I was going to post this over at the professional side but not too many people read that side so I thought I would post it here where it would get a bit more attention.
I found out today that it now cost more than $42 million dollars a year to finance the top, SKY, professional cycling team! That amount of money is staggering considering that it cost the top Indy Car team $15 million dollars a year to race, about $24 million for a NASCAR team, and there is a lot more people, science, technology, etc in auto racing then a damn bike race! The bottom 25% of budget teams are spending $20 million a year. This is one of the reasons certain brands of bike related parts cost so freaking much...someone has to pay that money back to the corporations and that somebody is US! When you look at how much riders get paid it really isn't much, the minimum rider only gets paid about $36,000 a year, a good lead out man makes about $150,000 a year, and the top 4 riders make on average $2 million a year whereas the top NASCAR drivers make more, so where is all the extra money going in the cycling world of racing if the riders get paid less than drivers and it cost more to have a cycling team then a NASCAR team? The technology in cycling is nothing compared to NASCAR, so I know the money isn't spent there.
https://cyclingtips.com/2015/08/behind-the-scenes-of-the-pro-cycling-business-model/
http://motorsports.nbcsports.com/20...compete-in-formula-one-an-indycar-comparison/
It might be best to stay away from buying bikes that are sponsored by professional race teams so we don't have to pay a certain percentage of the cost of the bike to support that team, but some of it we can't avoid like Shimano, SRAM, and to a lesser degree Campy, all sponsor teams. Just a thought...useless one at that I'm sure! I just found the annual cost of a pro team to be staggering and was overwhelmed by it, I had no idea, my idea was closer to maybe $5 million tops, boy was I ever wrong.
I found out today that it now cost more than $42 million dollars a year to finance the top, SKY, professional cycling team! That amount of money is staggering considering that it cost the top Indy Car team $15 million dollars a year to race, about $24 million for a NASCAR team, and there is a lot more people, science, technology, etc in auto racing then a damn bike race! The bottom 25% of budget teams are spending $20 million a year. This is one of the reasons certain brands of bike related parts cost so freaking much...someone has to pay that money back to the corporations and that somebody is US! When you look at how much riders get paid it really isn't much, the minimum rider only gets paid about $36,000 a year, a good lead out man makes about $150,000 a year, and the top 4 riders make on average $2 million a year whereas the top NASCAR drivers make more, so where is all the extra money going in the cycling world of racing if the riders get paid less than drivers and it cost more to have a cycling team then a NASCAR team? The technology in cycling is nothing compared to NASCAR, so I know the money isn't spent there.
https://cyclingtips.com/2015/08/behind-the-scenes-of-the-pro-cycling-business-model/
http://motorsports.nbcsports.com/20...compete-in-formula-one-an-indycar-comparison/
It might be best to stay away from buying bikes that are sponsored by professional race teams so we don't have to pay a certain percentage of the cost of the bike to support that team, but some of it we can't avoid like Shimano, SRAM, and to a lesser degree Campy, all sponsor teams. Just a thought...useless one at that I'm sure! I just found the annual cost of a pro team to be staggering and was overwhelmed by it, I had no idea, my idea was closer to maybe $5 million tops, boy was I ever wrong.