Man of Honour
I remember when you used to like proper bikes with enginesA cheap bike for me is anything around the £1k mark
A £160 'bike' isn't really, it's known as a BSO. Bike shaped object. For pootling around a park at 5mph, or doing a few miles a week it'll be OK. But start riding more, longer, faster, and a better bike becomes needed.
30+ mph downhill on wet tarmac? Yes, I'll take high spec hydraulic disk brakes over some V brakes, or even cable discs. That 600ft, 3 miles climb? Yes I'll take the 9kg bike with light wheels and a light carbon frame over the 15kg 'bike' that most people have sat in their garage. 25mph down trails with baby head size rocks, with a 100ft drop to the side? Give me £1000 suspension forks, a £300 rear shock, £200 worth of brakes, all day long!!
Not saying that people buying a £1000 bike just for commuting to work is overkill, but the chances are they're doing more than just that on them.
If all goes to plan, by the end of this summer I'll have £1400's worth of 9kg gravel bike and £5000's worth of MTB sat in the garage. Worth it? Hell yes.
