands with it, so that most of my car time is spent getting to and from rides rather than to and from work and around town. i don't buy coffee drinks out somewhere unless i'm using my travel mug.
just because someone is riding a newer/nicer bike doesn't mean they are some consumer *****.
and: a new ride comparable to your old bike there would put it to shame in terms of fork and component performance. no, you don't have to go some custom route to get a nice steel frame these days, but if that's what you'd prefer to think, i'll leave you to that thought. updated fork and component choices on your current frame (yes, when your current parts finally clap out - and yes, they will someday) will be a drastic eye opener. speaking as someone who started riding a ways back, the "new" stuff is not all hype, not by a long stretch.