Podcast: Why Do $10,000 Mountain Bikes Exist?
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this episode we discuss who is buying really, really expensive mountain bikes and what they mean for the industry and for our sport as a whole. What’s it like to ride one of these magical, knobby-tired unicorns? Listen in to find out!
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| 0:21.8 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today it's Mead. Until the 2nd of February. From 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst dots last. Hey, everybody. |
| 0:22.7 | Welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | Today, it's me, Jeff, and I'm here in the studio with Greg and Aaron. |
| 0:29.5 | And we're going to be talking today about $10,000 mountain bikes, |
| 0:33.3 | or in other words, really, really, really expensive bikes. |
| 0:37.9 | Basically, we're kind of drawing the line on super expensive bikes at around $10,000, but I'm sure you can find some that cost more or less that are within that range. |
| 0:48.6 | But anyway, you know what we're talking about. |
| 0:50.4 | So we did a survey a little while back asking mountain bikers, a lot of mountain bikers, |
| 0:56.3 | what they thought a high-end mountain bike should cost. And based on that information, we found |
| 1:02.1 | the average for most people was about $3,500. So when we're talking about $10,000 bikes, this is like |
| 1:09.3 | three times as much as what most people would |
| 1:12.3 | consider a high-end mountain bikes. So these are the super elite, super rare bikes. I want to start off |
| 1:18.2 | by asking you guys to talk about what bikes in this range are available out there. Like how common |
| 1:24.1 | are $10,000 plus mountain bikes? |
| 1:30.3 | I would say surprisingly common. |
| 1:38.6 | You know, when we first started doing some research on this topic, I thought I'd have a more difficult time than I did finding $10,000 bikes. |
| 1:45.4 | True $10,000 bikes are, yeah, there's a bunch of them out there, but, you know, the $8,000 bikes you can find all day long, which is kind of crazy. |
| 1:49.0 | But yeah, some of the examples I found, some of them, you know, like downhill bikes, like |
| 1:52.7 | the Trek session, their top flight, you know, World Cup Ready, downhill bike is $10,000. |
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