I hate to come across as difficult here but I just can’t let this go. I just can’t get past putting what in the big picture amounts to a relatively crappy wheel set on an almost $9000 bike. I am an Emerg doc. That means 2 things: 1. I have a very good income and 2. I have no business sense so maybe I’m totally out to lunch with my opinions, and the profit margins on these bikes are in fact razor thin. However I still balk at the price of bikes these days. 9K is a LOT of money no matter what income bracket you come from. I don’t think you should have to think about upgrading your wheels soon when you spend that kind of cash. I have personally had, and seen lots of friends, free hubs on these kinds of wheel sets fail, and usually it makes more financial sense to buy a whole new wheel than to rebuild it, which just seems so wasteful. I find it hard to believe that companies can’t make still make a fair profit by using their purchasing power up front and spending a little bit more to ensure the consumer is getting a decent wheel set on a 9k bike. Nobody should get DT Swiss 370 hubs ever. In fact DT Swiss should stop making those hubs at all but thats a different conversation. Suffice it to say I don’t think putting them on a 9K bike is justifiable.
I worry about the ever increasing prices in this industry. In the last 10-15 years it seems like prices have almost doubled. Its not like peoples incomes have increased at the same rate, making this an unsustainable trend IMO.
Dec. 3, 2020, 12:08 p.m. - Moritz Haager
I hate to come across as difficult here but I just can’t let this go. I just can’t get past putting what in the big picture amounts to a relatively crappy wheel set on an almost $9000 bike. I am an Emerg doc. That means 2 things: 1. I have a very good income and 2. I have no business sense so maybe I’m totally out to lunch with my opinions, and the profit margins on these bikes are in fact razor thin. However I still balk at the price of bikes these days. 9K is a LOT of money no matter what income bracket you come from. I don’t think you should have to think about upgrading your wheels soon when you spend that kind of cash. I have personally had, and seen lots of friends, free hubs on these kinds of wheel sets fail, and usually it makes more financial sense to buy a whole new wheel than to rebuild it, which just seems so wasteful. I find it hard to believe that companies can’t make still make a fair profit by using their purchasing power up front and spending a little bit more to ensure the consumer is getting a decent wheel set on a 9k bike. Nobody should get DT Swiss 370 hubs ever. In fact DT Swiss should stop making those hubs at all but thats a different conversation. Suffice it to say I don’t think putting them on a 9K bike is justifiable. I worry about the ever increasing prices in this industry. In the last 10-15 years it seems like prices have almost doubled. Its not like peoples incomes have increased at the same rate, making this an unsustainable trend IMO.