"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
06/24/2015 at 11:04 • Filed to: bikes
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
06/24/2015 at 11:04 • Filed to: bikes | 1
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Then, this S-Works Venge ViAS would be $360,000. How?
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Let’s assume a standard appliance car that everyone has seen in beige, Accord, is the touchstone of pricing your personal transportation. Equal that to a standard transportation sporting road bicycle that is marketed as great but is really just average with average parts bike. That would be $1000 roughly for a good solid corolla of the road-bike world. The Accord is thirty times as expensive so lets put that against the $12,000 of the S-Works Venge ViAS.
$360,000.
So, Is it really the same difference in performance as the Ferrari F-12 Berlinetta? ($323,000...or lease for $5,300/month) Possibly. Can this bike actually be thirty times the value, performance and prestige that an aluminum mid-range Trek bike has? They claim all of their research has gained 5 minutes of time savings over a 40 minute ride. That’s of course when using their helmet, their shoes, their skinsuit, etc as a total package.
Of course you can’t be riding like a feeble and expect to get to work five minutes faster than you usually do. The pro guys racing these bikes will average 25mph over 150 miles. In the big pack (peloton) they will move as a unit cruising at over 30 mph and in the finish line sprint they reach up to 43 mph when dumping 1700 watts to the pedals....ad that’s after they rode 125 miles. So any aero advantage will not only make them move faster when trying to break away and stay away, but also save energy when riding in that NASCAR restrictor-plate-draft peloton.
Notice every single control is internally routed. Electric shifting, fared brake locations, etc.
So, it goes plenty fast, even if the rider is responsible for most of the aerodynamics, every little bit helps. So when the rider has reached his or her maximum ability to be aerodynamic, here is the next step up. If you have $12,000 in disposable income. Just don’t have a fall and crack the frame.
If you want to see it in action, this bike debuts on the Tour De France starting July 4th.
bob and john
> Grindintosecond
06/24/2015 at 11:18 |
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i’ve seen a 17K mountian bike too.
i’ve personally built a couple of 12k bikes. they arent actually as uncommon as youd think. Trek makes them entirely custom (even though they do have diffenet size, you can get one made entirely to your dimensions) and custom paint.
they are pretty cool.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Grindintosecond
06/24/2015 at 11:42 |
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And they will sell the ones they make, that really amazes me. I used to be big in to road cycling and was on a team and had all the latest tech and stuff. I just don’t know how folks aford it anymore. When I started you could buy a legit race bike for $2k (in 2000). My last road bike was a Cannondale Cadd9 with SRAM force and nice wheels, probably $3500 at retail, I’m still ridding it and just can’t justify the next step up to a plastic bike.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Grindintosecond
06/24/2015 at 11:43 |
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12 grand isn’t even the upper limit on bikes these days, but yeah, I’ve always wondered what a car with top tier bike level obsession would cost, but since I started wondering that, we’ve started getting koenigsegg’s and Pagani’s
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Grindintosecond
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/24/2015 at 11:49 |
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This is just the customer available bike. So going customer available cars seemed the right thing to do. Prices go up with any customization bit. Don’t forget there’s some $5,000 wheels out there that would make this bike competition illegal due to minimum weight limits. (15 pounds) There’s more silly things to do if the buyer wanted. This is just the road aero bike as well. Going full on TT bike there’s some ‘spensive things too.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Grindintosecond
06/24/2015 at 11:50 |
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I remember selling a few Trek Madones back in the Lance days. These hyper expensive tour bikes were a dream come true for salesman working on commission.
Wurrwulf
> Grindintosecond
06/24/2015 at 11:53 |
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This is worth more than every car on my street...