With all respect to your wife's taste in jewelry, I just can't get past the fact that people question spending a few thousand dollars on a complex and immensely useful machine like a bike, but don't bat an eye and spending that kind of money on a few grams of stone and metal that has no moving parts and offers no function beyond being an accessory. What a wild society we are a part of!
I would just counter that this is what a bike costs if you want dependable, quality parts made by fairly paid people - and that in the long run, it'll be a good deal, because it's made to last. (Plus it has super high resale value but I prefer not to think about selling!) On Monday, 28 June 2021 at 08:32:29 UTC-7 Kushan wrote: > Thank you all for the interesting perspectives. Keep'em coming. > > I agree that how we spend the money is our business and don't need > validation from anyone else. However things always get interesting in a > family like mine with boundary issues when it comes to cost of things (the > first things my uncles, aunts, and cousins asked me when we got our first > home or get a new job was "how much?" :) ). > > I think the biggest surprise for me was that there was the lack of similar > to my wife's similarly priced jewelary. As a culture, we have accepted cost > of things like cars, vacations, jewelry, fancy dinners. Even the simple > analysis will concede that you get a lot of value out of a good bike. But > most people,, unless you're a cyslist yourself, still think of bikes as > kids plaything (as opposed to a form of recreation or transportation) and > so anything above $1k triggers a reaction. > > On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 7:50:37 AM UTC-7 aeroperf wrote: > >> >> The only people who have ever asked the price were fellow bicyclists. >> They usually preface the question with “Nice bike!” >> I note that most ride carbon frames, and don’t bat an eye because their >> bikes typically cost more. >> And I only think they asked because they recognize that it is a modern >> lugged steel bike. >> >> It is an interesting point, however. I’ve become well acquainted with >> the owner of an LBS, who has an RB-1. >> His comment - “The boomers come in here and drop 2, 3, 4 grand on a >> bike. They want carbon. They want Ultegra. I’m glad to sell it to them, >> if I have it.” >> >> Well-meaning loved ones know that I owned a Lotus 7 sports car for 30 >> years. “I sold the Lotus and bought a bike” would suffice. >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/fd8d8289-dfdd-4d42-aa43-e0d90996fa46n%40googlegroups.com.
