Suppose you pay a lot of money for a carbon bicycle, whether road or mountain bike. Your feeling tells you that a lot of money = lots of quality, right? Then you start riding but after a while your feel something wrong.
Or suppose you want to buy a bike through Ebay. Can you be sure that what on the surface looks like a gem is really flawless? Or they crash. Or worse, someone you loaned the bike to crashes but doesn’t tell you. How do you know the frame is still sound? The same applies after tightening the roof-rack clamp of derailleur clamp too tightly. On the surface, everything is OK but in reality the part is broken and only lasts a couple of days.
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3 comments:
Hi Sah,
An eye opening to learn they have that kind of checking mechanism over there, while over here, our only mean is to rely on our eyes and whatever knowledge and experience to help us shopping for bicycles, only to be left at the mercy of the dealers and their sweet words to be sure of what we buy, plus maybe the warranty to believe what we are going to have is HOPEFULLY a genuine thing.
Frame is the most expensive individual part of a bicycle while groupsets and wheels can be more expensive in collective term than in individual. The urge is when you have a bicycle of top range frame you always want it to be equipped with equally top range groupsets, wheels, tyres, etc, either now or when you started to UPGRADE your bike instantly or progressively over time. Nothing satisfies your urge when you're deeply in love with your bicycle.
We all love quality and don't mind paying more for it, but remember, unless cycling is your professional career or quality bicycles will not make holes in your pocket, immerse yourself with bicycle knowledge and plan wisely before you buy, because good bicycles are only a costly Frankenstein.
Zam...I fully agreed with your comment about the urge of upgrading bicycle component especially when you hang out with the 'stylo' riders... It will be hard if we keep upgrading components. Try to stick with our current setup and upgrade or change parts which are broken. Unless, someone is offering you to buy your bicycle component..then there's another good reason to upgrade hehe
Well Sah, actually cannot say lah if we can restraint ourselves from bike's seduction, it is always that the laws of loving bicycles can last a person to stick with one bike the most is 5 years before we fall in for a new one, even when your all carbon hand made Pinarello road bike is still very much healthy. With titanium (Ti) bikes making steady inroad into bike world and bike gears are going electronic, there's always the urge to go to the ultimate.
No matter how much you upgrade your bike, customised and personalised it to your taste, whim and fancy (stylo), comes a time when your bike has to be retired as an old faithful or a vintage or just a scrap in your backyard.
The law of loving bike is all about grooming and truing the bike you ride, that the best bike in the world is always your own bicycle.
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