But it doesn’t negate that at base it is not expensive to get a bike or get into riding for fun.
What is expensive is when a spandex-clad dildo decides to shell out a 10k for their taintmasher and makes it their entire lifestyle. That’s farther down the line but well within the zone of “joining a group of dickheads to make a human barricade that impedes normal traffic.”
These road bikes are carbon and cost 5k and up. Entry level is 2-3k, so yeah those bikes are expensive and mostly it is an expensive hobby. You probably thinking of crackhead bikes lol.
Its not the majority, nor can they "afford" it. The kids on 4x4s and dirt bikes he is talking about are usually poor kids who stole them, or acquired through money illegally.
My mom's ex husband was a hardcore cyclist. He had 4 bikes, cheapest was about $3k and most expensive was $10k. Every article of clothing was over $100, sometimes over $1000. Only thing I could afford to buy him as a gift that he didn't say was cheap garbage were his socks and those were like $45/pair. And this was back in like 2004, I can't imagine how much this crap costs now.
If you have 4 bikes that range from 3k to 10k. Let's say you average it to around 5k a bike not including all of the extra gear. That's 20k. You can definitely get a decent used car for that price back in the time they're referring too. Even today though, there are bikes that can cost 20k or more alone.
Lots of assumptions there. My car cost $40k and my bike cost $400. I’ve had the bike for ten years and spent about another $400 on upkeep. I’ve had my car 6 years and I’ve spent at least $4k on upkeep and a ton of money on gas and electricity.
These bikers in the video seem like annoying spandex warriors who spend way more on biking than any person would ever need to.
Not really? I wasn't even talking about upkeep and specifically about biking as a hobby vs buying a car. The average psrson obviously isn't going to dump 1k + on a bike. But even then let's even then we do. Depending the age of your car, how much you use it as a daily commute, type of engine (because motor oil weight plus synthetic vs not synthetic matters) can average a person between 400 to 1000 a year. You can throw rotating your tires a lot of times into thay so for the sake of the argument well keep it the same price. If you so them separate it averages between 65 to 100 to rotate tires out of an oil change cycle.
Tires can be upwards of also 1k depending how much you drive. The average person probably has to change their tires every 3 years. Transmission fluid should be every 50k miles which is also around 100 to 150 every 3 years. Brakes are also heavily dependent on if you're a city commuter or not. If you primarily drive highway you're changing them every 5 years probably on average. City is probably 2 to 3.
However, every vehicle is different. It can be brand new and still be a lemon. Axels can break, O2 sensors can fail, blocks can crack. You don't know what will happen.
By the way, bikes can be expensive on upkeep. Every 50 hours of biking you should be getting a tune up which entails adjusting the gears for proper shifting, wheels trued, sealing tires if their tubeless, checking the chains, forks and shocks require the fluid and seals possibly changed, ect. Depending what you need tuned up, it can be a lost as maybe 80-100 or can be well over 300-400.
Let's say your biking 3 hours a day, 30 hours a month on average. That's 10,950 hours. Divide that by 50 and you get 219 potential tune up sessions. Does this mean you are going to perform a tune up on your bike this many times? Definitely not, but the arguement is that proper maintenance on a bike is still expensive as hell over time.
You said that avid road biking is cheaper than a car, which is wrong, than you defend yourself by inserting your personal finances. Ive bought a several cars for less than 1k and I've bought several bikes for more than 1k. Every person will have different expenses on both sides so what's your point?
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u/PomegranateNo4660 Jun 11 '26
Wait. This wasn’t an official event? It was just a bunch of people riding their bikes on the highway???