An entry level new bike, that is agreeable to ride, not dragged down by antiquated standards like QR, that you won't regret buying, nor immediately feel the urge to swap out half the components because of cut corners, cost approximately USD $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).

Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).

How does that make /n/ feel?

>>2036140 (OP)
>How does that make /n/ feel?
Patriotic. The whole point of the tariffs is to bring production back home, sure the entry level bike market is going to suck but after a while, we'll have American made bikes that'll compete in value with overseas counterparts. If an economic downturn is in order, realize that every economic downturn has been a socioeconomic boom for bikes. I'm not worried

>>2036143
More like a few bloated nepo companies will dominate the domestic market, failing to make even the feeblest attempt to upgrade their manufacturing/technology/production lines because of the guaranteed captive market, basically what Schwinn did to us in the 20th century before Barron Schwinn the 3rd and Eric Schwinn, Jr. finally nosedived the cash generator into oblivion due to incompetence and complacency.

>>2036147
Early Schwinn was mega based tho

>>2036157
So in the short run, we'll just have Trek and Specialized except more expensive, and in the long run, we can expect Crust and Rivendell tier, comically expensive antiques to rule the market, because that's all anyone will be able to buy (though most of us won't be able to buy any physical goods because we'll be paying most of our X Money for our VerizonCaremarkWalgreens by Amazon Prime Neuralink plan, which disables the 5 minutes of unskippable ads every hour that poor people get beamed directly into their brains)

>>2036140 (OP)
>smaller independent brands
importing xianmen openmold frames
I dunno, not a huge loss to my eye tbqh

>>2036140 (OP)
Dont care at all. Im ready to spend 5k on a bike and have so in the past.
If you want budget bikes you can still get some great secondhand stuff.
I currently build up a sub 500€ gravelbike with disc brakes and a 1x setup.

>>2036178
>€
Are you saying you'd be happy to spend 5k eurodollars for a bike that is, by present-day standards "worth" 1500 eurodollars, for no particular reason other than to pwn some libtards in the United States, a country which you presumably do not live in?

If not, what's your country's tariff situation because it seems like a total non-sequitur given that the op's context is US Dollar consumers and importing materials/components from specific countries.

>>2036181
oh and before you "durrr trade wars spread", I am asking about the circumstances on the ground in your actual country, as they relate to the final price paid by you compared to a year or two in the past. Not snide references to wikipeida

>>2036181
>for no particular reason other than to pwn some libtards in the United States, a country which you presumably do not live in?
Yes. How frequently do you buy bikes anyways? I just buy a new one like onve every 2 years. 3,4,7,9k? Who tf cares? I certanly dont.

>>2036187
>actually it's ok to spend thousands of dollars more for no reason because it's only every few years, are you poor?
I certainly will be if I take that attitude towards everything I buy. My mistake for thinking there was a possibility you weren't just trolling

>>2036140 (OP)
Faggots like you are the reason people say they're not cyclists. :DD

>>2036194
If you loudly announce you hate cycling enough times, maybe the cagers will think you're a cool cager like them

>>2036140 (OP)
Makes me feel glad to keep riding used bikes

Trump is going to buy Taiwan

>>2036236
>trump is going to give taiwan to the PRC to show gratitude after Xi compliments his toupee
ftfy

I'll just leave this here

>>2036143
Let's check in on how this post aged a year from now

>>2036140 (OP)
>>2036143
>Patriotic
>>2036173
>long run
Dumb USAian. If Trump truly wanted production back, he'll give incentives to making stuff local FIRST, then do tarrifs at the last step. Doing tariffs first does NOTHING for manufacturing. Horse before cart, dude.

>>2040643
Actually it tilts the playing field to favor the largest manufacturers who have access to capital, and it also helps out small businesses in countries that aren't tariffed so hard, like Russia, so we can thank him for helping small struggling Russian businesses and also keeping our large cap holdings from dropping too much

>>2040643
listen libturd you dont need a horse to pull a cart. itll just go ok. trust the plan

>>2040643
The real problem is that corporations make moves through projected profits first, with the way the rest of the world undercut our local manufacturing, it was economically unreasonable, maybe even unfeasible, to move production back without disruption.

>>2036178
good morning saar

>>2036143
>recession is good actually
I hate you

>>2036140 (OP)
The new posideon x is pretty good to go honestly. And it's only $1k

Copy and pasted from website

Frame
6061 Double Heat Treated Aluminum. Lifetime Warranty.

Seat Post
27.2 Alloy Seatpost

Fork
Full Carbon

Weight
22.5 lbs.

Shifters
Microshift Sword

Pedals
Microshift Sword

Handlebars and Stem
Tires
700 x 40 Continental Terra Trail Tires. Tubeless compatible.

Brake Levers
Microshift Sword

Wheels
700c thru-axle wheels, tubeless compatible, sealed cartridge bearing hubs.

Rear Derailleur
Microshift Advent X

Bottle Cage Boss
3 on the size Small, 4 on sizes M, L, and XL.

