After my wife blurted out how much my bike cost to my mom, I tried explaining that what I have is the pinnacle of bicycles. I attempted to explain it in car terms: “This is the Ferrari of mountain bikes; it doesn’t really get any better than this.”
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I'm not sure if my explanation worked.
I realize I’m preaching to the choir here, but modern bikes are truly incredible. While it’s true, bikes can be expensive, what is also true is that they’re one of the only sports that physically move you (quite quickly in fact) where you can own top-level equipment that's sometimes even superior to the professionals. While the pros at the pointy end of the elite field might get custom paint jobs, the equipment they’re on is often the same as you can purchase and ride yourself.
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Where else can you purchase, or build up, a machine that is equal to, or even better than what paid professionals are using? The cars, trucks and motorcycles used by professional drivers and teams cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that doesn’t even begin to take into consideration all the one-off, custom trickery these machines often employ either.
Sure, a skateboard, rollerblades or a scooter (is there such a thing as a pro scooterer?) cost less, but their usage and range is somewhat limited. Plus, none of those multiply your human power as efficiently or can take you up and down hills or skimming over dirt and rocks through the woods very well.
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