E: Let’s all talk about what bikes should or shoudn’t cost
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I bought my bike for $800 in 2008 and it has followed me around the country. I’m hoping to add some power to it this summer, lots of life left in her!
Jokes on you, my summer hobby bike (entry level aluminium road bike with drop bars) cost about the same as my commuter (aluminium hybrid with a flat bar).
When your life is N+1, you gotta make smarter financial choices, heh.
I dropped 10k building out my forever touring/commuter bike, but only 1600 of it was the frame. The rest was all higher end components.
Then it got folded around the front end of a car, along with myself. Now it’s over 12k since I had to replace the frame and few other bits and bobs. Thankfully I had good insurance, otherwise after the hospital stay and recovery it’d be closer to $500,000 because America.
But fast it aint. Pretty though.
I’m living in Denmark. When You walk out the door, you have to watch Your step, not to trip on a bike. When it’s windy, the bikes roll around the streets like tumbleweed.
My bike cost half that and is 15 years old.
I love it though.
You pay 1k euros for a 1k bike. I use my tax money to ride a 10k bike to work.
We’re not the same
I think a bike should cost $100
Mine cost like $200
Fixed speed, it’s ok i guess
What is the advantage of fixed speed over variable?
It’s perfect if you hate yourself.
Not much at all, in general they are harder to ride. Especially in hilly places.
There are less gears so that aspect is maybe easier to fix. Slightly lighter due to less gears, but it is only slightly. Maybe other things?It’s a bit like iPhones of old, crossfit, and veganism. You won’t ask about them but the people who use them will tell you about it anyways.
Theyre a lot of fun to ride if you’re not going ip and down alot. The pedals are fixed to the gear so it keeps ‘pushing’ your feet around if you try to stop pedaling without enough resistance, which takes some getting used to, but in general it feels like you have alot more control of the movement of the bike, especially at lower speeds, and since each pedal is always a constant amount of movement forward, it can lead to a very fine feeling of movement and control. Any of those bike dancing videos are done with fixies, as are bike polo games usually. And yeah, theyre significantly easier to maintain and fix.
That bike football sport is very entertaining. They must use fixies. I could watch that all day.
How do you know someone isn’t vegan?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
I think of it more like vinyl. It doesn’t actually sound better, but it’s fun.
Bike moves in concert with you— legs go forward, bike goes forward. Legs go back, bike goes back. Simplifies everything, it feels more like an extension of yourself.
You don’t ever have to wonder if someone
is veganrides a fixie…
I ride a 300 € bike as a hobby in summer. It’s from 2014. Given the highly advanced bike stealing culture present locally, any more expensive bike would need to be smeared with gull excretions for protection against theft. :P
Both camps are right!
Cheap bikes just don’t ride nowhere as nicely nor do they last as expensive bikes do.
BUT! The worst thing about owning an expensive bike is owning an expensive bike.
It’s a thief magnet and source of envy of other riders.
You really need to find a sweet spot between a quality bike and being able to leave it locked in the city without having pangs of anxiety of it being stolen.
Bike recycling is probably the answer. Cheaper, worse looking, but you can often find high quality parts and frames and repair it yourself
I somehow managed to end up buying two used bikes from 1988 and 1990, and after upgrading them with microshift components, I’ve spent only about $400 total.
I have a fixed gear from state that cost a bit over $500 3 years ago.
It’s my beer and dinner fetching machine. I ride it everyday (the longway) to my local store for ingredients for dinner
3 years and 3000 miles later
I have had to replace 2 chains, 3 rear hubs (my own mistakes… check your lockring or blow up a hub), saddle, grips, cog, lockring, Pedals (went from flats to cages and am now on SPD), replaced original brakes with Shimano brakes and have gone through A LOT of tires.
I think I am in it at like $1500… Tools I don’t want to calculate but building and truing wheels is a very relaxing thing to do
Here’s a picture of it loaded up. I think that I was getting ready for a party
Its pretty anti-fixie
Damn that’s a lot of repairs. Maybe my standards are just low, the old bike I had (3x7 gears) I rode for probably somewhere around half the distance you did, and never changed anything (apart from tires and brake pads), and the bike itself was my old dad’s bike that’s more than 25 years old by now. The 7th gear did start skipping pretty hard by the end tho.
Some of the things I replaced for fun
Some things I broke as I am learning to fix bikes (Hubs mainly… when a cog comes off unexpectedly it usually takes the threads with it)
Others just did wear out that fast… last chain only gave me around 1,000 mi but I rode in a lot of rain / mud and used an awful chain lube. (It was well over 1% out of spec and all winter I had a knocking in my pedal that I just couldn’t figure out)
My commute bike was around 5k about four years ago, hitting 20k km this year. Bike was payed for work, not sure if I would’ve gotten one for that price otherwise
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I think you’re both idiots wasting money when you can get a perfectly good bike for like $200?
If you are doing any serious distance and/or are older there is a noticeable difference in comfort and efficiency over $1k. I rode shitty bikes my entire life. When I hopped on a $1500 bike I couldn’t believe how much faster I could go and how comfortable it was. The transfer of energy into forward motion was wild. That being said I bought my bike for $100 off of Craigslist 10 years ago.
10k? 1k? What??? 😂
When I arrived in that country, I bought a 2nd hand bike, for daily commute. I overpaid. A lot.
That bike cost me 300 😅
