Okay I was looking into a possible new bike with major travel on it. And after looking at the prices I thought, are bike prices going WAY off the deep end and becoming unreasonable? Like Lee Iacocca buying Lamborghini and redesigning the exterior of the Countach and renaming it a Diablo, with the SAME motor and suspension and raising the price tag from $150,000 to $250,000 a year later just for the exterior change that looks cooler... Corvettes are no different...
So are the bike manufacturers who are getting all the bolt on parts like Shimano, etc overseas from cheap labor, ARE they charging way too much for top of the line bikes on their menu today?
We're talking mass production of frames with some companies, yes some are hand made but aren't ALL frames made by hand in some way or another when cut and welded together via a machine shop?
And to ask for example $3200 for a Trek Session 10 or Randall Scott $4,600 or an Intense M3 for $6,000 dollars or over!? I mean c'mon you got to be kidding me!
A Honda CR 125 runs $5000 and a CR-250 runs $5500 with a motor that does 70mph in a couple seconds, has a TEN times better forks and shocks, with ten times better travel, has a LOT more time put into it in production and has components that would cost a HELL of a lot more than ANY mountainbike, so I ask you, aren't bike manufacturers getting a little bit out of touch with reality when they ask $3200 to $6500 or a mountainbike?
Please, post opinions. It's a dicussion, not a bitch rant post so be constructive. I really want to know, is it all just profit greed or justification of the cost. I mean even shipping a Jap bike to American is included in the cost so why the huge bike price tag over the past few years in hikes to exhorbitant prices that make it a joke to buy a bike when you can buy a motocross bike and have twice as much fun and jump a hell of a lot farther and higher.
Does anyone see my point and agree?
So are the bike manufacturers who are getting all the bolt on parts like Shimano, etc overseas from cheap labor, ARE they charging way too much for top of the line bikes on their menu today?
We're talking mass production of frames with some companies, yes some are hand made but aren't ALL frames made by hand in some way or another when cut and welded together via a machine shop?
And to ask for example $3200 for a Trek Session 10 or Randall Scott $4,600 or an Intense M3 for $6,000 dollars or over!? I mean c'mon you got to be kidding me!
A Honda CR 125 runs $5000 and a CR-250 runs $5500 with a motor that does 70mph in a couple seconds, has a TEN times better forks and shocks, with ten times better travel, has a LOT more time put into it in production and has components that would cost a HELL of a lot more than ANY mountainbike, so I ask you, aren't bike manufacturers getting a little bit out of touch with reality when they ask $3200 to $6500 or a mountainbike?
Please, post opinions. It's a dicussion, not a bitch rant post so be constructive. I really want to know, is it all just profit greed or justification of the cost. I mean even shipping a Jap bike to American is included in the cost so why the huge bike price tag over the past few years in hikes to exhorbitant prices that make it a joke to buy a bike when you can buy a motocross bike and have twice as much fun and jump a hell of a lot farther and higher.
Does anyone see my point and agree?
you can't say that on a mountainbike forum.....
... WTF is that!