Those aren&#x27;t &quot;casual&quot; bikes.  Maybe you could call them &quot;prosumer&quot;, but really those are ridiculous prices for bikes, that&#x27;s like calling a $300k Ferrari a car for &quot;casual&quot; car fans.<p>You can walk into any decent bike shop in the US now and buy a very nice carbon-frame bike for $2-3k, and a really nice aluminum-frame bike for under $1k.  And these are road bikes BTW, where there simply is no low-end market any more: if you want a low-end bike, you go to Walmart and buy a $100-150 mountain bike.  If you&#x27;re spending more money on a bike than a new economy car costs, that is not even remotely &quot;casual&quot;, and not even &quot;avid&quot; unless you&#x27;re someone who has more money than you know what to do with.