Originally Posted by
noglider
Although I said $500 to $1000, I think the $1500 to $2000 range is also reasonable for points of diminishing returns. As we can agree, it's a matter of what you do, what you need, and what you want. The difference between today's bikes and yesterday's bikes is that the "tail" is longer after the point of diminishing returns. It used to be that you could spend twice that point. Now you can spend ten times that amount.
I remember the "twice" that price for top end. That is about when I got the bike, Tommasini, that the Campy components came off to put on the Cannondale. Back then most bikes were steel. For the price that I paide you basically got good components. Going up in price mainly bought you carved lugs and pantogrph engraved components. Fancy stuff that didn't really get you any performance.
When I started looking at bikes again recently I noticed the rather large price for many of them. Hence my original question. So it looks like $1500-2000 or so.
Thanks,
Bill