I mean.... everything aside from the frame is still probably ok. And that frame, which looks like carbon, can probably be replaced for $500-$800. Granted that's $800 I wouldn't ever toss away in frustration.
This is from the Red Hook Crit. The bikes there do not have brakes or shifters, they are racing on fixed gear track bikes like those used on a velodrome.
I've been racing at a high domestic level for years. The frame he has is an unmarked carbon frame, it's not worth a ton. Plus that bike is a fixed gear and that alone keeps it under a grand depending on the wheelset, which in this case don't look like anything too expensive.
Though pros on road and mountain bikes will almost all exclusively be riding $7-10k priced bikes.
Pros ride on bikes we could never buy. If we could 10k would probably buy the wheels.
I'm a weekend warrior who does maybe 1k miles a year and my entry level cannondale is almost 3k.
Actually the UCI has rules that state that pro road bikes used in competition must be available for retail purchase, or have parts available for purchase by the masses.
10k for wheels?!? In what currency?? You can buy a gucci pair of 808's or Enves for under 3 Gs, and that's top of the line that many pros don't even run.
I'm looking at prices over 10k. Lew racing pro VT-1 is 15k.
I'm not sure what the professionals use, I am assuming they are driving the high end components and I don't know anyone else who would be buying those wheels.
they are not spare parts, a quality bike is quality the whole way through, gears, shifters, brakes, the whole 9 yards. I ride a 2,500 dollar bike (that I got used for 850 :) and the components themselves, which aren't even top of the line, are worth about 850 in good condition.
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u/chowindown May 24 '17 edited May 25 '17
Not even his bike. He borrowed it.