"How much did your bike cost?"

[rij73]

Good thread! When I got my first bike last year (a hybrid) and told my mom that it was an inexpensive bike at $400 she almost had a heart attack! So, over the course of a couple of months I told her a lot of what I was learning about bikes and cycling. That way, a few months later when my husband and I invested in road bikes to the tune of $3700 and $1700, she wasn't toooooo shocked.

So far, only my family and cyclists have asked what my bike cost. In both cases I don't mind telling them. My family thinks I'm nuts (not just because of biking), but they can't deny that DH and I way healthier and happier than any of them. Oh, AND we have a $2000 TV which we love watching after a good bike ride.

OTOH, our car is worth about $1000 (and gets 40MPG highway), we live in a small apartment, and don't have any other extravagances (no nice furniture or kitchen stuff, etc.) It's all about priorities. Our first priority is health, our second is our movie and sports watching on tv. Other people are into having a nice car, furniture, art, big houses, whatever... Sometimes I explain it like that to my family and they seem to get it a little bit. They still think I'm nuts, though.