Headshot Posted July 26, 2016 Posted July 26, 2016 I was just saying to my wife how ridiculous MTBing is becoming.... And some people happily pay these prices? I see new bikes with RS1 forks all over the bloody place, next to new top of the line Cannondale and Specialized bikes.. Am I missing something? Am I not earning enough? Do people finance their purchases? I live on the garden route, a MTB Mecca. But sheesh.... I don't know what I'll do when my Scott Spark eventually goes vrot. No ways I can justify the price for a similarly specced bike.It'll begin to feel like living in Cuba... Just maintaining old buggered up bicycles instead of cars. I'm going back to racing Enduro motorbikes. It's cheaper. Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThings have gone crazy. I paid R2 350 in 1994 for a new Giant Hard tail and R15k for a new 100mm XT marathon bike in 2005. In 2013 I paid R25k for a 150mm enduro bike. Then I bought a discount frame for R11k. That still seemed normal, or sort of. Now the bike i'd need to replace mine with to get similar performance is probably north of R70k and its easy to pay R40k just for a frame (Pyga Stage for instance).
Guest dirkieuys Posted July 26, 2016 Posted July 26, 2016 I was just saying to my wife how ridiculous MTBing is becoming.... And some people happily pay these prices? I see new bikes with RS1 forks all over the bloody place, next to new top of the line Cannondale and Specialized bikes.. Am I missing something? Am I not earning enough? Do people finance their purchases? I live on the garden route, a MTB Mecca. But sheesh.... I don't know what I'll do when my Scott Spark eventually goes vrot. No ways I can justify the price for a similarly specced bike.It'll begin to feel like living in Cuba... Just maintaining old buggered up bicycles instead of cars. I'm going back to racing Enduro motorbikes. It's cheaper. Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI have done just that, riding enduro mx bikes again and it's much cheaper. Miss bicycles but I just can't afford it.
Kumps Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 YT Jeffsy AL Comp2 decked out with some cSixx goodies!
AlanD Posted August 7, 2016 Posted August 7, 2016 YT Jeffsy AL Comp2 decked out with some cSixx goodies!Whats the cSixx mudguard like?
Kumps Posted August 7, 2016 Posted August 7, 2016 Whats the cSixx mudguard like?Does the job well of keeping dirt out of your eyes
AlanD Posted August 7, 2016 Posted August 7, 2016 Does the job well of keeping dirt out of your eyes It looks really cool. I want one:-)
Hairy Posted October 17, 2016 Posted October 17, 2016 A friend of managed to have a Capra for the weekend ... what a lovely bike, and the support from the agents to arrange the bike for her to test was excellent. She still wants to look at a couple of other options, but the Capra is no. 1 on the list at the moment.
Piston ZA Posted March 24, 2017 Posted March 24, 2017 End of range sale on at the moment. Some nice deals. Jeffsy AL R30k http://www.goodtimes-mtb.co.za/stock
MTBJD Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 Now with the ZAR strengthening, do you think we will see a price drop in the range? Are we expecting a sale towards the end of March again?
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