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Originally Posted by serialk11r
Holy smokes dude, get a cheaper bike? Or is Australia just expensive like that?
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Australia is probably about twice as expensive as the US for things like bikes, although the internet is helping level things out. It was a Trek 1400 road bike which is a fairly low end model. The original wheels only lasted about six months, it's the sandy soil that really kills them when it rains. An old school steel rimed bike with basic gears could plow along with minimal attention, but these days there isn't much steel anything in a bike shop. Nothing on that bike was especially reliable so it was always upgraded when it failed. I always run good tyres (for safety and puncture resistance) and even just that costs about $80 ea for about 3-4,000km. Car tyres are much cheaper per km.