very very true...and when you consider that if you commute by bike ...think of busfare and gas you're not spending
but if it gives you joy every time you look at it and ride it then it's a great investment On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 3:43:30 PM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > On 12/12/2016 04:29 PM, masmojo wrote: > > Speaking for myself I find that if I try to satisfy that itch for the > really expensive thing I want, with something good, but not what I want. > Inevitably, I am still not satisfied and eventually I will plunk down the > money to get what I want! Cheaper just to bite the bullet in the first > place. > > Also, if you really love something, chances are others will too, so > that thing you bought and used extensively, will retain or even appreciate > in value while you use it! $1,600. Appaloosa Vs $1,600 trek, in 15 years > which do you think is going to be worth more!? One guess! 😉 > > > > The way you really win is to stay with it. Over a 10 or 20 year > ownership period, the annual cost of a really, really nice bike becomes > reasonable or even downright cheap when compared to the cost of constant > churn, replacing a mid- or low-level bike with another one every couple > of years. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
