Popped into a bike shop next to BabysRUs in Exeter (I was allowed 10 minutes light relief from buying overpriced baby stuff by SWMBO!)
Anyway, there was some nice high end stuff, but blimey some kit is getting expensive. Pivot carbon frames for £2300, and I picked up some Bos forks – might have been the Deville 170s – and they were £1050!
This isn’t a rant as such (too little random capitalisation, so sorry), but forks that cost a grand? Really?
I know MTBing is a ‘lifestyle’ sport now, and that well paid, middle class IT managers have cash to splash, yadda, yadda. But it does seem that some prices are getting silly.
Now, I know that some stuff is still well priced, especially as technology trickles down from the top end kit. Also the fact that there are people willing to buy new kit every year or so means that I’m kept in well priced second hand kit.
Thoughts…..? 😉