
avnetguy
Audioholic Chief
There you go ... and only you can answer if you'll really ride it for 10+ years.So at $1000, I'd need to have this bike for 10 years for it to amount to $100/year not counting upgrades, repairs, maintenance, etc. Then I'd have to feel like I got $100+ worth of riding out of it over those 10 years (hopefully more).
Just did a quick estimate on my riding over the years (only get 5-6 months a year, never ride in winter), best conservative guess is I have about 20,000kms on my Kona. So that works out to less than 3 cents per km. I did trade off some riding for running due to time constraints in the mid 2000s as you "generally" get the same workout in less time.