random thought for today... 105 equipped carbon road bike, name brand, $2k. That's pretty darn good.
Keeping in mind a pair of skis and boots cost ya $2k...
random thought for today... 105 equipped carbon road bike, name brand, $2k. That's pretty darn good.
When you are ready to buy, you ought to at least get on one. Weight is irrelevant to me. But the quality of the ride is shocking in comparison to aluminum. I personally go back and forth as to whether I prefer a good steel bike (which I have two of) or carbon. But especially for a road bike, some days I would choose carbon over steel. I'll be happy if I never ride another aluminum bike again . . .I don't really care about carbon (lots more work to do on the engine before the weight of the bike matters) but I'm itching to upgrade to a roadie with disc brakes after getting the mtn with them.
When you are ready to buy, you ought to at least get on one. Weight is irrelevant to me. But the quality of the ride is shocking in comparison to aluminum. I personally go back and forth as to whether I prefer a good steel bike (which I have two of) or carbon. But especially for a road bike, some days I would choose carbon over steel. I'll be happy if I never ride another aluminum bike again . . .
You can spend over $10,000 on a bike these days without too much effort.
That is more than Honda's best off-road motorcycle - as much as a decent used car.
1st, yes, you can spend 10k on a bike... but you have to get pretty extravagant to do it. It takes a bit of effort.
2nd, a Honda Africa Twin will run 15k to get off a showroom floor
Giant generally offers great value as well (they make a LOT of bikes even for other brands).
You said "offroad" the Trans alp is in their "offroad" catagory. Also, to get a CRF off the sales floor and onto dirt, there will be add-ons. The actual price is going over 10k quickly.
... but who the f cares??? Can you spend 10k on a bicycle? Yes. Do you get much return value over a 5k bicycle? Absolutely NOT. So yes, you can pend 10k, but you start throwing money away after about 6k. You actually NEED to drop 10k on a Honda CRF450 mx bike. Someone spending 10k on a road bike really, really WANTS to spend 10k, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of options with equal performance for dramatically less.