Yeah I don't think pricing/inflation/real dollars is usually really considered all that carefully when people make those comments. As far as I remember - way back into the mid 90s - mountain biking was always super expensive at the high end. Always.
That doesn't mean I think it's ok, nor that I think that 12k for a bike is 'reasonable' per se - value is relative to everyone - but it's easy to cry foul, that doesn't make it true.
March 16, 2021, 3:27 p.m. - Pete Roggeman
Yeah I don't think pricing/inflation/real dollars is usually really considered all that carefully when people make those comments. As far as I remember - way back into the mid 90s - mountain biking was always super expensive at the high end. Always. That doesn't mean I think it's ok, nor that I think that 12k for a bike is 'reasonable' per se - value is relative to everyone - but it's easy to cry foul, that doesn't make it true.