Brakes
Tektro MD-C550 (Compressionless Housing)

Crank
110 BCD Shimano Asymmetric External Cup Crankset. 38t narrow-wide chainring.

Disc Rotor
160mm 6-bolt

Chain
KMC X10

Bottom Bracket
68mm BSA External Cup Sealed Cartridge Bearings.

Cassette
11-48 Microshift Advent X (steel)

>>2043715
>cable dicks
inb4 the cable dick victim support movement dogpiles me and says it's better than rim (no it's not and it never will be)

cable dick bikes exist so that manufacturers don't have to maintain a whole other production line for rim framesets and rim hubs and rim rims and instead they can just foist barely usable garbage on price sensitive consumers who think they can just upgrade later without forking out $1000 on cope

>>2043723
You again
I have a friend who toured from Alaska to Argentina on cable dick. I have been riding cable dick for the last year, bought hesitantly from all your curses upon the product.

And you know what? You're fucking wrong!! It CAN be an ass braking system, it can also be fine. Fuck you bitch! Give it a try sometime, you might be surprised how acceptable they are.

And it might also blow your mind that some people prefer mediocre disk brakes to good rim brakes. But you're just going to say that's the market telling them what to think. And you might be right some of the times, but maybe also you're gay?

>>2043729
>And it might also blow your mind that some people prefer mediocre disk brakes to good rim brakes
No, it doesn't surprise me at all that some people will rationalize their bad purchases by pretending to prefer it. It's like how loonix people will rearrange their entire world view and claim that they prefer clicky poppy audio that randomly stops working because it's "free as in bird" which is better than "free as in beer", drivers shitting themselves builds important skills like blind copy/praying command line shit from stack overflow, "no one needs Excel", and half the video hardware on the market is simply unsupportable

Except that there is a grain of truth in some of the linux nonsense whereas there is no truth whatsoever about the cable dick cope, please just admit you made a mistake

>>2043741
Fuck are you on about man

Suck my balls man I have rim brake and disk brake bikes. I don't know of rim brake bikes that fit 3 inch tires, let me swap to 700c from 650b, and remain serviceable in the field. All while being cheaper than a modern rim brake alternative, and more sensible than upgrading an old rock hopper or whatever.

What do you expect people to do, in any case? They don't make decent rim brake big-tire bikes anymore. Also there's always some kind of compromise with drop bars, either deal with cantilevers, use a travel agent with v brakes, or buy mini v's and have no rim clearance. I have tried all three, and compared to just using dick it's give or take. At least with dick I can drop the wheel easily and have no concern if my wheel bangs out true 1mm. I don't pretend that on average rim brakes don't feel "nicer" than average cable dick. But to also act like there is absolutely 0 reason someone should choose it over canti posts is silly. You just have such a ridiculous attitude that of you buy cable disks you will immediately EXPLODE and die.

>>2043796
>What do you expect people to do, in any case
You mean if you want big tires? Get the dick brakes. Never said you shouldn't? I just said don't buy cable dicks. Big difference.

>>2036140 (OP)
High resolution.

A single speed cruiser at Walmart is $100
>NOOO I CAN'T USE THAT TO RIDE 5 MILES TO WORK THROUGH MY SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD I NEED A $1K ROADIE RACE MACHINE WITH FULL SUSPENSION AND 50 BILLION GEAR DERAILLEUR BECAUSE A 2% GRADIENT ON PAVED ROADS MAKE MY FEET HURT
OP is a smug, detached elitiest and is why everyone hates "cyclists"

>>2044680
>he thinks it was $1k
unracers are funny xd

DOGE'd up supply chains are going to kill off premium tier American bike companies and future cyclists will be stuck paying out the ass for Seka and Winspace products and they'll blame trannies instead of the real enemy because critical thinking skills are now woke

>>2044680
>$1K ROADIE RACE MACHINE

>>2044680
>1K ROADIE RACE MACHINE
cute

>>2044718
>>2044723
Im kinda embarassed to admit that i bought a 7k roadbike and only do like 100km a month on it.

>>2044726
Don't be embarrassed, 30 years from now a NEET will pull it out of a dumpster and claim it's better than whatever futuristic miracle bike will be available for only $250,000,000 USD (equivalent to half an ounce of gold in future money) so think of it this way you're effectively helping some millennial's unborn grandkid experience an unwarranted sense of superiority

>>2044720
Actually, slavish obedience to authoritarians is a good thing

>>2036140 (OP)
>dragged down by antiquated standards
instead you get no standards at all, gg when you need a new axle or brake pad lol.

>>2043723
a pair of mt200s costs 20 bucks and is manufactured in japan so the tariff is not a gorillion percent. a single mt200 costs 10 bucks and that's really all you need, put it on the front and keep the cable one on the back.

>>2048483
>mt200
Shifter's will need to be replaced, dummy.

>>2048483
more like $40 each, so $80 plus what, some friction shifters?

I'm not saying don't do that, just confirming that is what you're recommending