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>it totally makes heckin sense that a bicycle costs $15,000
>heckin Ducati and BMW motorcycles use heckin old technology (unlike my bicycle)
>its also totally fine that "entry level" road bikes are $7k now, what are you, poor?
is it true that road cycling is exclusively for 40+yo dentists and engineers with disposable income?
also i just dont see where this huge cost hike is coming from.
>3d printed shit costs literal pennies to make
>everything but titanium is cheap to machine (but you can just 3d print that now too even if its brittle and garbage quality)
>probably 90% of carbon and CFRP bikes arent using hand layups anymore, and are probably just shit out by some machine
>"wireless" gears are literally $10 of rebranded and repackaged aliexpress actuators and electronics
how is it that everything is the most expensive its ever been?
