SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Should it not be the other way? If i was to spend 5k i would think i would have a lot more pleasure with it should last a life time whereas something with a petrol engine in it costing 5k would only last a few years,cost more to maintain and be nothing more than a means of transport?
Once you get above the most basic quality level of any item, where there are major compromises made, there is very little direct relationship between price/quality/pleasure factors. If people bought one super-quality version of some object and then kept it forever, I might agree with your reasoning. But they generally don't - and "serious" cyclists are the worst lot going for incessantly chopping and changing from one very expensive bike to another very expensive bike just because something has appeared in a different colour scheme or with one minor component change to last year's model. The marketing people who work for the manufacturers must laugh long and loud at just how easily they can persuade people to buy a brand new version of something they already have a perfectly good example of, every year or two.
On the plus side though, all this fickle consumerism does keep the secondhand market supplied with stock to choose from.
I do know one thing though; the bloke driving his £5k car is a hell of a lot warmer and drier and more comfortable whilst travelling about in the crappy weather we've been getting lately, than the bloke riding around on a £5k bicycle. My view that very expensive bike buyers are getting mugged off remains unchanged.