Off topic: I was at my brother's house and his mother-in-law was staying with them. She kept asking me about my Cervelo. How much it cost, etc... I thought it was rude, and I gave vague answers (it was more than my first car- a 1982 Honda Prelude, it's less than replacing my roof). I had just gotten mad because I was cleaning it, and it fell and scratched the heck out of the front fork (something they all said I could fix with nail polish ). Finally I decided that if you're rude enough to ask, I'm going to shock the heck out of her. I told her it was about $3K and her jaw dropped. Then I said that some of my friends buy a Starbucks coffee every day, and at the end of the year they've spent as much on coffee as I've spent on my bike and that at least I have a bike in my hands at the end of the year (she smokes a couple packs a day- so the coffee comment was really an underhanded attempt at pointing out how much money she blows on cigarrettes with nothing to show for it at the end of the year but ruined lungs).
I used to hate telling people how much my bike things cost (strangers I won't tell- but family/friends are another thing). Now I figure- if you're rude enough to ask- I'm going to be rude enough to answer. And since to them a $200 bike is a lot of money- I'll up the shock factor by telling you what it really costs to buy an good entry level bike, and what I spend on my hobby. Don't ask if you don't want to know. I don't ask how much your recent vacation to the Virgin Islands cost, or how much money you spent on that great boat, so don't ask about my bike.
Sorry: rant over.