Originally Posted by
Chombi
Saw a top of the line 6.1 Modone Trek yesterday at one of the better bike shops in the SF bay area and was truly impressed for what it was with it's loads of high tech design, but then I saw the price tag $11.000+!! WTHeck!! I was totally speechless and dumbfounded!. Can eanyone in their right mind even justify the 3 or 4 pound advantage over a good steel framed bike that the $11K buys you with that Madone?? A potential living room display queen for some dude with deep pockets IMHO.
And now to think that the inherent fragility of some CF frames have when subjected to 1.5 inch deep potholes...............I'm fine with my steel bike!
Chombi
84 Peugeot PSV - Cheap, simple, but I love it!
Yeah, well new bike prices are always jaw dropping regardless of the material, want a custom steel frame? Better have 3 grand laying around, once you add your group, wheels and other parts it basically rounds out the same. Didn't someone post some paramount sales brochures from the 70s where you can buy a record equipped paramount for like $300? I guess maybe that was a LOT of money back then. Then again around 1983 someone told me they bought a peaugeot UO-10 or something (or whatever model was a step up from the UO-8 for about that much, ouch!
I'll stick to the $10 recycle center dump finds thank you very much, I can ride em just as far and as fast as the rest!