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I'm discounting things like limited runs, one offs or dumb shit like just gluing a lot of diamonds to one here and that arrives you at this, curiously all at about ~15.000€ give or take

  • Pinarello Dogma F Disc Super Record
  • Specialized S-Works Epic 8
  • Coffee Bike

To be fair I can't find a price for the coffee bike without the espresso maker and assorted equipment but you can just buy one of those

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

~15.000€

not-built-for-this I cycle because I don't want to pay car prices for things, who the hell is this for?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Triathlete dentists

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

wannabe tour de france weirdos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those bikes better give me a fucking, a delicious meal, and some wine with that price point

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does the coffee bike allow you to grind coffee beans by pedal power like a mayapedal.org model?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yo that's sick as fuck, thanks. It does not to my knowledge which makes it the inferior product, albeit none of the ones I posted are something to buy unless you're the type of persion to have funded Uwe Boll movies anyways

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what if i have a really good plan for insurance fraud?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

like with these bikes or to attain them? Because I guarantee you unless you're in the Tour de France and doing EPO or whatever the dirtmunchers equivalent to that is you're gonna realize all your goals on a 1500 eurodollar bike just fine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no i want the stupid expensive thing but for "free"

buy bike + insurance

"lose" bike off a cliff into a lake

suspiciously similar looking bike in the bed of my friend's truck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but then you'd still be out of ~15.000 eurodollars for two of these dumb things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

dunno if it's different where you live, but the last time i had to claim an insured loss they just gave me money and my circumstances were such that a replacement didn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to say that there has been too little look at price inflation and in particular shrinkflation in the cycling community.

When SRAMs cheapest MTB gearset was GX, you could get an affordable bike with it, but then they created NX and eventually SX which are worse gearsets, but prices for those entry level bikes remained the same. Hell, I just looked now and they've made an even cheaper gearset, the S1000. Looking at the MTB I purchased just before COVID, the same money that got me GX Eagle will only buy S1000 now.

kiryu-pain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do recommend looking into Microshift for due to this. They make genuinely good drivetrains and you don't pay for the brand name of fucking SRAM or Shimano as of yet. Plus they still manufacture SIS compatible parts after shimano decided that shit was too consumer friendly and remixed it all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hey this is super neat. I hadn't heard of Microshift before so I'll definitely scope them out. Much appreciated!

sicko-biker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ok but what's the most expensive off the shelf knife-sharpener bike (whistle not included)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nevermind here's my answer, ruined my joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Really digging the colour here, damn that's nice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

OK, but that Pinarello looks light as fuck. I just need a better bike and my times will go through the roof

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you never heard of drillium frames?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

No, I haven't. The fanciest I know of are Carbon and Titanium. I'll need to look them up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Pinarello looks positively diseased with that downtube. Ride up grades, not upgrades

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think it looks like that so you can get the matching bottle cages that slot in and make it Even More Aero. Completely undone by the physic of the 50 year old dentist riding it though