DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
A lot more by what measure? It's not cheap to engineer and build something that weighs 25 lbs (and often a lot less, my Gunnar is about 23 lbs) but can tolerate the punishment a cyclist doles out bouncing through rock gardens for several years. Some bicycles have darn near the suspension travel of a 250 at 20% of the weight. A full-on downhill rig will have 8 to 10 inches of travel and weigh 40 lbs. A motorcycle uses mostly standard grades of steel welded together pretty basically while high end bicycles are built from lots of carbon fiber and titanium and the components are heavily machined and forged (crank arms for example are often hollow forged) and can be quite intricate. The tolerance on a 11-speed shifter is thousands of a millimeter since the gear-to-gear spacing is 1.85mm.$1500 buys you a lot more motorcycle than it does bicycle. That's dumb.And it's probably why I have 4 two wheeled motorized vehicles and only one human powered one
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