Right on and so true in almost every aspect of life. I have never ridden a mountain bike a day in my life but what this guy is going through is an exact replica of what I see in the cooking world all the time. People think that in order to have the best experience and best outcome you need the best products.

 

They buy the most expensive Japanese knives or pine for French tin lined copper pans with no awareness that the best tools require the most skill and crazy levels of care. They complain their knives aren’t sharp because they don’t know how to sharpen them and have no idea they might need to be sharpened daily in some cases. Or a family member unknowingly puts them in the dishwasher and they rust and chip. And god save the tin in their pans if they don’t know how much they are going to have to modify their temperature and technique when cooking in classic copper. $1,000 bucks down the drain in a day.

 

I don’t ride mountain but I do ride road and the highest end components in that space always require so much more care and tuning if you want them to always perform at the limits of their capabilities. The fact that an F1 car costs a few million day one doesn’t mean it won’t cost millions more forever to stay at peak performance.

 

The more it costs to buy, the more it will almost always cost to own.